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guid: 68251d606660b2000128507d
title: There Are Consequences to Action… and to Inaction
author: ;Dennis Small
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/there-are-consequences-to-action-and-to-inaction/
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/Screen-Shot-2025-05-14-at-8.24.44-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>While most Western political leaders and mass media remain mesmerized by their own impressive inability to solve the crises created by the bankruptcy of the British geopolitical financial system—Southwest Asia, Ukraine, and India-Pakistan, among others—the dominant global trend is contrary. It is moving instead towards an emerging new security and development architecture that will put an end to 500 years of colonialism, and its evil premise that Man is little more than a sophisticated beast.</p>
<p>That dominant trend towards a new paradigm was displayed by the leaders of dozens of nations, including China and Russia, at the May 9 Moscow Victory Day celebrations, and their recommitment to destroy fascism for good, and not just temporarily defeat it as was done 80 years ago. 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. “We don’t just need export corridors, but routes that are vectors for development and unity,” Lula explained.</p>
<p>And in the West?</p>
<p>“What is most remarkable is the complete detachment of the present Establishments from considering the consequences of their actions,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche stated in her weekly Dialogue webcast. “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,” she insisted. “The biggest problem is the passivity—when you think what is at stake!”</p>
<p>There are consequences to one’s actions … and to inaction.</p>
<p>Case in point: The unspeakable horror which is being inflicted on the 2 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 on 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 “stop the 21st century atrocity to which we bear daily witness in Gaza.” Will we use “those empty words `We did all we could?’” He noted that the International Court of Justice in The Hague has again taken up the issue of genocide, and “will weigh the testimony we have shared. But it will be too late.”</p>
<p>Zepp-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 now: They are in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, illness and starvation.</p>
<p>And yet the solution is at hand. The LaRouche Oasis Plan provides a programmatic solution which will benefit <em>all</em> of the people and nations of the region—from India to the Mediterranean, from the Caucasus to the Persian Gulf—by creating plentiful freshwater 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 <em>must</em> be taken up at the June 2-4 UN conference on Palestine; it is the urgent issue that <em>will</em> be addressed at the <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/">Schiller Institute’s May 24-25 international conference</a>, as an urgent example of the kind of global policy shift required to establish a new global security and development architecture.</p>
<p>The 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.</p>

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guid: 682525356660b20001285085
title: Chilean President Meets with Xi Jinping, Strengthens Ties with China
author: ;Cynthia Rush
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<p>Chilean President Gabriel Boric was one of three Ibero-American heads of state to attend the May 12-13 China-CELAC Forum in Beijing—Brazil and Colombia were the other two—and he met this morning for what was a very positive meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping, during which they signed a number of agreements. Chile has a longstanding and very important relationship with China, which is its main trading partner. About 40% of Chile’s exports go to China. In his comments to Xi today, Boric said, “my being here is a demonstration of the conviction to multilateralism and that trade wars aren’t the way to deal with our problems or differences,” <a href="https://www.lanacion.cl/boric-se-reunio-con-xi-jinping-guerras-comerciales-no-son-manera-de-enfrentar-problemas/">La Nación</a> reported him saying.</p>
<p>“We are part of the Belt and Road Initiative and are part of global value chains that we know are appreciated in China.” This is the fourth time that Boric has met with Xi Jinping since he took office in March 2022, the last time at the November 2024 APEC meeting in Lima, Peru.</p>
<p>In remarks yesterday, reported <a href="https://www.lapoliticaonline.com/internacionales/china-celac/"><em>La Política Online</em></a>, Boric proclaimed, “this is the moment to take a qualitative leap in our economic ties with China,” and asserted that Chile has the right to decide in a sovereign matter “with whom and when to trade. Trade is the coming together of nations and we want to meet with all nations and not have to choose one or the other by imposition.” Brazilian President Lula da Silva, who has a close working relationship with Boric, has encouraged the Chilean not to get caught up in “choosing sides” in global rivalries, and to also consider the advantages of membership in the BRICS.</p>
<p>Xi is certainly aware that the Trump administration is pressuring Chile to cut back its ties with China and his embassy in Santiago has responded forcefully to recent U.S. attempts to force the Chilean government to shut down the Ventarrones Astronomical Center in the Atacama Desert which China is building together with the Chile’s Catholic University of the North. The claim is that China will use the center for military operations in space.</p>
<p>In their meeting today, Xi told Boric that his remarks yesterday “fully reflect the importance you give to relations between China and Chile, and I want to express my appreciation for this. China and Chile are firm defenders of multilateralism and of free trade.” In the international context, he explained, “strengthening cooperation between the two countries will have an even greater demonstrative effect. We’re willing to work with you to further deepen our cooperation in all areas between our two countries.” That will mean “strengthening multilateral cooperation, continuing to enrich our comprehensive strategic relationship, and jointly promoting world peace and progress.”</p>
<p>It’s an honor to participate in the China-CELAC Forum in Beijing, Boric said, “a space which renews the dialogue between the political community of Latin American and Caribbean nations and the People’s Republic of China. The path of cooperation forged with China is a great opportunity to advance from the standpoint of equality, mutual benefit and shared development.”</p>

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guid: 6825264e6660b20001285090
author: ;Dennis Small
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title:
Trump in Saudi Arabia Blasts Neo-Con Wars, but Then Threatens Iran with Inflicting &amp;#039;Maximum Pressure&amp;#039;

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<p>Trump took aim at the U.S. neo-cons who, over recent decades, have started war after war, destroyed countries, and then moved in with “nation-building” policies to reshape them to their liking. “The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called ‘nation-builders,’ ‘neo-cons,’ or ‘liberal non-profits,’ like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad,” Trump stated. “In the end, the so-called ‘nation-builders’ wrecked far more nations than they built—and the interventionists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves.”</p>
<p>“My preference will always be for peace and partnership, whenever those outcomes can be achieved. Always,” he stated.</p>
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guid: 68252acc6660b200012850a3
title: Trump Announced Lifting Sanctions Against Syria
author: ;Dennis Small
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<p>President Trump used his visit to Saudi Arabia to announce that the Caesar sanctions against Syria would be lifted, and he also met with the new President of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, in Riyadh on May 14. Al-Sharaa is a former leader of Al Qaeda, who until recently was on America’s terrorist wanted list with a $10 million bounty offered. The Assad government in Syria was overthrown in 2024, in part as a result of the long-term effect of the deadly Caesar sanctions on the country.</p>
<p>Trump in part explained the about-face by suggesting he had done it at the request of his Saudi host, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Oh, what I do for the crown prince!” he stated at a public investment forum in Riyadh.</p>
<p>Although the lifting of the Caesar sanctions is in itself good, and will help alleviate the economic plight of the Syrian population, the question remains as to the political motives behind the decision. Fox News reported the following <em>quid pro quo</em>: “President Donald Trump asked Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to fully normalize relations with Israel in exchange for sanctions relief. In a readout of the pivotal Wednesday meeting for Syria, Trump encouraged al-Sharaa to sign onto the Abraham Accords with Israel, tell all foreign terrorists to leave Syria, deport ‘Palestinian terrorists,’ help the U.S. prevent the resurgence of ISIS and assume charge of ISIS detention centers in northeast Syria.”</p>


guid: 68252d3b6660b200012850b7
title: Dilma Rousseff on the Role of the BRICS Bank
author: ;Dennis Small
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<p>The Brazilian press reported on comments by Dilma Rousseff, the president of the BRICS New Development Bank, at the May 13 China-CELAC meeting. <a href="https://www.brasil247.com/sul-global/nossa-relacao-e-necessaria-estrategica-e-baseada-na-igualdade-diz-dilma-sobre-a-uniao-china-celac">Rousseff noted</a> at the gathering of China with Latin American and Caribbean nations that “our relationship is necessary, strategic, and based on equality.”</p>
<p>As for the NDB, she said that “we share the vision of the Belt and Road Initiative: development with sovereignty and without conditionalities.” She said total NDB investments now total $140 billion, and that currently 24% of all its loans are denominated in local currencies (i.e., not dollars), and that 31% of its capitalization is non-dollar—i.e., that the bonds it issues are increasingly denominated in yuan, rupees, reals, etc. This led to “strengthening its identity as a platform for South-South cooperation,” Brasil247 noted.</p>
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title: Verbal Tension on the Rise Again Between India and Pakistan
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<p>So far there has been no return to actual fighting between India and Pakistan, but the rhetoric has escalated over the last 24 hours. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid a surprise visit to Adampur airbase, one of the country’s premier bases which is about 80 miles from the Pakistani border, where India’s sophisticated Russian-made S-400 anti-missile system is installed. <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/pm-underlines-response-to-terror-in-show-of-strength-101747161658613.html">Modi made remarks</a> with the S-400 visible in the background, putting a lie to the rumor that the Pakistanis had destroyed it in recent attacks:</p>
<p>“India’s Lakshman Rekha [red line] against terrorism is now crystal clear. India will respond strongly if hit by a terror attack and our response will be at a time of our choosing, on our conditions and in our way,” Modi stated. “The terror bosses now understand that if they even look at India, they’ll invite destruction. You [Indian military personnel] told the Pakistani army, whom the terrorists depend on, that there is no place in Pakistan where they can be safe…. Pakistan cannot match our capabilities built on cutting-edge technology,” he said, adding that “our armed forces take the wind out of nuclear blackmail.”</p>
<p>“We will not differentiate between the government sponsoring terrorism and the masterminds of terrorism,” Modi continued. “We will enter their dens and hit them without giving them an opportunity to survive.”</p>
<p>[Reuters reported](<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-says-clashes-with-neighbour-india-killed-more-than-50-2025-05-13/">https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-says-clashes-with-neighbour-india-killed-more-than-50-2025-05-13/</a>] that the Pakistani government was quick to respond. The Foreign Ministry said Islamabad categorically rejects the “provocative and inflammatory assertions” made by Modi. “At a time when international efforts are being made for regional peace and stability, this statement represents a dangerous escalation,” it said in a statement. “Pakistan remains committed to the recent ceasefire understanding and taking necessary steps towards de-escalation and regional stability,” said the ministry, adding that any future aggression will also be met with full resolve.</p>


guid: 68253b1e6660b20001285118
title: Plans Advance for South American Transcontinental Railway, During Lula Trip to China
author: ;Gretchen Small
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<p>The lead story on the homepage of Brazil’s Planning and Budget Ministry proclaimed today: “Negotiations for the Railway Project That Will Connect Ilhéus (Bahia, Brazil) to the Port of Chancay (Peru) Make Progress during Brazil’s Mission to China; the 3,000-kilometer project represents a ‘revolution', says Minister Simone Tebet during President Lula’s official visit to Beijing.” The report was written by <a href="https://agenciagov.ebc.com.br/noticias/202505/projeto-ferrovia-bioceanica-avanca-em-negociacoes-com-china-diz-simone-tebet">Agencia Brasil</a>, the government news agency.</p>
<p>Tebet, Brazil’s Minister of Planning and Budget, reported that China is most interested in the construction of the “Bioceanic Railway,” as the proposed, first-ever transcontinental rail project is known in South America. The route under discussion is to connect Ilhéus, a city on Brazil’s Atlantic coast in the northeastern state of Bahia, with the Pacific port of Chancay in Peru, passing through key regions of Brazilian agribusiness, including Matopiba, the border area between the states of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia. The route has yet to be fully mapped out, but the intention is to connect Brazil’s West-East Integration Railroad (FIOL), which is already under construction, to its Center-West Integration Railroad (FICO), and then build out the rail line into Peru. A team of Chinese rail engineers was in Brazil in April, visiting sites along the proposed route.</p>
<p>“This represents a revolution. When this project materializes, we will transform Brazil’s entire economic landscape. We are bringing development to a region that is currently considered the richest due to the quality of its soil and agribusiness, but which lacks infrastructure,” Tebet explained to Agencia Brasil. “The railway project will make Brazil much more competitive. It’s a radical change. It will directly impact regions in the North, Center-West, the interior of the Southeast and the Northeast.”</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Yemen Taught Trump Some Lessons That He'd Do Well To Apply Towards Ukraine</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://korybko.substack.com/p/yemen-taught-trump-some-lessons-that"><em>Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,</em></a></p>

<p><em><strong>The lessons from Trump’s Yemeni debacle could inform his future decisions on Ukraine...</strong></em></p>

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<p>Five New York Times (NYT) journalists collaborated to produce a detailed report earlier this week about “<a href="https://archive.is/0aTiI">Why Trump Suddenly Declared Victory Over the Houthi Militia</a>”. It’s worth reading in full if time permits, but the present piece will summarize and analyze its findings. To begin with, CENTCOM chief General Michael Kurilla proposed an eight- to -10-month campaign for degrading the Houthis’ air defenses before carrying out Israeli-like targeted assassinations, but Trump decided on 30 days instead. That’s important.</p>

<p>The US’ top regional military official already knew how numerous the Houthis’ air defenses were and how long it would take to seriously damage them, which shows that the Pentagon already considered Houthi-controlled North Yemen to be <a href="https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/houthi-controlled-north-yemen-is-poised-to-become-a-regional-power-if-nothing-changes">a regional power</a>, while Trump wanted to avoid a protracted war. It’s little wonder then that the US failed to establish air superiority during the first month, which is why it lost several MQ-9 Reaper drones by then and exposed one of its aircraft carriers to continued threats.</p>

<p>The $1 billion in munitions that were expended during that period widened preexisting divisions within the administration over whether this bombing campaign was worth the mounting costs. New Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John Caine was concerned that this could drain resources away from the Asia-Pacific. Seeing as how the Trump Administration’s grand strategic goal is to “Pivot (back) to Asia” for more muscularly containing China, this viewpoint was likely decisive in Trump’s final calculations.</p>

<p>Oman reportedly provided the “perfect offramp” for him by proposing to his envoy Steve Witkoff, who was visiting them as part of <a href="https://katehon.com/en/article/iranian-us-talks">the US’ nuclear talks with Iran</a>, that the US could stop bombing the Houthis while they’ll stop targeting American ships but not ships that they deem helpful to Israel. This draws attention to that country’s outsized diplomatic role in regional affairs, but it also shows that the US was hitherto unsure of how to end its campaign in a face-saving way despite already realizing that it failed.</p>

<p><strong>Two pathways were considered:</strong></p>

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	<p>ramping up operations for another month, carrying out a “freedom of navigation” exercise, and declaring victory if the Houthis didn’t fire on them;</p>
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	<p>or continuing the campaign while strengthening the capacity of local Yemeni allies to start another offensive in the North. </p>
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</ol><p>Both were reportedly scrapped in favor of Trump’s sudden victory announcement after another US jet fell off of an aircraft carrier, a US attack killed dozens of migrants in Yemen, and the Houthis hit Ben Gurion Airport.</p>

<p><strong>Five conclusions can be drawn from the NYT’s report. </strong></p>

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<p><em>For starters, Houthi-controlled North Yemen is already a regional power and has been so for some time, the status of which they achieved despite the Gulf coalition’s previous years-long bombing campaign and ongoing partial blockade. This impressive feat speaks to their resilience and the effectiveness of the strategies that they’ve implemented. North Yemen’s mountainous geography indisputably played a role in this, but it wasn’t the sole factor.</em></p>

<p><em>The second conclusion is that Trump’s decision to authorize a very time-limited bombing campaign was therefore doomed from the get-go. He either wasn’t fully informed of the fact that North Yemen had already become a regional power, perhaps due to military officials self-censoring for fear of getting fired if they upset him, or he had ulterior motives in having the US bomb them for only a brief time. In any case, there was no way that the Houthis were going to be destroyed in just several months’ time.</em></p>

<p><em>Optics are important for every administration, and Trump’s second one prioritizes them more than any other in recent memory, yet the third conclusion is that he still beat a hasty retreat once the strategic risks started spiraling and the costs began piling up instead of doubling down in defiance. This shows that ego- and legacy-related interests don’t always determine his policy formulations. Its relevance is that no one can therefore say for sure that he won’t cut and run from Ukraine <a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/third-party-mediation-between-russia">if peace talks collapse</a>.</em></p>

<p><em>Building upon the above, the Trump Administration’s acceptance of Oman’s unsolicited proposal that led to the “perfect offramp” shows that it’ll listen to proposals from friendly countries for defusing conflicts in which the US has become embroiled, which could apply towards Ukraine. The three Gulf states that Trump is visiting this week have all played roles in either hosting talks or facilitating exchanges between Russia and Ukraine so it’s possible that they’ll share some peace proposals for breaking the impasse.</em></p>

<p><em>And finally, the China factor looms over everything that the US does nowadays, ergo one of the reported reasons why Trump suddenly ended his unsuccessful bombing campaign against the Houthis after being informed by his top brass that it was wasting valuable munitions that would be better sent to Asia. Likewise, Trump might be convinced by similar arguments with regard to the strategic costs of defiantly doubling down in support of Ukraine if peace talks collapse, which the Gulf states might convey to him.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Connecting the lessons from Trump’s Yemeni debacle with his ongoing efforts to end the Ukrainian Conflict, it’s possible that he might at first instinctively double down in support of Ukraine if peace talks collapse only to soon thereafter be dissuaded by his top brass and/or friendly countries.</strong> Of course, it would be best for him to simply cut his country’s losses now instead of continuing to add to them, but his increasingly emotional posts about Putin hint that he might blame him and overreact if talks collapse.</p>

<p>It's therefore more important than ever that peace-loving countries which have influence with the US immediately share whatever creative diplomatic proposals they might have in mind for breaking the impasse between Russia and Ukraine.</p>

<p><strong>Trump is creeping towards a Yemeni-like debacle in Ukraine, albeit one with potentially nuclear stakes given Russia’s strategic arsenal, but there’s still time to avert it if the “perfect offramp” appears and he’s convinced that accepting it would assist his “Pivot (back) to Asia”.</strong></p>
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<p><span><em><strong>LOOKBACK: This article was first published on 21 January 2021</strong></em></span></p>
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<p><strong>The following is based on the testimony of Viktor Kravchenko, who lived through the Stallinist Purges of the 1930s in the former Soviet Union.</strong></p>
<p>The realisation that the foundation of his most fervent beliefs was actually a cover for brutality, confronted Victor Kravchenko on his first excursion into the Ukranian countryside on official work of the communist party.</p>
<p>Kravchenko was a Ukranian engineering student who had moved to the city before the Bolshevik revolution really took a grip on the countryside. During the collectivisation of the farms he had been studying engineering in the Ukranian city of Kharkov and, whilst he was studying metallurgy, he also had deeply imbibed (through the mandated study prescribed ) the history and ideas of Lenin, Marx and Stallin.  The Bolshevik drilling turned out starry-eyed believers in the great soviet project, and Kravchenko was a fervent believer.</p>
<p>In 1933,  as a loyal party member, he was appointed to “mobilize party brigades to work in the villages” to collect the harvest.</p>
<p>The party youth were rounded up and given an unnerving war-like speech by a member of the party’s central committee. It was a strange speech considering all he had learnt about the fraternity and good will that existed amongst the people under the communist system. It was in his opinion odd that his communist party comrades, who existed to protect the oppressed, seemed to be so belligerent towards the peasantry.</p>
<p>They were ordered to go into the villages and: “assume your duties with a feeling of the strictest party responsibility; without whimpering, without rotten liberalism. Throw your bourgeois humanitarianism out of the window and act like bolsheviks worthy of comrade Stalin. Beat down the Kulak agent wherever he raises his head. It’s war – it’s them or us! The last decayed remnant of capitalist farming must be wiped out at any cost!”</p>
<p>Over the next two years, the Soviets wiped out 5 million of those “Kulaks.”</p>
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<p><span aria-hidden="true" data-sanitized-class="css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0">A landowning family on its way to exile. Photo</span> <span data-sanitized-class="css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90"><span data-sanitized-class="css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0">Credit…</span>From <em>Red Famine</em></span></p>
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<p>Kravchenko recalls the type of soviet official who executed these purges. If they weren’t sadists, they were zealots who believed that the struggle must succeed at all costs. When it came to counting the damage and the bodies, the latter were worse than the sadists.</p>
<p>He accounts one conversation with a party official in the second year of the harvest. He had done very well in the village bringing in a large harvest which allowed the villagers to feed themselves on the excess. A party official congratulated him but took him aside and whispered: “A ruthless struggle is going on between the peasantry and our regime. It’s a struggle to the death. This year was a test of our strength and their endurance. It took a famine to show them who was master here. It cost millions of lives, but the collective farm system is here to stay. We‘ve won the war”.</p>
<p>All over southern Russia the famine raged. The international papers were silent (even the <em>New York Times,</em> who under Walter Duranty vehemently denied there was a famine) though the whole country knew it. Kravchenko says that party members “denounced as anti-soviet rumours what we knew as towering facts.”</p>
<p>Everyone who witnessed the Kulak purges knew that to show signs of fading faith would mark you out for the next purge.</p>
<p>The peasant farmers were the first big purged of the 30s. Kravchenko’s time would come.</p>

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<p><em>Hungry Children on a Ukraine street during the famine, 1933. Photo Credit: Granger Collection</em></p>
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<p>The first internal party purge in 1933 was a routine thing; a cleaning out of the non-committed. Purge commissions were set up throughout the country. Every factory and college had its appointed session with the purge commission. In every institution all over the country little metal boxes were installed in which anonymous accusations and denunciations could be dropped in. It was open season on everyone, and a subdued sense of panic was endemic.</p>
<p>Attendance for the weeks of the purge was obligatory for all party members, and it became a nerve wracking circus where one minute you could be denouncing an accused friend and the next minute be under the scrutiny of the inquisition.</p>
<p>The accused would be asked to recount their life and their dedication to the party. Thick files were compiled on all the accused where their past statements and history of associates were raked over. Anything “suspicious” (such as membership of another political party) would be in those files so it was advisable to confess all and beg forgiveness during this testimony.</p>
<p>If anything was left out it would be brought up as a conspiracy to deceive. The crowd, smelling blood, would quickly turn on the victim.</p>
<p>“Once the audience sensed that the purgee was in disfavour or actually ‘on the skids,’ it jumped on him and trampled him without pity; especially his frightened friends and associates hastened to join in the verbal lynching to protect themselves,” he wrote in his memoir ‘I Chose Freedom’.</p>
<p>In the purge Kravchenko attended, it came out that comrade Sanin once signed a petition of the Trotskyist party. The crowd smells blood, and once close colleagues scramble to throw accusations at the hapless man.  “The closer their association with him the more eager they seem to incriminate him.”</p>
<p>Another accused was an exemplar of soviet industry. A college professor, he had humble working class beginnings, starting work in a factory at the age of eight. He had graduated to a lathe turner, a foreman, joined the komsomol and then the party, before being selected to study engineering. His wife, he said, was a nurse who was very active in the party.</p>
<p>The crowd approved so far.</p>
<p>“Tell me, did you register your marriage or not?” asked one of his interrogators.</p>
<p>He hesitated. The crowd came to attention.</p>
<p>Turns out he had married in a church, and no matter what excuses he gave he was decried as a superstitious, religious, fanatic. His dedication to the cause of bolshevism was questioned. His party membership was removed and he was ejected in disgrace.</p>
<p>Expelled party members frequently never turned up for work or school again. Some committed suicide, some were arrested immediately.</p>
<p>Kravchenko faced down his accusers, but this was only a dress rehearsal for the real purges.</p>

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<p><em>Stalin ordered the murder or removal of millions of his own countrymen</em></p>
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<p>These purges which were conducted between 1934 and 1938 were stage managed mass murders which cleaned out the old revolutionary party members and many more besides. By the end of the purges more than 1 million people had been executed and more than half of the communist party (1.8 million) had been removed and murdered or sent to the gulags. In a sense they were the removal of the past from the histories that Stalin would re-write.</p>
<p>Frequently the one prosecuting the purge on one day would become the prosecuted within a matter of weeks.</p>
<p>George Orwell later described this strategy in his greatest work of fiction: “Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past.”</p>
<p>Kravchenko was director of  a pipe rolling plant during these purges. People would start disappearing from work never to show up again. Fear of the secret police and informers was rife. Factory meetings frequently descended into witch hunts. As the factories lost skilled workers and engineers, efficiency and production suffered. The state terror increased and a new enemy was declared: the “saboteurs” and “wreckers” – supposedly scheming engineers, managers, and technical staff, who secretly harboured capitalist sentiment.</p>
<p>More engineers and managers, in particular the non party competent ones, were taken to the torture cells of the NKVD (The Russian Secret Police).</p>
<p>The comic-tragedy of Russia continued to throw up cruel farces. An initiative known as Stakhanovism, based on a patently false story of superhuman endeavours by a miner named Stakhanov (if Stakhanov can do it every man can do it), sought to extract more productivity from workers. Workers in every plant were brought into meetings where they “volunteered” to work harder and produce more output.</p>
<p>When these targets weren’t met blame was assigned. Arrests followed.</p>
<p>Party men and union lackeys – virtue signallers – were first to cast blame and denounce “spoilers of Stakhanovism,” when their haste to increase output caused machinery to fail. Wherever there was an accusation the NKVD eagerly followed up.</p>
<p>Despite the propaganda which blared from the media of enthusiastic workers eagerly jumping to the cause, Stakhanovism drove wedges of resentment between work crews. It rewarded the so-called productive crews and paid them off with the wages robbed from the “unproductive”.</p>
<p>Each Stakhanovite “achievment” was broadcast and celebrated in staged theatrical announcements. In the factories workers were submitted to lectures from party officials on the socialist merits of the new Stakhanovite zeal. Workers, we were told, voted to accept new quota challenges, clamouring to outdo all previous exertions.</p>
<p>The truth was that the unfortunate workers silently accepted the inevitable and voted as they were told to. The alternative was an appointment with the NKVD and the Gulags.</p>
<p>In Kravchenko’s plant, the sick ploy followed the script in set stages.</p>
<p>First there was an all-factory gathering of Party, technical and trade union leaders and “activists” from the rank and file. Their responsibility was “to ‘educate’ the working masses to an ‘understanding’ and acceptance of the new quotas”.</p>
<p>Next Stalin’s speech in praise of Stakhanovism was read out. With serious faces these leaders explained that the low norms the workers were accustomed to were: “an insult to the socialist zeal and productive genius in our party and factory.”</p>
<p>Ambitious communists, keen for recognition and advancement, used the opportunity to demonstrate their conformity, and piled in with harangues of their fellow workers using the same clichéd political slogans as employed by the party and the media.</p>
<p>Kravchenko tells that in this charged atmosphere of fear and intimidation “a resolution proposing steep increases in quotas was read out and approved ‘unanimously.”</p>
<p>Kravchenko recalls the meeting at his sub-plant.</p>
<p>“Listless workers sat glumly, silently, scarcely interested. They clapped mechanically at every mention of comrade Stalin’s name, and when exhorted to vote, voted unanimously to accept the new quotas.</p>
<p>“Who is opposed?” the union chairman asked.</p>
<p>There was silence.</p>
<p>Suddenly a woman voice exclaimed: “Comrade chairman, Kiryushkin here didn’t vote”</p>
<p>For the first time the meeting actually came to life. The jingo and bluster, and the listless acceptance was replaced with real drama. As Kravchenko said “there was a lion amongst the rabbits.”</p>
<p>Kiryushkin spoke what was on the mind of all the silent majority.</p>
<p>“Why should I vote? One way or the other the norms will be passed. It’s my job to work and I work, what else do you want? I should show my hand, all right here is my hand,” he said raising a calloused hand. “My wife and children” he continued “expect me to make some more money and this means I will make even less.”</p>
<p>A party lackey shouted out “He’s not class conscious,” but there was little enthusiasm for the charade, and the motion was passed with a great deal less lustre than hoped for.</p>
<p>Kravchenko then made a speech on the technical aspects of meeting the new quotas. He rehashed empty words which he knew were full of lies and deception; making claims that the new commitments were both possible and fair.</p>
<p>The meeting came to an end with an air of submission, but according to the district papers and radio it was an overflowing success. They reported that “Amidst thunderous enthusiasm the proletarians of the Nikopol Metallurgical Combinat demanded yesterday that the outmoded norms be revised.”</p>
<p>Kiryushkin was lucky to get away with his defiance. Questioning the narrative was a dangerous step to take; it usually put you to the front of the purge.</p>
<p>The purge reached everywhere. Nobody was too powerful or too lowly to be purged. The show trials of 1936 – 38 were a stunning demonstration of political power and psychological manipulation. These were the statements to the world that Stalin and the politburo were masters of all Russia, from the most secret thoughts of the mind to the acts of the most influential citizens; all was controlled by the party. The state was the new God; one with utterly malicious intent.</p>
<p>In the midst of all this Terror – hunger, massed imprisonment, mass deportations and confiscations, cattle trains transporting millions of prisoners to slave labour camps – Russia formally announced its adoption of “the world’s most democratic constitution” in November 1936.</p>
<p>It was just after this that Kravchenko’s ordeal with the secret police started. It began with a denunciation by a fellow party member at a party meeting. The charge was that all of his former colleagues had been arrested, and as his accuser said “I wonder whether that is accidental?”</p>
<p>Guilt by association; that was the charge and it would lead to a year long ordeal in the offices of the NKVD.  All he had to do to make it end was sign a statement containing a few denunciations.</p>
<p>He refused to do it, and somehow lived to tell the tale.</p>
<p>Victor Kravchenko’s memoir <em>I Chose Freedom</em> was first published in America in 1946. It has been reissued 73 times in English and has been translated into French, German, and Spanish, as well as in his native Ukranian.</p>
<p>He died on the 25th February 1966</p>

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<p><em>“Wall of sorrow” at the first exhibition of the victims of Stalinism in Moscow, 19 November 1988</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 new Gaza-related spat is now raging between the leaders of France and Israel, amid new reports that famine is hitting the Palestinian population, which is said to be impacting 500,000 people.</p>

<p>French President Emmanuel Macron has called the military policies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "shameful" and "unacceptable" in a fresh interview with a national broadcaster. </p>

<p><strong>"What the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is doing is unacceptable,"</strong> Macron began in a Gaza segment of <a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/article/2025/05/13/macron-to-outline-plan-for-rest-of-his-term-in-a-two-hour-tv-show_6741220_5.html">the interview</a>. <strong>"There is no water, no medicine, the wounded cannot get out, the doctors cannot get in. What he is doing is shameful,"</strong> he continued.</p>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/macronandnet.jpg?itok=6k9DbJAH" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/macronandnet.jpg?itok=6k9DbJAH"><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="ebeb0ea1-d402-43fb-a5f5-2f436231272e" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="334" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/macronandnet.jpg?itok=6k9DbJAH" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>Via Associated Press</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p>He then interestingly appeared to leverage recent reports saying that Trump-Netanyahu relations have reached a low point, and that the White House is fed up with Bib.</p>

<p>"<strong>We need the United States. President Trump has the levers</strong>. I have had tough words with Prime Minister Netanyahu. I got angry, but they [Israel] don't depend on us, they depend on American weapons," Macron said. </p>

<p>Macron here seemed to be calling on Washington to essentially put the Netanyahu government in its place, as Trump has sidelined Tel Aviv on everything from the Houthi ceasefire to gaining the freedom of Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander. And <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/30704">more</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>"My job is to do everything I can to make it stop," Macron said, adding that the <strong>possibility of revisiting the EU trade cooperation agreements with Israel is on the table</strong>.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Never one to back down from a diplomatic war of words, Netanyahu hit back on Wednesday, going so far as to say that <strong>Macron stands with Hamas</strong>.</p>

<p>"Macron has once again chosen to stand with a murderous terrorist organization and echo its despicable propaganda, <strong>accusing Israel of blood libels</strong>," <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/05/14/netanyahu-accuses-macron-of-despicable-support-of-hamas/">a statement </a>from the Israeli prime minister's office said.</p>

<p>"Instead of supporting the Western democratic camp fighting the Islamist terrorist organizations and calling for the release of the hostages, Macron is once again demanding that Israel surrender and reward terrorism," the blistering Netanyahu statement added.</p>

<p>The NY Times has issued an alarming report this week <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250514095619/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/world/middleeast/gaza-famine-starvation-israel.html">which said</a> "Some Israeli military officials have <strong>privately concluded that Palestinians in Gaza face widespread starvation </strong>unless aid deliveries are restored within weeks, according to three Israeli defense officials familiar with conditions in the enclave."</p>

<p>The report continued by saying "Israeli military officers who monitor humanitarian conditions in Gaza have warned their commanders in recent days that unless the blockade is lifted quickly, many areas of the enclave will <strong>likely run out of enough food to meet minimum daily nutritional needs</strong>, according to the defense officials."</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Shocking statement from French President Macron: Netanyahu’s blocking of aid to Gaza is shameful. • What is happening in Gaza is an unacceptable and horrific humanitarian tragedy that must be stopped. • Pressure must be put on Israel <a href="https://t.co/D4efgGNWAu">pic.twitter.com/D4efgGNWAu</a></p>
— Furkan Gözükara (@GozukaraFurkan) <a href="https://twitter.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1922414141492392039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Currently a US-backed aid plan is being worked on, which is said to be 'independent' amid accusations that Hamas has been stealing and reselling inbound aid. Others have accused Israel of blocking it, in pursuit of a total siege policy.</p>

<p>What's clear is that Netanyahu is increasingly in the political hotseat not just at home, but on the international stage as well - where his closest ally the United States has appeared to grow somewhat cool on the previously enthusiastic support and relationship.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">"Racism Is Only White" – Anti-White Art Installation Goes Viral, Sparks Outrage</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://rmx.news/article/racism-is-only-white-anti-white-art-installation-goes-viral-sparks-outrage-at-frances-university-of-grenoble/"><em>Via Remix News,</em></a></p>

<p><strong>A number of anti-White slogans were used in an art installation at the University of Grenoble in France for “Equality Month,” with widespread outrage leading the president of the university to demand they be taken down. </strong></p>

<p>The inscriptions repeatedly attack “White males” and claim that only White people are guilty of racism, with the entire scandal going viral and garnering tens of thousands of comments and millions of views on French social media.</p>

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<p><strong>There were approximately 40 such artistic inscriptions, with four of them deemed especially offensive towards White people, which read:</strong></p>

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<p><em>1. The world is in pain. That’s normal, it is ruled by white men.</em></p>

<p><em>2. Earth is monochrome like a rainbow, racism is only white.</em></p>

<p><em>3. It’s the work of the Arabs that built Versailles.</em></p>

<p><em>4. In chess, as in life, whites have a head start.</em></p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">🇫🇷🚨 Incredible anti-White racism from France's University of Grenoble.<br><br>
Four glass plaques installations read:<br><br>
1. The world is in pain. That's normal, it is ruled by white men.<br>
2. Earth is monochrome like a rainbow, racism is only white.<br>
3. It's the work of the Arabs that… <a href="https://t.co/tmjbfrLSlE">pic.twitter.com/tmjbfrLSlE</a></p>
— Remix News &amp; Views (@RMXnews) <a href="https://twitter.com/RMXnews/status/1922571386083545547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Other slogans were slightly less controversial, but still deemed problematic, such as:<em><strong> “I would like to overthrow the French government.”</strong></em><br><br>
The slogans are affixed to the glass walls of the affixed amphitheater gallery in the Pierre Mendès France building at the university’s campus, and were commissioned from the artist Petite Poissone. It is unclear how much he was paid to produce the racist slogans.</p>

<p><strong>The conservative student union, UNI Grenoble, denounced the messages, saying they represent “anti-white propaganda.”</strong></p>

<p><em>“These unacceptable messages encourage racism against white people and spread the woke idea that we are in a systematically racist society,” said UNI national delegate Yvenn Le Coz, who requested the university immediately take down the artworks.</em></p>

<p>After the UNI alerted President Yassine Lakhnech, who claimed he only became aware of the inscriptions despite them already being up for two months. The inscriptions have become a part of a national news story, with some of the biggest outlets in the country now questioning how such racist inscriptions were installed. <a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/l-universite-de-grenoble-retire-en-urgence-des-oeuvres-d-art-conspuant-les-males-blancs-20250513">Le Figaro</a> questioned the president, Lakhnech, who said the messages “do not reflect the university’s positions or values.” He claimed they would now be removed, but only the ones that caused a problem.</p>

<p><strong>A press release has gone out and noted that the artwork was given “sufficient oversight.”</strong> However, university students are claiming that 10 inscriptions out of 50 were already reviewed and deemed inappropriate, which, if true, means university staff saw all the messages beforehand and allowed them to go up.</p>

<p><strong>The artist, a 42-year-old Grenoble resident, has numerous anti-White and anti-male comments and artworks on her Instagram account.·</strong></p>

<p>Anti-white racism at French and Western universities has been commonplace in the last decades, as Remix News has reported.</p>

<p>In 2021, Remix News <a href="https://rmx.news/article/prestigious-french-university-faces-accusations-of-racism-against-whites/">wrote</a> that the elite Paris Institute of Political Studies, also known as Sciences Po Paris, is experiencing a growing rise in racist, de-colonial, and anti-White ideologies. Many conferences, research papers, and courses are under the influence and supervision of small but aggressive ideological militant groups.</p>

<p><a href="https://rmx.news/article/racism-is-only-white-anti-white-art-installation-goes-viral-sparks-outrage-at-frances-university-of-grenoble/"><em>Read more here...</em></a></p>
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title: French Minister To Meet Crypto Firms After Kidnapping Attempt
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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://cointelegraph.com/news/france-crypto-security-talks-kidnap-paymium"><em>Authored by Adrian Zmudzinski via CoinTelegraph.com,</em></a></p>

<p>The French interior minister reportedly <strong>plans to meet cryptocurrency professionals in the aftermath of a violent kidnapping attempt </strong>on the family of a crypto exchange executive in Paris.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/0193087f-516f-70b5-8e4b-7fffa325.jpg?itok=qtdQewBG" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/0193087f-516f-70b5-8e4b-7fffa325.jpg?itok=qtdQewBG"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2b94add4-60bb-4360-ab46-6c3a04eaa54d" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="333" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/0193087f-516f-70b5-8e4b-7fffa325.jpg?itok=qtdQewBG" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>According to a May 14 France24 <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250514-france-summons-cryptocurrency-businesses-after-kidnappings">report</a>, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau has invited crypto professionals to meet him after a brazen <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-exchange-ceo-daughter-fights-kidnappers-paris">attempt to kidnap the daughter and grandson </a>of Pierre Noizat, the co-founder and CEO of French crypto exchange Paymium.<br><br><em><strong>”I will assemble businesspeople working in cryptocurrencies, and we have a few of those in France, at the interior ministry to work with them on their security,” </strong></em>Retailleau reportedly told the Europe 1/CNews broadcaster.</p>

<p>On May 13, three masked men attacked Noizat’s daughter while she was walking in Paris’ 11th district with a man and her son. The attackers tried to force Noizat’s daughter and her son into a white van.</p>

<p><strong>Passersby intervened, with one scaring the assailants while brandishing a fire extinguisher before throwing it at them as they fled.</strong> The event is now being investigated by local authorities, with the vehicle used being found abandoned nearby on the same day.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">En plein Paris, un homme a été violenté par des individus cagoulés, habillés tout en noir. Ils tentaient de l'enlever. Un homme a surgi, extincteur à la main, pour les faire fuir. →<a href="https://t.co/P0qV6PR40v">https://t.co/P0qV6PR40v</a> <a href="https://t.co/9f4r2Gi7ho">pic.twitter.com/9f4r2Gi7ho</a></p>
— Le Figaro (@Le_Figaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/Le_Figaro/status/1922294805800857913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
<h2>Growing risk for cryptoholders</h2>

<p>Jameson Lopp, a cypherpunk and co-founder of self-custodial firm <strong>Casa, has created a <a href="https://github.com/jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks">list</a> on GitHub recording dozens of offline crypto robberies, with 22 incidents of in-person crypto-related theft so far this year.</strong> Many in the crypto industry highlight that anonymity is the only way to effectively protect holders and their close circle against so-called “$5 wrench attacks.”</p>

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<p><em>$5 wrench attack explanation. Source: </em><a href="https://xkcd.com/538/"><em>XKCD</em></a></p>

<p><strong>Lopp’s list is likely undercounting the total number of attacks targeting people over their involvement in the crypto industry. </strong>A University of Cambridge study in September 2024 <a href="https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/d988e10f-b751-408a-a79e-54f2518b3e70">found</a> that these so-called “wrench attacks” are often underreported due to revictimization fears.</p>

<h2>France saw its fair share of cases</h2>

<p>Paris is also no stranger to these attacks. Earlier this month, Paris police <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/kidnapped-dad-crypto-entrepreneur-freed-ransom-attempt">freed the father</a> of a crypto entrepreneur who was held for several days in connection with a 7 million euro ($7.8 million) kidnapping plot.</p>

<p>At the start of this year, David Balland, co-founder of leading crypto hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger, was <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/ledger-co-founder-david-balland-freed-after-kidnapping-in-france">abducted from his home in central France</a>. He was held captive until a police operation on the night of Jan. 22 secured his release.</p>
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<p>Une des plus anciennes guérillas au monde dépose les armes. Après plus de 40 ans de luttes sanglantes contre l'armée turque, le PKK, le Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan, fait le pari de la paix et renonce au rêve d'un pays. Il s’agit d’un tournant majeur pour la Turquie, un pays dont 20 % de la population est kurde. Mais la suite des choses demeure incertaine. Le succès du processus de paix dépend largement du président Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Le chroniqueur François Brousseau analyse les retombées possibles de cette décision historique du PKK.</p>

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title: A Third Of Americans Worry About Manipulated News
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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><strong>Almost half </strong>of the people surveyed in the <a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/760/united-states/">United States</a> as part of a Statista Consumer Insights survey <strong><a href="https://www.statista.com/topics/1536/media-use/">actively try to keep up to date</a> with world events and politics. </strong></p>

<p>However,<a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34390/survey-news-attitutes-gci/"> as Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports,</a> about <strong>a third of survey participants also fear </strong>that news in the so-called mainstream media is being <strong>manipulated</strong>. </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/images_40.jpg?itok=G-Bk8vWs" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/images_40.jpg?itok=G-Bk8vWs"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="1cf4f96a-c3dd-4f9d-b91e-2bc927608ff8" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="286" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/images_40.jpg?itok=G-Bk8vWs" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><strong>Americans' trust in the media is therefore under pressure.</strong></p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34390/survey-news-attitutes-gci/" title="Infographic: A Third of Americans Worries About Manipulated News | Statista"><img alt="Infographic: A Third of Americans Worries About Manipulated News | Statista" height="499" src="https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/34390.jpeg" width="499"></a> </p>

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

<p><strong>The widespread use of AI to create images and text or to manipulate them has recently added another layer to the mistrust in news consumers already have.</strong></p>

<p>Statista data shows that 28 percent of respondents in the U.S. want to know whether the news they consume was generated using artificial intelligence. </p>

<p>The survey data also shows that <strong>around 42 percent are turning away from print media or their online presence, preferring to consume their news audiovisually.</strong></p>
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title: Ce à quoi il faut s’attendre du budget de l’Ontario
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<p>L'Ontario avait prévu un retour à l’équilibre budgétaire en 2026-2027, un objectif qui pourrait être repoussé.</p>

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<p><strong><em>La celebrazione russa del Giorno della vittoria sui nazisti, tenutasi a Mosca il 9 maggio, servirà a illuminare le vere divisioni politiche del pianeta.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>Poiché la maggior parte degli occidentali è abituata a dividere la politica tra destra e sinistra, la celebrazione russa del Giorno della Vittoria sul nazismo, tenutasi a Mosca il 9 maggio, servirà a mettere in luce le reali divisioni politiche del pianeta.</p>
<p>L’evento più significativo dell’80° anniversario della sconfitta del nazismo è senza dubbio la cancellazione della Russia da parte dell’Europa occidentale. Poiché la propaganda ha decretato che Putin è il nuovo Hitler, la Russia stessa deve essere cancellata, anche se ha svolto un ruolo cruciale nella vittoria sull’Asse e anche se la guerra è costata ai sovietici un numero incomparabile di soldati. Se <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/mar/23/russia-protests-vodka-mustard-poutine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">persino Dostoevskij</a> è stato cancellato dall’Europa occidentale, cancellare l’impresa di Stalin è una questione di poco conto. Nel cortile VIP degli Stati Uniti, l’Europa occidentale, la natura geopolitica della nuova divisione è più visibile: da un lato ci sono gli europeisti di Bruxelles, che vogliono gli Stati Uniti di Biden, e dall’altro la Russia e tutto ciò che è anche solo lontanamente simpatizzante (compresi i BRICS, nonostante tutte le incongruenze interne).</p>
<p>La natura politica interna di questa divisione è più difficile da identificare, considerando l’Europa occidentale. L’obiettivo principale degli anti-UE è la fine dell’immigrazione senza restrizioni. Essere “di estrema destra”, “antidemocratico” e, forse, “agente russo” significa essere anti-immigrazione. Tuttavia, l’agenda doganale, che mobilita molto nelle Americhe, è lasciata da parte dall’estrema destra europea. L’AfD è guidata da una lesbica che ha una relazione stabile con una donna immigrata, e non sembra esserci una sola anima che se ne preoccupi. Nelle Americhe, un leader antisistema con questo profilo è inimmaginabile (tranne, forse, in Argentina, che è piuttosto europea in questo senso). Si può quindi affermare che l’Europa è diventata molto liberale in termini di costumi, tanto che il conservatorismo sociale non è una questione rilevante nel panorama politico-partitico.</p>
<p>L’ambito in cui l’Europa non è diventata molto liberale è quello della spesa sociale. L’Europa ha ancora Stati sociali. Poiché gli Stati sociali sono difficili da mantenere in un’economia sempre più deindustrializzata, con un tasso di natalità in calo e senza una moneta nazionale, non è difficile capire come un discorso come quello di Milei possa trovare spazio in Europa. Inoltre, l’Argentina ci insegna che uno Stato stupido, la cui burocrazia impone il wokeismo, può generare un sentimento anarchico. Non sorprende quindi che i partiti “di estrema destra” anti-immigrazione siano spesso liberali in termini economici, come il Chega portoghese. D’altra parte, la sinistra europea è diventata così liberale che i tentativi di costruire un’alternativa economica sono piccoli o marginali. L’importante partito di Tsipras proviene dalla Grecia indebolita; nella potente Germania, Sahra Wagenknecht ha fondato il proprio partito e non è stata rieletta.</p>
<p>Il “grande” Stato della sinistra woke, che spende per mantenere i tossicodipendenti nelle strade e gli immigrati clandestini nel Paese, è al servizio del neoliberismo: da un lato, maggiore è la spesa pubblica, maggiore è il debito; e, di conseguenza, maggiore è il controllo da parte delle organizzazioni sovranazionali controllate dai finanzieri. D’altra parte, più immigrati ci sono, maggiore è l’offerta di manodopera a basso costo. Così lo Stato si indebolisce, spende male ed è odiato, mentre un settore privato selezionato guadagna dai suoi debiti e dalla manodopera a basso costo.</p>
<p>Passiamo ora a un altro cortile degli Stati Uniti, il mio Brasile. Credo che da qui si possa vedere più facilmente che la divisione tra destra e sinistra sta crollando e, ancora una volta, non c’è posto migliore della Russia per dividere le acque.</p>
<p>Lula ha deciso di andare a Mosca per partecipare alle celebrazioni del Giorno della Vittoria. Questo è bastato ai media liberali di destra per considerarlo una vergogna per la diplomazia.</p>
<p>In Brasile, essere di destra significa generalmente essere anti-PT (anti-Partito dei Lavoratori, il partito di Lula), quindi c’è tutto lo spazio per ripetere le stesse idee di Macron ed essere considerati “democratici di destra”. Basta insultare il PT e condannare la corruzione. La destra liberale in Brasile sostiene incondizionatamente Israele e l’Ucraina. Quando la Russia è entrata in Ucraina, Bolsonaro era ancora al potere e la destra liberale ha fatto un gran chiasso perché non voleva sanzionare la Russia, i cui fertilizzanti sono essenziali per l’agricoltura brasiliana. Sebbene Bolsonaro abbia dato molto potere a un banchiere apertamente liberale, che era il suo ministro dell’Economia, i liberali lo hanno comunque condannato per essere un leader populista. A volte penso che la mancanza di carisma sia un requisito essenziale del liberalismo.</p>
<p>Anche Lula dà tutto e anche di più ai liberali. La sua ribellione finora è consistita nel già citato viaggio a Mosca e in una dichiarazione contro Netanyahu che non ha avuto conseguenze pratiche (avrebbe potuto davvero ritirare il Brasile dal suo status di membro osservatore dell’IHRA, che fa pressione per la censura dei critici del sionismo). Tuttavia, le azioni dell’amministrazione Lula hanno molto deluso i suoi vicini bolivariani. Il Brasile ha posto il veto all’ingresso del Venezuela nel BRICS, ha chiesto minuti per riconoscere la rielezione di Maduro (che è apertamente filo-russo e anti-statunitense) e ha prontamente riconosciuto la rielezione di Daniel Noboa in Ecuador, nonostante le accuse di frode da parte del candidato di sinistra. Come gli europeisti di Bruxelles, Lula è nostalgico dell’era Biden. I giorni in cui era il beniamino di Caracas sono ormai lontani.</p>
<p>Sia la destra che la sinistra sono divise. Da un lato, Bolsonaro è perseguitato dall’establishment senza il sostegno di molti politici liberali di destra che lui stesso ha contribuito a eleggere. Dall’altro, la sinistra è divisa sulle questioni globali. La politica estera di Lula è stata generalmente più filo-statunitense che filo-BRICS. Sul piano interno, la sinistra woke, largamente finanziata da ONG e fondazioni del Nord Atlantico, ha preferito tacere sulla questione palestinese. Questo fatto demoralizzante, combinato con i tagli al bilancio del NED e dell’USAID, ha portato a critiche forti e chiare nei confronti del wokeismo all’interno della sinistra, dopo circa dieci anni di autocensura. Al momento, il partito di Lula sta per scegliere il suo presidente: il candidato favorito è andato all’ambasciata degli Stati Uniti; un altro, per contrastarlo, è andato all’<a href="https://www.metropoles.com/brasil/disputa-no-pt-falcao-visita-embaixada-palestina-edinho-foi-a-dos-eua" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ambasciata palestinese</a>.</p>
<p>Oltre alle ONG woke, in Brasile ci sono anche ONG di destra, la cui icona più popolare è il defunto leader di culto Olavo de Carvalho (ho già spiegato <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/10/20/greatest-brazilian-neoconservative-phenomenon-in-nutshell/">qui</a> cos’è l’Olavismo, un movimento che include la diffusione della propaganda neoconservatrice). Questo gruppo ha guadagnato posizioni nell’amministrazione Bolsonaro, ma si è dimostrato generalmente incapace di governare e ora si dedica a ridicolizzare lo stesso Bolsonaro, un’azione che contribuisce indirettamente all’elezione di nomi della destra liberale.</p>
<p>In Brasile c’è uno scenario favorevole per sostituire la divisione <em>sinistra contro destra</em> con quella <em>tra liberalismo filo-NATO e nazionalismo filo-BRICS</em>. La posizione dei liberali di sinistra e di destra nei confronti della Russia è particolarmente rivelatrice. In un dibattito con Dugin nel 2011, il leader di culto Olavo de Carvalho ha difeso la folle teoria secondo cui la Russia sarebbe in combutta con altri “metacapitalisti” occidentali (una classe che include Soros) e che ciò potrebbe diventare evidente in futuro. Lungi dall’accettare la confutazione offerta dalla realtà, i seguaci del culto ripetono questa teoria come vera analisi politica in innumerevoli programmi YouTube. A sinistra, un media i cui profili si confondono con quelli di TV Brasil durante l’amministrazione Lula, <a href="https://iclnoticias.com.br/1o-capitulo-do-livro-de-navalny-ativista-russo/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sta pubblicando</a> la traduzione del libro di Navalny, trattando questo suprematista etnico come un combattente per la libertà.</p>
<p>Dato che in Europa sia la sinistra che la destra sono molto liberali nei costumi e che solo una minoranza o una parte periferica della sinistra ha mostrato una reazione al liberalismo economico, credo che lo scenario sia meno incline a sconvolgimenti politici rispetto al Brasile.</p>
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/666c30b0-84b8-11ef-9fd2-1ff0272e012f-e1747258319847.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>You could be forgiven, as an Irish news consumer, for not knowing that earlier this week the British Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, gave a speech on immigration that was the most radically immigration restrictive since Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech in April 1968.</strong></p>
<p>The Irish Times managed one article on the subject, as did the Irish Independent. The rest of the media didn’t fare much better. Gript readers, on this subject, are better informed than their peers.</p>
<p>One reason that this should be a bigger story in Ireland than it currently is concerns the fact that it appears that the Starmer speech was authored – or at least substantially crafted – by an Irishman: Cork’s own Morgan McSweeney, pictured above.</p>
<p>McSweeney has had an interesting career. He is the son of Macroom-based accountant Tim McSweeney and his wife, Carmel. He comes from a family with political ties, and a strong allegiance to Fine Gael – his cousin Claire Mungovan served as an advisor to Ireland’s own Leo Varadkar. He studied politics at Middlesex University, and is a Labour Party “lifer”, having volunteered in University and been an activist and an organiser in the party ever since, for his entire career.</p>
<p>He first came to prominence as a centre-left organiser of the Labour Party in London against the brief heyday of the British National Party, during which he is credited with re-focusing Labour councillors on “bread and butter” issues of local delivery in order to fend off the (real, actual, not imagined) far right in London. A string of impressive local election campaigns followed, and he developed a reputation as a pragmatic and sensible, if solidly left-wing, political campaigner. His first attempt at serious influence at leadership level came when he managed the unsuccessful leadership campaign of one Liz Kendall, before she was defeated by Jeremy Corbyn. A sojourn in a think tank during the long winter of the Corbyn years followed, before he was recruited by Starmer after the 2020 election. He has worked for the Labour Leader ever since, and was widely credited with the “marginal seats only” strategy that saw Labour sweep to a landslide last year on just 34% of the vote.</p>
<p>One thing that has become a recent constant in UK politics is the role of “villainous advisor” – a job first pioneered by Alastair Campbell during the reign of Tony Blair, and carried into even greater notoriety by the role of Dominic Cummings during the turbulent premiership of Boris Johnson. Both men were constantly blamed by supporters and opponents alike, either as dark-arts wielding Svengalis, or as corrupting influences on the otherwise noble leader. McSweeney, it appears, is now being blamed as the latter.</p>
<p>In the days since Starmer’s speech, a torrent of left-wing criticism has been directed in the UK towards the Corkman. Alastair Campbell’s own publication, The New European, went all-out with a piece entitled “Will Morgan McSweeney wreck Labour”. <a href="https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/james-ball-will-morgan-mcsweeney-wreck-labour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The paper writes:</a></p>
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<p><em>The strategy that won the general election appears to be in tatters, with Reform taking hold in the red wall and left wing Labour voters who do not like the McSweeney-driven tough talk on immigration and benefit cheats peeling off to the Greens and Liberal Democrats.</em></p>
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<p>Note the timing here: This criticism, alongside a torrent of online criticism flowing his way from left-leaning UK twitter accounts, comes directly after Starmer’s speech. The UK’s left needs a head, and McSweeney is in their cross-eyes. Do a search for his name on twitter, or X, and you will find a torrent of accounts calling for his head.</p>
<p>Of course, they may have a point: The left’s criticism of McSweeney’s apparent strategy for Starmer has obvious merit as a matter of political strategy alone. By launching the most right-wing speech by a UK Prime Minister on immigration in living memory, Starmer has essentially conceded the ground. The only words missing from his big speech this week were the ones that were implied throughout the text: <em>Nigel Farage was right all along.</em></p>
<p>The problem here is straightforward: Having essentially conceded that Farage is right about immigration and that numbers must come down dramatically, Starmer has now risked making the next general election about a simple question: Who do you trust more to get migrant numbers down – me or Nigel Farage? No wonder the UK’s left is up in arms.</p>
<p>Still, the interesting thing is that they are coming for McSweeney, not Starmer himself. The UK PM is not popular with the electorate in any opinion poll, but he retains the authority of having won the last election with a thumping majority just a few years after his party looked down and out. You may remember a similar dynamic with Boris Johnson: Having delivered a thumping win in 2020, it took two and a half years for his party to turn on him – and it was the allegedly fiendish Cummings who got the boot first.</p>
<p>Still, if the British left are correct and it is, in fact, McSweeney who has steered Starmer towards this tough-on-immigration, tough-on-the-causes-of-immigration approach, then there is irony here: Because both of their political futures are contingent on making it work.</p>
<p>Should Starmer and McSweeney fail to get immigration numbers under control, then they have all but handed Mr. Farage a cudgel to beat the Labour Party to electoral death with over the next five years. For them to remain in power and retain the trust of their party, their strategy will have to succeed, and be converted to votes.</p>
<p>Which means that in an amusing twist, it is a left wing Irishman from Cork who may be tasked with overseeing the most right-wing UK Government policy on immigration in (quite literally) living memories. I do wonder if that’s what he imagined himself doing, Mr. McSweeney, when he set out from Cork for the gold-paved streets of London twenty or more years ago.</p>
<p>Life has a funny way of making fools of us all.</p>

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title: Bad news: We’re still talking about women Priests
author: ;John McGuirk
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/McAleese-1.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Those of you who object to this writer’s broad take on the Irish obsession with the Palestinian conflict – to the notable exclusion of a much bloodier war in South Sudan, for example – will be familiar at least with the argument that I make:</strong> That Ireland is ultimately making enemies on the international stage to no net benefit either for Ireland or for the blighted Palestinian people. As Micheál Martin bemoaned in the Dáil this week, “Israel isn’t listening”. Indeed, Israel has no good or compelling reason to listen to Ireland on any subject whatsoever related to Palestinian peace, since it feels that Ireland’s decision to recognise a Palestinian state amounted to a reward for Hamas for October 7<sup>th</sup>: Palestinians wanted that recognition for years – they only got it when they killed a bunch of Israelis. What does that tell them?</p>
<p>Anyway, that’s a tangent. The basic problem here is that Ireland stands on the international stage, shouting ever louder into a void in the hope that others will admire the strength of our voice.</p>
<p>Which is almost identical to how this country’s cultural and political establishment relates to the Catholic Church. Here’s Fintan O’Toole, <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025/05/13/if-pope-leo-sticks-to-his-guns-on-women-priests-his-fate-is-to-be-a-general-with-no-foot-soldiers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">earlier in the week:</a></p>
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<p><em>“Looked at objectively, there are few great problems that have such obvious solutions. The church is like a farmer who complains of a diminished crop while ploughing only one depleted field and leaving the rest of the land fallow. It creates its own dearth by refusing to admit married men or any women to the priesthood.”</em></p>
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<p>Note the language there: Fintan is a superb and precise writer, and every word counts in his sentences. Therefore you should pay particular respect to the word “obvious”: It is obvious that the Catholic Church could reverse the Irish decline in vocations by admitting married men and women to the Priesthood. So obvious, in fact, that he is baffled as to why this does not simply happen.</p>
<p>But the problem, as in so many things, is that what is obvious to the Fintan O’Tooles of this world is not remotely obvious to anybody else: American seminaries, by all accounts, are full. African Seminaries are full. The Roman Catholic Church has many problems, on a worldwide basis, but recruiting new Priests is not actually amongst them.</p>
<p>Indeed, of all the Christian Churches, the Roman variety is amongst the most healthy: The very doctrinal certainty and “rigid” rules which turn off Fintan’s generation of 1970’s vintage liberals actually seems appealing to many younger people in search of constancy in a changing world. As my friend David Quinn never tires of pointing out, the Anglican Church permits female, married, and openly gay clergy, and yet its pews have been emptying out for a generation and the decline appears to be accelerating.</p>
<p>But for any of this to be relevant, you must first believe what I think is O’Toole’s central delusion (note I am not using the word “lie”): That he is interested in the welfare of the Roman Catholic Church.</p>
<p>What many Irish people of his generation and outlook are most interested in, I believe, is validation: Their story is one of progress, of Irish society endlessly moving forward and discarding the past and evolving in a more progressive direction. They therefore diagnose the ailing Irish Catholic Church with the cancer of <em>not being more like us.</em></p>
<p>This is a common trend in Fintan’s writing: He applied it to Brexit Britain consistently for several years, with the common theme running through those articles being that the United Kingdom should mourn the fact that it was not more like Ireland, and that it had not moved on and discarded its ancient instincts about being a great and notable nation. So is it, in broad terms, with the middle east: This country of our own resolved a long-running ethnic conflict with dialogue and peace and compromise, ergo the Israelis and the Palestinians should be more like us (despite their conflict being vastly more existential for both sides).</p>
<p>O’Toole, I think, genuinely believes that the Roman Church would be a revived institution if it simply opened the doors of its Irish seminaries to women and married men. But he misses the central point: It might be revived, but it would no longer be uniquely <em>Catholic.</em> The Catholic Church with women and married Priests would just be the Anglican Church, with a different religious head. The decision would also undoubtedly cause a schism within the church and do untold harm to its unity, especially given that it is a global institution not an Irish one.</p>
<p>In his heart, I suspect Fintan O’Toole knows this as well as I do. But ultimately, much of Irish commentary comes down to that same central point: Why can’t the rest of the world be as tolerant and liberal and open and feminist as we are? Sure, they’d all be happier for it.</p>
<p>This is what happens when you are a small country, and nobody pays too much attention to you. The rest of the world might decide one day to look at some aspects of Irish life under precisely the liberalism Fintan wants to share with everyone else, and examine just how happy that has made us. I am not sure that Leo XIV, sitting in the Apostolic Palace, would look at modern Ireland and see a society of peace, harmony, and goodwill. Nor that he would be much inclined to take lessons in how to manage change from the generation that has led us by the nose to our present state of being.</p>

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#Comment Ireland #Comment World #Featured Picks #Highlights #Irish News #World News #Catholic Church #culture #Fintan O'Toole #Irish Times #Leo XIV #Liberalism #religion


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title: Never, Ever Let Anyone Forget What They Did To Gaza
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*gCtgINbtH_B2ckcSn1g-JA.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pyectutlqk"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F5pyectutlqk%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5pyectutlqk&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F5pyectutlqk%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/db7936b0a216dfe60739e6e66b7f1eb3/href">https://medium.com/media/db7936b0a216dfe60739e6e66b7f1eb3/href</a></iframe><p>I will never forget the Gaza holocaust. I will never let anyone else forget about the Gaza holocaust.</p><p>No matter what happens or how this thing turns out, I will never let anyone my voice touches forget that our rulers did the most evil things imaginable right in front of us and lied to us about it the entire time.</p><p>I will never stop doing everything I can with my own small platform to help ensure that the perpetrators of this mass atrocity are brought to justice.</p><p>I will never stop doing everything I can to help bring down the western empire and to help free Palestine from the Zionist entity.</p><p>I will never forget those shaking children. Those tiny shredded bodies. Those starved, skeletal forms. The explosions followed by screams. The atrocities followed by western media silence.</p><p>I will never forget, and I will never forgive. I will never forgive our leaders. I will never forgive the western press. I will never forgive Israel. I will never forgive the mainstream US political parties. I will always want for them exactly what they wanted for the Palestinians.</p><p>No matter what happens or what they do in the future, they will always be the people who did this to Gaza. They will always be the people who inflicted this nightmare upon our species. That will always be the most significant thing about them. It will always be the single most defining characteristic about who they are as human beings.</p><p>And the same is true of all the ordinary members of the public who continued to stand with Israel long after evidence of its criminality became undeniable. They are genocide supporters, first and foremost.</p><p>If you stood on the side of Israel during the Gaza holocaust, then that is the most important thing about you, and it always will be. It doesn’t matter if you go to church on Sunday. It doesn’t matter if you are nice to your children and your pets. It doesn’t matter if you give money to charity, support local farmers, or drive an electric vehicle. The thing that matters most about you as a person is that you supported history’s first live-streamed genocide, and it always will be the thing that matters most about you.</p><p>I will keep bringing this up. Year after year. Decade after decade. I will keep rubbing everyone’s face in it. I will never tire of doing so. I will always do my part to remind the world who these people are, and what they did to Gaza.</p><p>________________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/"><em>Click here for links for my mailing list, social media, books, merch, and audio/video versions of each article</em></a><em>. All my work is </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/reminder-all-my-work-may-be-freely"><em>free to bootleg and use</em></a><em> in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. All works co-authored with my husband Tim Foley.</em></p><p>Bitcoin donations: 1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_aerial_view_showing_destruction_in_Rafah_after_Israeli_forces_withdrawal_and_as_the_ceasefire_took_hold,_Gaza_Strip.jpg">Feature image by UNRWA via Wikimedia Commons</a>.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&amp;referrerSource=full_rss&amp;postId=0f92493a5280" width="1" height="1" alt="">

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title: UK Farmers Fear For Bioethanol Market Following US Trade Deal
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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.cityam.com/">Via City AM,</a></p>

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	<p>A recent trade deal between the UK and the US has led to the removal of tariffs on American bioethanol, which British farmers fear will undermine their domestic market.</p>
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	<p>Concerns exist among beef farmers that the deal will result in increased American beef imports, leading to unfair competition and impacting their livelihoods.</p>
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	<p>The trade agreement has sparked widespread scepticism among British farmers regarding the government’s commitment to protecting their interests and the future of the agricultural sector.</p>
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</ul><p dir="ltr">Ministers and commentators heralded the UK’s trade deal with the United States as a political coup that will save thousands of jobs at British automakers. <strong>But changes to beef and bioethanol trade rules have left an already bruised agricultural sector fearing the worst, writes Ali Lyon.</strong></p>

<p dir="ltr"><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-14_mtcl2e1kh9.jpg?itok=X18Bv17F" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-14_mtcl2e1kh9.jpg?itok=X18Bv17F"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b36a1547-1143-467f-9917-fa1edcadab2e" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="209" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-14_mtcl2e1kh9.jpg?itok=X18Bv17F" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p dir="ltr">When he’s not slavishly editing clips for the hundreds of thousands of people that subscribe to his Youtube channel, Olly Harrison has the not insignificant job of running 1,500 acres of farmland.</p>

<p dir="ltr">But as his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@OllyBlogsAgricontractfarmer">impressively regular feed of videos</a> illustrates, tending to that land – and trying to eke out a semblance of profit from it – has become a difficult, bordering on impossible task, as headwind after headwind hit his arable holding near Liverpool.</p>

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<p dir="ltr"><em>“It’s been rubbish,” he tells City AM, still dealing with the aftermath of what was England’s driest April on record. </em></p>

<p dir="ltr"><em>“We’ve had extremes of weather, which has been very wet or – like now – very dry.”</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p dir="ltr">Added to recent years’ inhospitable climes, are the input costs for producing the wheat his family has grown for five generations. They have, he says, remained at the elevated prices sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. At the same time, the price he is able to secure for his end product has fallen by as much as 40 per cent since those 2022 supply-constraint-induced highs.</p>

<p dir="ltr">But it is another, more recent, external shock that has Harrison especially worried. <strong>One that, while niche and esoteric, could kibosh the safety net he and his fellow British arable farmers have traditionally fallen back on when the wholesale wheat price drops too low.</strong></p>

<h2 dir="ltr">Bioethanol: The little-known safety net of arable farmers</h2>

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<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>“The bioethanol market in the UK – for wheat – is quite big,” </strong></em>Harrison says.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>“It’s basically the floor in the market.”</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p dir="ltr">Opening up the UK and US’s agricultural markets to more trade was a key football in the frenzied negotiations that helped the Starmer administration become <a href="https://www.cityam.com/is-the-uk-us-trade-deal-a-win-for-starmer/">the first country in the world to secure a trade deal with America since 2 April’s ‘Liberation Day’.</a></p>

<p dir="ltr">And to spur the States’ capricious President into bringing down painful tariffs on Britain’s export industries like automakers and plane parts, the government agreed to lower its own levies on a selection of American agriculture products; namely beef and the fuel.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The beef tariffs were reduced only on imports that subscribed to the UK’s world-leading food standards, leading some in the farming community to breathe a partial sigh of relief. But the bioethanol concessions – which saw the UK’s 19 per cent tariff abolished completely – contained no such caveats to protect our sizeable domestic industry. That decision has already sparked warnings from key figures involved in domestic bioethanol production that their sector could be facing extinction.</p>

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<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>“Bioethanol, for me, is the watch area,” </strong></em>Tom Bradshaw, president of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) tells City AM.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>“I have been speaking to the bioethanol manufacturing sector… and we think [these changes] probably make it unviable.”</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p dir="ltr">The prognosis from Bradshaw – whose assiduous campaigning around the recent inheritance tax reforms has already made him a regular thorn in the government’s side – was echoed by the UK’s two largest bioethanol producers over the weekend.</p>

<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/bioethanol-industry-collapse-us-trade-deal-6cgdpgcnt">The chief executive of London-listed AB Foods’ sugar division, Paul Kenward, and Grand Pearson, the chairman of Ensus, both warned in a joint intervention</a> their “strategically essential sector” was under an “existential threat”.</p>

<p dir="ltr">All of which has left Harrison worried about what it will do to demand for his product. “If they can now bring it [ethanol] in from the States – using wheat that’s grown a lot cheaper than we can because they get a lot more support off their government, using technologies that we can’t, from farms that have got scale that we haven’t – then that’s seriously undermining a sector that’s already on its knees,” he says.</p>

<p dir="ltr">A hollowed out bioethanol sector also poses the risk of some unsavoury knock-on effects for livestock farmers, the very area of agriculture that the government sought to protect during its negotiations.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Because just as Unilever sources its ingredients for Marmite from breweries – and the byproducts produced in the fermenting process – bioethanol producers sell one of their own high-protein outputs as feed for cows.</p>

<p dir="ltr">As Bradshaw summarises: <em><strong>“If they’re not making bioethanol, we won’t get that animal feed.”</strong></em></p>

<h2 dir="ltr">Yet more farmer beef</h2>

<p dir="ltr">The feed supply issue is just one of several fears that Joe Seels, a Yorkshire-based beef farmer, has for his livelihood as the dust settles on the trade deal.</p>

<p dir="ltr">The NFU’s Bradshaw went to lengths to praise the government for maintaining standards in the face of US pressure. But for Seels, who documented his attendance at the string of protests in London around the changes to inheritance tax on his own Youtube channel, the deal represents yet another example of British agriculture being the fall industry to fix problems elsewhere in the economy.</p>

<p dir="ltr">His primary concern is that there will now be a glut of beef supply in the UK, without the same opportunities to export to the US. Because while the deal ostensibly brings down barriers to trade both ways – both countries agreed to accept 13,000 metric tonnes of beef imports each other each year tariff free – Seels can’t imagine a world in which American food producers buy British.</p>

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<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>“I’m really sceptical that it will open up new export avenues,”</strong></em> he says. </p>

<p dir="ltr"><strong><em>“Being American is eating American beef, they won’t accept ours which will be at a premium to [the hormone-aided beef] in their market.”</em></strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p dir="ltr">While the challenging trade environment in the US will persist, British farmers, he adds, will now face stiff competition from the low-cost American beef that will now be available at home.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Consumers and supermarkets are likely to continue to prefer domestically produced beef. Despite other large beef producing nations having access to the UK market, shoppers overwhelmingly prefer meat produced domestically or in Ireland. Senior figures in retail believe that the ubiquity and salience of farm labelling – from the ‘red tractor’ signifier of food standards to the regular sight of union-jack adorned packaging – mean shoppers are unlikely to find American meat in supermarket aisles.</p>

<p dir="ltr">Where Seels and Bradshaw imagine the influx of American beef will be felt, however, is catering and hospitality, where choice is constricted and labelling is less prominent.</p>

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<p dir="ltr"><em>“They [the US] have got less red tape, fewer planning restrictions, and their farming operations are just on a huge scale, which all leads to being able to create a product that’s much cheaper,” says Seels.</em></p>

<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>“We won’t see that on shelves,”</strong> he adds,<strong> “but where this beef might have a market is food services.”</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p dir="ltr">Ministers have been at pains to trumpet the deal’s positive impact on livestock farmers, many of whom have long feared the spectre of chlorinated chicken and hormone beef being a concession in wider UK-US trade talks. But years of feeling let down by successive governments, mean farmers remain fearful of what the future holds.</p>

<blockquote>
<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>“I have no faith whatsoever that the government will protect our interests in future negotiations,” </strong></em>says Harrison. </p>

<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>"They’re just giving us another kick every time, and not realising how vulnerable the farming sector is.”</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p dir="ltr">That scepticism is shared by Seels, who like Harrison is also a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@joeseels">popular farming video blogger</a> and has previous in using his channels to vent at political decision making.</p>

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<p dir="ltr"><em><strong>“This government has said things to us in the past that it wasn’t going to do then it’s turned around and changed its mind,”</strong></em> he says.</p>
</blockquote>

<p dir="ltr">If it does so again, ministers can expect the vitriolic response comprising more than just a few fiercely worded Youtube videos.</p>
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title: Mort de Napa Raphaël André : « On ne peut pas accepter un décès comme ça », dit la coroner
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<p>La mort de Napa Raphaël André est « un signal d'alarme pour notre société », souligne la coroner.</p>

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title: Harvard Tops America's Largest University Endowments (For Now)
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Harvard Tops America's Largest University Endowments (For Now)</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>University endowments held more than $870 billion in assets last year, largely dominated by America’s elite institutions.</p>

<p>While <strong>Harvard, Yale, and Stanford have amassed tens of billions in assets</strong>, the median endowment stands at <strong>$243 million</strong> across 658 institutions.</p>

<p>Overall, endowment assets increased by 4% in 2024 driven by donations and investment returns.</p>

<p>This graphic, <a href="https://www.visualcapitalist.com/largest-american-university-endowments">via Visual Capitalist's Dorothy Neufeld, </a>shows the largest university endowments in America, based on data from the NACUBO via <a href="https://www.collegetransitions.com/blog/colleges-with-the-largest-endowments/">College Transitions</a>.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/Universitieswithbar.jpg?itok=D_fn0mst" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/Universitieswithbar.jpg?itok=D_fn0mst"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="91ca1f2e-2b11-445b-8acf-db9ccaecab91" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="657" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/Universitieswithbar.jpg?itok=D_fn0mst" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<h2>Harvard Leads Nationally</h2>

<p>As the largest university endowment worldwide, Harvard boasts a number of wealthy donors including Michael Bloomberg and hedge fund billionaire John Paulson.</p>

<p>After the Trump administration froze billions in grants and funding, it raised $1.1 million across more than 4,000 online donations in the first two days after stating it would push back against their demands. Overall, the fund holds $52 billion in assets, as shown in the table below:</p>

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<p>As we can see, the University of Texas System is the only public university endowment ranking in the top five.</p>

<p>In fact, UT Austin is among the few universities that has invested in Bitcoin, along with Stanford and Brown. While endowments typically avoid riskier investments, they are increasingly allocating funds into cryptocurrency thanks to regulatory factors.</p>

<p>Overall, a number of elite institutions have the largest endowments nationally, including Stanford (#4) and Princeton (#5).</p>

<h2>How Do University Endowments Spend Their Assets?</h2>

<p>While university’s hold significant endowment funds, much of the assets are designated for a specific purpose, such as scholarships.</p>

<p>At the same time, these assets are often invested in illiquid assets such as real estate and hedge funds. As a result, it can be damaging to sell these at a loss if universities face a funding shortfall.</p>

<p>Below, we show how $30 billion in endowment funds were spent during fiscal year 2024:</p>

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<p>Overall, nearly half of spending went toward student financial aid, with some of the largest endowments such as Stanford and Harvard covering 100% of students financial aid requests.</p>

<p>Academic research was the second-highest category, at 18%, followed by endowed faculty positions, at 11%. Specifically, these positions are funded by endowment donations over a number of years. Finally, facilities operation and management accounted for the smallest share, at 7% overall, covering renovations and building repairs.</p>

<p><em>To learn more about this topic from a global perspective, check out this <a href="https://www.voronoiapp.com/education/-Zoom-In-The-Best-Non-US-Universities-in-2025-Ranked-4947">graphic</a> on the top universities outside of America.</em></p>
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_2584.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>It must have taken extraordinary courage for Jacqueline Connolly <a href="https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/the-most-shocking-detail-in-that-note-was-that-alan-hawe-admitted-to-enjoying-the-killings-of-wife-clodagh-and-his-children/a113181859.html">to write her “shocking and haunting” book</a>, Deadly Silence, which attempts to uncover the truth about what happened when Alan Hawe violently murdered his beautiful wife, Clodagh, and their three young children Liam (13), Niall (11) and Ryan (6) one fatal Sunday evening in 2016.</strong></p>
<p>The horrifying nature of their murders left the country reeling, and urged a focus on the victims of such evil crime, rather than the perpetrators. Clodagh’s sister, Jacqueline, and her mother Mary Coll, had always rejected expert medical evidence given at the inquest into the deaths that Alan Hawe was suffering from depression and psychosis.</p>
<p>Instead, they argued, Alan Hawe – a deputy school principal and a man very much involved in the local community – believed he was about to ‘fall from grace’ because he had developed an obsession with pornography, <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/alan-hawe-would-have-faced-trial-for-murder-says-expert-1.3810195">and had</a> apparently been caught masturbating and watching pornography.</p>
<p>They did not want the savagery Alan Hawe had meted out to Clodagh and their three young boys to be explained away by an undiagnosed mental illness: by deranged actions driven by psychosis. Hawe’s action were evil and a result of his controlling nature, they believed.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="c-paragraph paywall">I think they are correct, and the distinction they are making is an important one, not just for Clodagh’s family, but for our understanding of how these appalling murders take place – not that we may ever fully understand what can bring a human being to commit such acts, to be honest, but it is better to face such terrible evil than to mark it down as being simply inexplicable.</p>
<p>But that can’t have been easy. At times, Jacqueline Connolly must have felt exhausted from the distress of the effort required to tell this devastating, shocking, heartbreaking story. She had to go to a “very dark place to think about what he did”, she said. And she had already been through her own previous agonies: the death of her brother Tadhg, who she adored, by suicide, and then her beloved husband Richie to the same just three years later.</p>
<p>She told the Irish Times that she “found there is a stigma attached to grief. There is a stigma attached to how you’ve had your losses”. That is an extraordinarily astute insight.  No-one means to be unkind, but the palpable unease around violent or unusually traumatic deaths must be wounding at times for those most injured by such grievous loss.</p>
<p>For those left behind, the trauma of knowing the terror that was endured by people they deeply loved in their final moments before they were murdered may never heal. Jacqueline wrote that Alan Hawe using an axe and a knife “killed Clodagh as if he hated her, murdering her with savagery”.</p>
<p>Liam and Niall tried to fight back, two young boys left with defensive wounds and signs of struggle, after their own father attacked them with a knife. Little Ryan, just six years old, was similarly shown no mercy. Alan Hawe had clearly thought this through. Each child was killed, the inquest heard, in a way that ensured they could not cry out or warn each other. This was planned – the result of “meticulous planning”, it seems, not a frenzy of rage or the actions of a berserk man. That was evil.</p>
<p>Jacqueline also revealed that the family had learned from a Serious Crime Review of the case – a review only won by the hard-fought public attention the family brought to the issue – the extent of Alan Hawe’s controlling nature, and of his depravity.</p>
<p>She was shocked to learn that her text messages to her Clodagh had all been forwarded by her sister to Hawe, though she says she always felt he tried to create a wedge between the two sisters. One investigator told her that Hawe saw her as a threat.</p>
<p>We now also know that Alan Hawe had a pornography obsession, and used a secret phone to access pornography – including images involving children. He feared that this would come out – something he referred to in his suicide note, though I’d contend that in such cases it is pride rather than shame which leads to such a violent reaction.</p>
<p>Hawe was proud of his reputation as an important man in the community: it was his pride, his obsession with control and with being held in esteem, that seemingly ballooned in his distorted thinking to somehow justifying his heinous, murderous acts.</p>
<p>With bullies and those who practise coercive control, someone else is always to blame. For such psychopaths, if their depravity is to be found out, if public appropriation is to be felt, others – even the innocent – must be also punished.</p>
<p>Was the pornography obsession part of that distorted thinking? We don’t talk enough about the effect of porn on already disordered minds, about the prevalence of violence against women in what is being consumed by some men on a daily basis, about the depiction of women as objects to be used, violated and abused.</p>
<p>Last year, Women’s Aid launched new research that it said found the consumption of mainstream pornography is fuelling high levels of violence against and degradation of women and girls.</p>
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<p>Report finds that pornography that features the strangling of women during sex, verbally degrading them and spitting in their faces, among countless other acts of callousness and cruelty is now mainstream and freely available to everyone, including children, with a few clicks online.</p>
<p>Researchers have found that much mainstream pornography depicts high levels of sexual and physical aggression against women which actively distorts and breaks the boundary between ‘sex’ and ‘sexual violence’.</p>
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<p>The effect of watching that kind of pornography can only be that women are dehumanised. But its my view that it may also be leading to an alarming hatred of women, because it distorts the reality of what male-female interactions and relationships should be. Research <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-relationship-between-pornography-use-and-harmful-sexual-behaviours/the-relationship-between-pornography-use-and-harmful-sexual-attitudes-and-behaviours-literature-review">carried out by the British government</a> found that “there is substantial evidence of an association between the use of pornography and harmful sexual attitudes and behaviours towards women”.</p>
<p>A systematic review <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15248380231173619?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.1">published in 2023</a> found that the impact extended beyond sexual violence, saying “an association between pornography use and nonsexual violence seems to exist, although the causality of this association remains unclear.” Perhaps the causality is that when women are objectified every day in the mind of a porn consumer, it becomes much easier to attack, stab, strangle, kill an object rather than a human being.</p>
<p>Jennifer Connolly says that the note left by Hawe  – really a 1,000 word letter which focused on his feelings – revealed that he enjoyed the brutal death he meted out to Clodagh and her children. Such psychopathy is terrifying, especially given the apparent normality of the family prior to the murders, though as Clodagh’s sister points out, Alan Hawe was, in fact, not what he seemed.</p>
<p>Her search for answers has highlighted many areas where the system must do better in terms of communicating and assisting the traumatised families left behind after such a unspeakable act of violence. Perhaps it might also prompt a wider consideration of the corrosive and harmful effect of pornography, especially on already disordered minds?</p>


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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Germany Wind Power Firms Face Millions In Losses As Wind Speed Drops To 50-Year Low</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 <a href="https://rmx.news/article/germany-wind-power-firms-face-millions-in-losses-as-wind-speed-drops-to-50-year-low/">ReMix News</a></em></p>

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<p>In many ways, Germany’s wind power revolution has been a success, with wind power serving as the country’s largest source of electricity. However, the current wind lull over the last three months has led to an extreme dip in energy production, which is costing firms millions in losses.</p>

<p>The wind speed average has dropped below less than 5.5 meters per second in the first quarter of 2025, according to German Meteorological Service (DWD). The last time the country saw such low speeds was in 1972 and 1973, and before that, in 1963.</p>

<p>Wind energy producers have been hit hard. For example, PNE, a wind farm operator in Coxhaven, showed revenue dropped to €27.9 million from €31.4 million the previous year, but perhaps more importantly, it went from an operating profit of €1.1 million in the first quarter to a loss of €7.1 million, according to <a href="https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/plus256108392/Energiewende-Deutschlands-dramatischer-Windkraft-Einbruch-und-seine-Folgen.html">Welt</a>.</p>

<p>The company indicated that there was 31 percent less electricity generated nationwide in the first quarter of the year than in the same period last year, according to data from the German Energy and Water Industry Association (BDEW).</p>

<p>However, it should be noted that April 2024 and 2022 saw much higher wind speeds than previous years, so comparing 2024 to 2025 makes this drop look even more extreme. Experts say there is no evidence of climate change being at work, noting that previous decades have had similar lulls in wind speed.</p>

<p>Germany experienced so-called “dark lulls” over the winter, featuring little sunlight and low wind speed, which led to extremely high prices. Germany imported energy from neighboring countries and turned to conventional power plants in response.</p>

<p>Former Economic Minister Robert Habeck of the Greens had already planned to provide incentives to build 40 large gas-fired plants by 2030 to deal with fluctuations in wind and solar energy. These gas plants had a number of climate protections allegedly built in, such as being able to be switched to hydrogen at some point in the future.</p>

<p>The grid is also at risk due to renewable energy in some instances, especially during holidays when there is less power demand. Solar power cannot be regulated by grid operators, which means that when there is too much electricity and not enough sources that need it, the grid is pushed to its limit. The previous German government, at the urging of grid operators, implemented the PV Peak Act to deal with surplus solar power production.</p>

<p>The average share of solar power energy in 2023 was 31.5 percent, with coal-fired plants in second, at 22.5 percent.</p>

<p>Renewables make up an increasingly large share of Germany’s energy profile, which supporters say reduces reliance on foreign countries such as Russia while also reducing carbon emissions. Critics, on the other hand, say wind power has harmed energy security and also presents a number of environmental risks to <a href="https://rmx.news/environment/greens-commence-deforestation-of-germanys-enchanted-forest-to-make-way-for-wind-turbines/">wildlife and even forests</a>.</p>

<p>However, it is not just countries like Germany turning to renewables. Conservative governments, including Hungary’s, are also increasingly shifting to wind and especially solar, <a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news-corner/hungary-leading-europe-in-solar-power-generation/">where it is one of Europe’s leaders</a>.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">White House Has Presented Iran With Written Nuke Deal Proposal In Huge First</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><u>Update(10:30ET)</u>:</strong> With President Trump and his envoy having arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the last leg of the president's Gulf tour, new details of behind the scenes US-Iran negotiations have come to light on Thursday.</p>

<p>In a huge first, the Trump White House has <strong>sent Iran a written proposal toward forging a new nuclear deal</strong>. White House envoy Steve Witkoff has led several rounds of talks, and Axios has revealed that the communication was issued to Tehran last Sunday.</p>

<p>"Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi took the proposal back to Tehran for consultations with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Masoud Pezeshkian and other top officials," writes <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/15/iran-deal-proposal-witkoff-enrichment">Axios</a>.</p>
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<p>It was the Iranian side which <strong>initiated the swap of written proposals</strong> first, as the talks which have been on since April went from 'indirect' to more <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/15/iran-deal-proposal-witkoff-enrichment">'direct'</a>:</p>

<ul><li><em>During the third round of talks in late April, Araghchi gave Witkoff an updated document with Iranian ideas for a nuclear deal. This time, Witkoff took the document.</em></li>
	<li><em>A U.S. team of experts studied it and sent the Iranians a list of questions and requests for clarification. The Iranians replied and added questions of their own, two sources said.</em></li>
	<li><em>Meanwhile, Witkoff and his team prepared a U.S. proposal laying out the Trump administration's parameters for an Iranian civilian nuclear program and requirements for monitoring and verification, the sources said.</em></li>
</ul><p>It appears that thus far both sides have received the other's written proposals positively, and that's what was driving President Trump's "olive branch" comments on Tuesday. He had stressed while speaking in Saudi Arabia that <strong>"this is not an offer that will last forever. The time is right now for them to choose."</strong></p>

<p>President Trump followed up on Thursday by saying from Qatar,  "We're in <strong>very serious negotiations </strong>with Iran for long-term peace," according to AFP.</p>

<p>He said, "We're getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this... there (are) two steps to doing this, there is a very, very nice step and there is the violent step, but I don't want to do it the second."</p>

<p>Trump's comments followed an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iran-enriched-uranium-nuclear-deal-trump-rcna206833">NBC News</a> interview with Ali Shamkhani, a top political, military and nuclear adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said Tehran is prepared to sign a nuclear deal—provided key conditions are met—in exchange for the lifting of U.S. economic sanctions. </p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Trump reposted the NBC article indicating Iran is ready to reach a deal (though the details of that deal suggest it would look essentially identical to the JCPOA). <a href="https://t.co/LPDLzqu0nd">pic.twitter.com/LPDLzqu0nd</a></p>
— Gregory Brew (@gbrew24) <a href="https://twitter.com/gbrew24/status/1923005051322212696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>NBC News pointed out that Shamkhani's comments "appear to be the clearest public statement yet on Iran's expectations and willingness to reach a deal from the supreme leader's inner circle." </p>

<p>And the fact that written proposals have already been exchanged is yet further confirmation of this positive trend towards peace. Trump has emphasized that Iran can never have a nuclear bomb, but Tehran itself has long said it's not pursuing a nuke, and that its program is only for peaceful domestic energy purposes.</p>

<p>* * *</p>

<p>Brent crude prices fell on Thursday as geopolitical risk premiums eased following President Trump's comments during his Gulf tour, where he signaled that the U.S. is nearing a nuclear deal with Iran. Unlike earlier headlines on AI, defense, and aviation deals with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, Trump's comments suggested a potential breakthrough in U.S.-Iran nuclear talks.</p>

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<p>"We're in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace," Trump told reporters in a press pool that AFP News first reported. </p>

<p>Speaking in Doha, Qatar, during his Middle East trip, the president said, "We're getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this... there (are) two steps to doing this, there is a very, very nice step and there is the violent step, but I don't want to do it the second way."</p>

<p>An Iranian source told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-us-is-getting-very-close-nuclear-deal-with-iran-2025-05-15/">Reuters</a> that negotiations with Trump administration officials still needed to bridge some gaps before a final deal could be reached. </p>

<p>Trump's comments followed an <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/iran-enriched-uranium-nuclear-deal-trump-rcna206833">NBC News</a> interview with Ali Shamkhani, a top political, military and nuclear adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said Tehran is prepared to sign a nuclear deal—provided key conditions are met—in exchange for the lifting of U.S. economic sanctions. </p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">With Trump Touring Gulf, Iran Offers Huge Nuclear Concession <a href="https://t.co/NQ4259UIsE">https://t.co/NQ4259UIsE</a></p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1922796096553714104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Trump confirms reports that Iran have “sort of agreed to the terms” that they cannot have nuclear capabilities!<br><br>
Trump confirms he is currently in “very serious negotiations with Iran, for long-term peace”!<br><br>
Trump also highlights how “many people” want war with Iran, but that he… <a href="https://t.co/rVSkScNRIN">pic.twitter.com/rVSkScNRIN</a></p>
— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) <a href="https://twitter.com/WarClandestine/status/1922920176497942987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>NBC News pointed out that Shamkhani's comments "appear to be the clearest public statement yet on Iran's expectations and willingness to reach a deal from the supreme leader's inner circle." </p>

<p>Trump has offered "an olive branch" to Tehran after a multi-month maximum-pressure campaign, including economic sanctions and deploying long-range stealth bombers to America's "<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/military/stealth-bombers-reportedly-deploying-americas-unsinkable-carrier">unsinkable aircraft carrier</a>" - located in the Indian Ocean - ready to be deployed at a moment's notice.</p>

<p>However, last week, ahead of Trump's Gulf tour, we spotted at least one of these <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stealth-bomber-returns-diego-garcia-us-iran-nuclear-talks-head-fourth-round">stealth bombers returning</a> to the U.S. We suggested this may have been an act of goodwill ahead of talks by the U.S. or possibly just a routine flight.  </p>

<p>On Thursday, Brent crude futures fell 3% to $60 a barrel on expectations that a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal would ease sanctions and increase crude oil on international markets.</p>

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<p>"The overnight development of a possible nuclear deal is the sole reason for the morning's weakness. If an agreement is reached, Iran agrees to halt enriching weapon grade uranium and the deal is effectively enforced, which is hard to believe, then the Persian Gulf country's crude oil exports can rise by as much as 1 [million barrels per day]," PVM analyst Tamas Varga told CNBC in an emailed statement. </p>

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<p>"It sounds price negative, but its impact will possibly be mitigated by OPEC+ rolling back on its plan to release barrels back to the market faster than originally planned," he added.</p>

<p>Goldman trader Rich Privorotsky commented on the development: </p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>Staying with geopolitics there are some rather positive stories emanating out of Iran. "Iran is ready to sign a nuclear deal with certain conditions with President Donald Trump in exchange for lifting economic sanctions, a top adviser to Iran's supreme leader told NBC News on Wednesday." Unclear if the U.S. will agree to the terms but they seem fairly broad: "He said Iran would commit to never making nuclear weapons, getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium which can be weaponized, agree to only enrich uranium to the lower levels needed for civilian use, and allow international inspectors to supervise the process, in exchange for the immediate lifting of all economic sanctions on Iran." (NBC news) If confirmed I think oil could eventually end up heading back to the recent lows and I would continue to express any cyclical concerns in this space.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Here's the latest commentary from UBS traders:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>Oil Equity Resilience Amid Oil Price Drop Oil prices are down, mainly because of a potential deal with Iran. That could mean up to 500kb/d increased supply coming to market very quickly. Oil equities, however, are already underweight for generalists and specialists have already de-grossed, following the OPEC+ surprises so far this year - hence oil equities are proving to be relatively resilient even though the oil price is down.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>If Trump secures a nuclear deal with Tehran, it would cap off a week of landmark agreements with Gulf nations—collectively worth trillions—and add to an already bullish news cycle for the president. Also, this would mean continued easing of geopolitical risk premiums in the region, in other words, lower energy prices for Trump to pursue his 'America First' agenda.</p>
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title: Foot Locker Shares Erupt On Possible $2.4 Billion Dick's Sporting Deal
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Foot Locker Shares Erupt On Possible $2.4 Billion Dick's Sporting Deal</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>Foot Locker shares erupted in premarket trading Thursday after <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/dicks-sporting-goods-nears-deal-to-buy-foot-locker-7ecf9194">The Wall Street Journal</a> reported that Dick's Sporting Goods has agreed to acquire the struggling sneaker retailer for $2.4 billion, offering $24 per share in cash or stock—a nearly 90% premium to Foot Locker's pre-announcement price. Shareholders will have the option to receive either cash or 0.1168 shares of Dick's common stock for each Foot Locker share they own.</p>

<p>Dick's is the nation's largest sports retailing chain and operates Golf Galaxy stores across the US. The acquisition of the sneaker chain would allow Dick's to expand globally in 26 countries.</p>

<p><strong>Number of Foot Locker stores worldwide as of financial year 2023, by store type (via <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/975277/foot-locker-number-of-stores-worldwide-by-type/">Statista</a>)</strong></p>

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<p>WSJ noted, "Dick's said it expects to operate Foot Locker as a stand-alone business unit within its portfolio and maintain the Foot Locker brands."</p>

<p>The move also parallels broader retail consolidation, following Skechers' recent $9.4 billion sale to 3G Capital, a private equity firm with a history in the consumer-goods sector, earlier this month. </p>

<p>News of the acquisition comes as both Dick's and Foot Locker have been pressured by tariff-related retail headwinds, particularly in the sneaker space. </p>

<p>Foot Locker shares plunged 41% this year due to weak sales forecasts and pressure from Nike's pricing changes but surged 84% in premarket trading in New York to around $23.70.</p>

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<p>Foot Locker's float is 14.6% short - or about 13.6 million shares. Rough day ahead of the bears. </p>

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<p>Shares of Dick's in premarket is down 9%. On the year, shares are down 8.4% (as of Wednesday's close). The deal is the largest ever for the sporting goods retailer and aligns with Lauren Hobart's strategy to grow consumer engagement. </p>

<p>Here's the first take from Wall Street analysts (courtesy of Bloomberg):</p>

<blockquote>
<p><strong>Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Lindsay Dutch</strong></p>

<ul><li>
	<p><em>Foot Locker is in the midst of a challenging turnaround, and may need a buyout from Dick's Sporting Goods</em></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><em>"For Dick's, the potential $2 billion deal might strengthen its leading position in the $140 billion market at a discounted multiple of 0.3x price to sales, yet also increases reliance on Nike's assortment"</em></p>
	</li>
</ul><p><strong>Morgan Stanley analyst Simeon Gutman</strong></p>

<ul><li>
	<p><em>"Greater scale and EPS accretion are potential positives, offset by a premium for a struggling chain"</em></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><em>The initial reaction to the stocks may be tentative as sources of value creation not as obvious </em></p>
	</li>
</ul><p><strong>Truist Securities analyst Joseph Civello</strong></p>

<ul><li>
	<p><em>A  potential deal can create value for Dick's over the long term</em></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><em>"FL's business has been under meaningful pressure over the past few years and we think a potential turnaround would likely be a long/ bumpy process"</em></p>
	</li>
</ul></blockquote>

<blockquote>
<p><strong>Jefferies analyst Corey Tarlowe</strong></p>

<ul><li>
	<p><em>A deal makes sense given Dick's and Foot Locker's category overlap and Foot Locker's "recent diversification efforts"</em></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><em>At $24/share it's a potentially positive offer for the Foot Locker stock</em></p>
	</li>
</ul></blockquote>

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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>US equity futures are lower as investors take profits on Thursday and tech stocks fell as investors worried about an economic slowdown after Steve Cohen warned the chance of a recession is 45% and today’s retail sales numbers are expected to be a miss. As of 8:00am ET, S&amp;P futures are down 0.4%, rebounding from session lows after Walmart reported solid earnings; Nasdaq futures dropped 0.5% with Nvidia, Palantir and Tesla falling about 2% in early trading.  On Wednesday, the S&amp;P failed at 5,900 for the second consecutive day. The silver lining according to JPM is that yesterday, NVDA turned positive on the year, joining META and MSFT; if the remaining members follow suit, there is another ~10% upside to the index assuming positive members are flat. YTD, AMZN is -4.2%, GOOG -12.6%, TSLA -13.9%, and AAPL -15.2%. In trade news, China removed curbs on rare earth exports to the US. Trump says India is willing to drop is tariffs on US goods. Brent sank below $64, down more than 3% after President Donald Trump said the US is getting closer to a deal on Iran’s nuclear program, fueling concern that additional oil supply may pressure the market. Bond yields and the USD are lower. Today’s macro data focus is on Retail Sales which are expected to remain unchanged in April (versus 1.5% prior); PPI, Jobless Claims, Philly Fed and Empire Manufacturing numbers are due at 8:30 am in New York, while Industrial Production prints at 9:15am. Also, traders are <strong>looking ahead to a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.</strong></p>

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<p>In premarket trading, UnitedHealth shares sank after the WSJ reported it’s under criminal investigation for possible Medicare fraud. Walmart delivered another quarter of solid sales and earnings growth, and cautioned that tariffs and increasing economic turbulence means even the world’s largest retailer can’t hold off on price increases forever. Shares gained 2.4% premarket. Magnificent Seven stocks are lower as risk appetite falters (Tesla -1.8%, Apple -1%, Meta Platforms -1%, Amazon -0.8%, Alphabet -0.7%, Nvidia -0.6%, Microsoft -0.5%). Here are some other notable premarket movers:</p>

<ul><li>Alibaba ADRs (BABA) decline 5.6% after reporting revenue that missed estimates, dragged by a slowing international e-commerce arm and its Cainiao logistics business that’s under restructuring.</li>
	<li>Boot Barn (BOOT) rises 13% after the retailer of western wear gave a forecast for 1Q same-store sales growth that surpassed Wall Street estimates, despite an expected hit from tariffs.</li>
	<li>Cisco Systems (CSCO) rises 3.3% after the company gave a solid forecast for revenue in the current quarter, a sign the largest seller of networking gear is benefiting from demand for systems using AI technology.</li>
	<li>CoreWeave (CRWV) shares fall 6.6% after the cloud-computing provider’s quarterly profit forecast missed estimates due to some spending being brought forward.</li>
	<li>Crowdstrike Holdings (CRWD) shares are down 2.4% in premarket trading, after Mizuho Securities downgraded the software company to neutral from outperform.</li>
	<li>DXC Technology (DXC) shares are down 14% after the company reported forecast adjusted earnings per share for the first quarter and 2026 full-year guidance that missed the average analyst estimate.</li>
	<li>Dlocal (DLO) shares gain 21% after the financial technology company beat earnings expectations and unveiled plans for a special dividend.</li>
	<li>Foot Locker (FL) is up 84% with Dick’s Sporting Goods to buy it in a cash or stock deal implying an equity value of about $2.4 billion and an enterprise value of about $2.5 billion.</li>
	<li>JetBlue (JBLU) falls 1.6% after Raymond James downgraded the airline company to market perform from outperform, citing a more balanced risk-reward amid an improvement in sentiment.</li>
	<li>Luminar (LAZR) drops 13% after the automotive technology company’s CEO Austin Russell resigned as CEO, overshadowing better-than-expected first-quarter sales.</li>
	<li>NetEase ADRs (NTES) are up 6.7% after the China-based video-game company reported first-quarter results that beat expectations.</li>
	<li>New Fortress Energy (NFE) shares slump 38% after the energy infrastructure firm saw adj. Ebitda plunge in the first quarter, with analysts flagging that the sale of its Jamaican assets will dent cash flow.</li>
</ul><p>There’s also some big company news to digest. Trump wants Apple to stop moving iPhone production to India, while Starbucks is said to be considering options to revamp its China business, including a possible stake sale.</p>

<p>Economic forecasters this week have said that while the Trump administration’s temporary trade deal with China has reduced the risk of a recession, the overall economy is likely to slow. <strong>“There’s definitely more clarity than a few weeks ago,</strong>” Dubravko Lakos-Bujas, chief of global markets strategy at JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co., said in a Bloomberg Television interview. “Some of the uncertainty around trade, tariffs, policy started to get reined in.”</p>

<p><strong>“The market is globally priced for perfection,” </strong>said Michael Nizard, head of multi-asset at Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management. “The retail sales figures should reveal that consumer is already depressed in terms of business confidence.”  </p>

<p>Meanwhile, billionaire Steve Cohen, speaking at the Sohn Investment Conference on Wednesday, put the chances of a US recession at about 45%. Cohen, the founder of hedge fund Point72 Asset Management, said he doesn’t expect the Federal Reserve to cut rates right away, because “they are going to be worried about inflation from tariffs.” He said he expects US economic growth next year to slow to 1.5% or less, “which is OK but not phenomenal.”</p>

<p>Looking at today's macro data, Retail sales are expected to rise by a tepid 0.1% in April (versus 1.5% prior) according to Bloomberg economists, while a survey of economists is pointing to flat month-on-month sales. PPI and Empire Manufacturing numbers are due at 8:30 am in New York. Traders were looking ahead to a speech by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, as well as data on manufacturing and retail sales, for the next readout on US growth and inflation. Economists are expecting no growth in retail sales in April as consumers cut back on some purchases. </p>

<p>European stocks retreat for a second day. Energy stocks lead declines, driven by a fall in oil prices following a report that Iran is willing to forgo nuclear weapons in a deal with the US, while utilities and food and beverage stocks outperform. Among individual stocks, insurance firm Allianz drops after disappointing results. Stoxx 600 falls 0.2% to 542.88 with 327 members down, 263 up, and 10 little changed. Here are the biggest European movers:</p>

<ul><li>KBC shares rise as much as 2.6% after the Belgian lender reported earnings that analysts said were roughly in line with expectations, and saw a boost from increased insurance revenues.</li>
	<li>Engie shares gain as much as 2.2% after the utility produced what analysts said were strong results that should provide further comfort around full-year guidance and the dividend.</li>
	<li>Serco shares rise as much as 6.9% after the outsourcing-services company announced the award of three contracts with a combined value of more than £1b to provide maritime services for the Royal Navy.</li>
	<li>Watches of Switzerland shares rise as much as 6.7% after the watch seller’s update showed no deterioration in trends in either the UK or US, providing some relief to investors.</li>
	<li>Energy stocks are the worst-performing sector as oil falls following a report that Iran is willing to forgo nuclear weapons in a deal with the US in exchange for sanctions relief.</li>
	<li>Allianz shares fall as much as 3.9% after the German insurer reported earnings that analysts called disappointing.</li>
	<li>3i shares drop as much as 8.1% following the private equity firm’s full-year results, with net asset value per share coming in marginally below analyst expectations.</li>
	<li>Deutsche Telekom shares decline as much as 1.2% after the telecom operator reported mixed trends in its home market Germany.</li>
	<li>Thyssenkrupp shares fall as much as 14% after the German firm reported what Morgan Stanley called a substantial miss. Analysts see challenges reaching full-year guidance.</li>
	<li>Orsted shares drop as much as 4.7%, to the lowest since December 2016, after Berenberg analysts cut their rating on the stock to hold from buy.</li>
	<li>Siemens shares fall as much as 4.4% after the German industrial group reported a solid set of second-quarter earnings, with analysts noting continued improvement for the key Digital Industries division.</li>
	<li>CVC Capital shares fall as much as 3.2%, with analyst saying that the buyout firm’s fee paying AUM for the first quarter disappointed as some funds reached the end of their fee-paying periods.</li>
</ul><p>Earlier in the session, Asian stocks slipped, poised to snap a four-day win streak, as the rally fueled in part by reduced fear over US tariffs fizzled. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell as much as 0.5%, with Toyota, and Sony among the biggest drags, as a stronger yen weighed on Japanese equities. Key gauges fell more than 1% each in Thailand and the Philippines. <strong>Tencent dipped despite upbeat earnings, weighing on key Hong Kong gauges, as investors await Alibaba’s results later Thursday. </strong>The market had been looking for major Chinese tech reports to provide the next catalyst. Despite the muted response to the US-China trade truce, some market watchers are turning more positive on Chinese stocks. Strategists at Goldman Sachs have raised their Chinese stocks index targets. Morgan Stanley said MSCI China’s onshore stocks saw “meaningful improvement” in the first quarter results over the previous three months, marking the first in-line outcome after 14 quarters of misses.</p>

<p>In FX, the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index declines 0.3%.  The pound adds 0.2% with little reaction seen after UK GDP in the first quarter topped estimates as the period precedes a sharp rise in US tariffs.</p>

<p>In rates, treasuries are slightly richer across the curve with gains led by front end and belly, unwinding a portion of Wednesday’s selloff when Fed-policy pricing saw a hawkish shift. US yields are 2bp-3bp lower across maturities led by 5-year sector with 10-year near 4.51%. European government bonds also gain: bunds and gilts outperform, supporting Treasuries, following wave of European data including UK GDP and industrial production and French CPI. Slide in oil futures also supports Treasuries. US session includes April retail sales data and remarks by Fed Chair Powell on the central bank’s monetary policy framework review (text release expected at 8:40am New York time).</p>

<p>In commodities, WTI crude oil futures have pared a 4.2% drop to about 3.7%, extending losses for a second day after US President Trump said an agreement to curb Iran’s nuclear program is closer. Spot gold falls $11 to around $3,167/oz having pared an earlier fall.</p>

<p>US economic data calendar includes May Empire manufacturing, April retail sales, PPI, weekly jobless claims, May Philadelphia Fed business outlook (8:30am), April industrial production (9:15am), March business inventories, May NAHB housing market index (10am). Fed speaker slate includes Powell (8:40am) and Barr (2:05pm)</p>

<p><strong>Market Snapshot</strong></p>

<ul><li>S&amp;P 500 mini -0.4%</li>
	<li>Nasdaq 100 mini -0.6%</li>
	<li>Russell 2000 mini -0.2%</li>
	<li>Stoxx Europe 600 -0.2%</li>
	<li>DAX -0.3%</li>
	<li>CAC 40 -0.2%</li>
	<li>10-year Treasury yield -3 basis points at 4.5%</li>
	<li>VIX +0.6 points at 19.2</li>
	<li>Bloomberg Dollar Index -0.3% at 1229.3</li>
	<li>euro +0.3% at $1.1208</li>
	<li>WTI crude -4.1% at $60.55/barrel</li>
</ul><p><strong>Top Overnight News</strong></p>

<ul><li>U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States was getting very close to securing a nuclear deal with Iran, and Tehran had "sort of" agreed to the terms. The agreement would see the country foreswear highly enriched uranium in exchange for an easing of economic sanctions. RTRS</li>
	<li>U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that India had offered a trade deal that proposed "no tariffs" for American goods, while expressing his dissatisfaction with Apple's  plans to invest in India. New Delhi is seeking to clinch a trade deal with the U.S. within the 90-day pause announced by Trump on April 9 on tariff hikes for major trading partners. RTRS</li>
	<li>US officials seeking to negotiate trade deals around the world are not working to include currency policy pledges in the agreements, according to a person familiar with the matter. Foreign-exchange markets are on edge over concerns President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking a weaker greenback and might use trade bargaining to achieve that goal. BBG</li>
	<li>Trump asked Apple’s Tim Cook to stop plans to move iPhone output to India. The president said Apple will increase production in the US as a result of their discussion. BBG</li>
	<li>US authorities are preparing to announce one of the biggest cuts in banks’ capital requirements for more than a decade, marking the latest sign of deregulation agenda for the Trump administration. FT</li>
	<li>Trump says the US will upgrade the F-35 to an F-55; will do an F-22 super, an upgrade on the F-22.</li>
	<li>UnitedHealth shares dropped premarket after the WSJ reported it’s under criminal investigation for possible Medicare fraud. The company said it hasn’t been notified by the DOJ. BBG</li>
	<li>Japan's top trade negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, could travel to Washington as soon as next week for a third round of trade talks with the U.S., two sources with knowledge of the plans told Reuters on Thursday. RTRS</li>
	<li>Ignoring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call to meet for direct high-level talks in Turkey, Russian leader Vladimir Putin dispatched to Istanbul a team of junior officials, making it uncertain that negotiations between the warring nations would occur at all. WSJ</li>
	<li>Oil demand growth to slow according to the latest IEA report – “Global oil demand growth is projected to slow from 990 kb/d in 1Q25 to 650 kb/d for the remainder of the year as economic headwinds and record EV sales curb use.” IEA</li>
</ul><p><strong>Tariffs/Trade</strong></p>

<ul><li>EU Trade Commissioner Sefcovic says the US and EU have agreed to intensify trade talk contacts.</li>
	<li>WTO chief warned that US bilateral tariff deals could put trade principles at risk and said global trade was in a crisis despite the recent de-escalation of the US-China tariff war, according to FT.</li>
	<li>US Treasury secretary Bessent says they can accomplish "a lot" over the next 90 days; will have a series of negotiations to prevent escalation with China again.</li>
</ul><p><em>A more detailed look at global markets courtesy of Newsquawk</em></p>

<p><strong>APAC stocks were predominantly lower following the mixed handover from Wall St, where the major indices were somewhat choppy and small caps underperformed as yields edged higher. </strong>ASX 200 traded indecisively but eventually eked mild gains in the aftermath of the stronger-than-expected jobs data from Australia. Nikkei 225 underperformed following recent currency strength and as earnings results remained in the spotlight in Japan. Hang Seng and Shanghai Comp were lacklustre amid little in the way of fresh catalysts to spur momentum, while Tencent shares traded indecisively post-earnings and Alibaba results are scheduled for release today.</p>

<p><em>Top Asian News</em></p>

<ul><li>Chinese President Xi hopes the Danish Chamber of Commerce in China and member companies will continue to role as a bridge between China and Denmark and between China and Europe, according to Xinhua.</li>
	<li>PBoC Governor Pan said China welcomes more outstanding Latin American market players to issue Panda bonds in China and share market development opportunities, while he added that China and Latin America should promote financial cooperation in a wider range of fields and a deeper level.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Subdued sentiment across Europe after the predominantly lower APAC handover, and following the mixed handover from Wall St, </strong>where the major indices were somewhat choppy and small caps underperformed as yields edged higher. Newsflow this morning has been light but earnings picked up, whilst current focus remains on geopolitical ongoings with US President Trump in the Middle East, consolatory language from Iran, and a likely no-show from Russia President Putin in Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Turkey. Sectors are mostly a defensive bias and in line with the cautious mood across the markets.</p>

<p><em>Top European News</em></p>

<ul><li>Plans for a reset of UK-EU relations hit trouble due to fishing rights and youth mobility as EU member states demanded further concessions from the UK, according to the FT.</li>
</ul><p><strong>FX</strong></p>

<ul><li>DXY subdued and contained within Wednesday's confines amid a lack of fresh catalysts overnight, n a 100.58-101.05 range at the time of writing, within yesterday's 100.27-101.14 parameter.</li>
	<li>EUR ekes mild gains and trades on either side of the 1.1200 level after recent fluctuations, and with ECB speakers scheduled later, although data and speakers today are not likely to shift the dial much.</li>
	<li>GBP is slightly firmer following better-than-expected UK GDP data; GBP/USD resides within yesterday's 1.3250-1.3360 range.</li>
	<li>USD/JPY retreated overnight as the underperformance in Japanese stocks spurred some haven flows into the yen.</li>
	<li>Antipodeans are subdued in-fitting with the broader risk tone; mild support was seen in AUD/USD following the stronger-than-expected employment data from Australia.</li>
	<li>PBoC set USD/CNY mid-point at 7.1963 vs exp. 7.2217 (Prev. 7.1956).</li>
</ul><p><strong>Fixed Income</strong></p>

<ul><li>Another contained start for fixed income with USTs marginally in the green while peers across the pond resided slightly in the red in the early morning.</li>
	<li>USTs at a 109-26 peak with gains of a handful of ticks. While firmer, the benchmark remains markedly shy of peaks from the last three sessions at 110-09+, 110-15 and 110-19+ respectively.</li>
	<li>Bunds find themselves attempting to make a footing above the break-even mark at the top-end of a 129.13 to 129.47 band.</li>
	<li>Gilts gapped higher by 17 ticks, before then slipping to a shortlived 91.02 low given the readacross from EGBs at the time. Currently, at the mid-point of a 91.02-22 band.</li>
	<li>UK sells (via tender) GBP 2.0bln 0.125% 2028 Gilt: b/c 3.52x, average yield 3.768% &amp; tail 0.7bps</li>
</ul><p><strong>Commodities</strong></p>

<ul><li>WTI and Brent are suffering losses of USD 2/bbl, with commentary surrounding Iran applying steady pressure overnight and through the morning so far. US President Trump said the US is getting close to a deal with Iran, and they are in serious peace negotiations, adding that Iran has "sort of" agreed to the terms of a deal. This constructive commentary surrounding the nation pushed benchmarks to fresh session lows, adding to overnight losses. Losses overnight also stemmed from geopolitics, following a report that Iran is ready to sign an agreement with certain conditions in exchange for the lifting of sanctions and would commit to never making nuclear weapons and getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium. The aforementioned lows for WTI and Brent are currently USD 60.65 and 63.63/bbl.</li>
	<li>Spot Gold is extending on recent losses with demand subdued as it sits below the USD 3,200/oz mark. The trend seen for most of this week remains intact, with the metal continuing to be hit by higher yields, particularly on the short end.</li>
	<li>Copper Futures are lower by a percent, mostly owing to a downbeat risk sentiment in APAC hours. It currently trades towards session lows of USD 9,467/t, after being modestly pressured around the time of Trump commentary.</li>
	<li>IEA lifts 2025 average oil demand growth forecast by 20k BPD to 740k BPD on upward revision to GDP growth forecast and lower oil prices; sees global oil demand growth dropping to 650k BPD for remainder of 2025, from 990k BPD in Q1. “Increased trade uncertainty is expected to weigh on the world economy and by extension oil demand,”. IEA sees oil inventories rising by around 720k BPD in 2025 as global supply rises expected to considerably outpace demand growth. IEA hikes 2025 global supply growth forecast to 1.6mln BPD, up by 380k BPD from previous month's report on higher Saudi production outlook. IEA raises 2026 average oil demand growth forecast to 760k BPD (prev forecast 690k BPD).</li>
</ul><p><strong>Geopolitics: Ukraine</strong></p>

<ul><li>Russian President Putin was not on a list of negotiators the Kremlin published for talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on Thursday</li>
	<li>Russian Kremlin spokesperson Peskov says no chance Russian President Putin will take part in Turkey talks, according to Ria.</li>
	<li>US President Trump says he will go to the Russia-Ukraine talks if appropriate.</li>
</ul><p><strong>Geopolitics: Middle East</strong></p>

<ul><li>Qatar's PM said Israeli attacks in Gaza this week send a signal that they are not interested in negotiating a ceasefire, while he added that a US humanitarian plan for Gaza is not necessary and the UN should be allowed to deliver aid, according to CNN.</li>
	<li>Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announced it will launch operations in the Gaza Strip before the end of the month and stated that Israel has agreed to expand the number of distribution sites to serve the entire population of Gaza.</li>
	<li>US President Trump said Qatar is working with the US on negotiating an Iran deal and he wants to see Iran thrive.</li>
	<li>Iranian President Pezeshkian said Iran will not bow to any bullying from US President Trump who he suggested thinks that he can come to the region, chant slogans, and scare them.</li>
	<li>Iran is ready to sign an agreement with certain conditions in exchange for the lifting of sanctions and would commit to never making nuclear weapons, as well as getting rid of its stockpiles of highly enriched uranium, according to a top advisor to the Supreme Leader cited by NBC News.- US President Trump says the US getting close to doing a deal with Iran; in serious negotiations to achieve peace; don't want to take a second step and threaten Iran. Want to end Iran in an intelligent way, not destructive</li>
</ul><p><strong>Geopolitics: Other</strong></p>

<ul><li>China's Hainan Maritime Safety Administration warned of military training taking place in an area of the South China Sea from May 15th to 16th and prohibited entry, while it noted there were some drills near Vietnam and China's Hainan.</li>
	<li>Russia sent a fighter jet to "check the situation" as Estonia was attempting to detain a Russian shadow fleet tanker, according to the Estonian Foreign Minister; jet violated NATO territory for "around a minute".</li>
</ul><p><strong>US Event Calendar</strong></p>

<ul><li>8:30 am: May Empire Manufacturing, est. -8, prior -8.1</li>
	<li>8:30 am: Apr Retail Sales Advance MoM, est. 0%, prior 1.4%, revised 1.45%</li>
	<li>8:30 am: Apr Retail Sales Ex Auto and Gas, est. 0.3%, prior 0.8%, revised 0.86%</li>
	<li>8:30 am: Apr Retail Sales Ex Auto MoM, est. 0.3%, prior 0.5%, revised 0.56%</li>
	<li>8:30 am: Apr PPI Final Demand MoM, est. 0.2%, prior -0.4%</li>
	<li>8:30 am: Apr PPI Ex Food and Energy MoM, est. 0.3%, prior -0.1%</li>
	<li>8:30 am: Apr PPI Final Demand YoY, est. 2.5%, prior 2.7%</li>
	<li>8:30 am: Apr PPI Ex Food and Energy YoY, est. 3.1%, prior 3.3%</li>
	<li>8:30 am: May 10 Initial Jobless Claims, est. 227.5k, prior 228k</li>
	<li>8:30 am: May 3 Continuing Claims, est. 1890k, prior 1879k</li>
	<li>8:30 am: May Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook, est. -11, prior -26.4</li>
	<li>9:15 am: Apr Industrial Production MoM, est. 0.1%, prior -0.3%</li>
	<li>9:15 am: Apr Capacity Utilization, est. 77.8%, prior 77.8%</li>
	<li>10:00 am: Mar Business Inventories, est. 0.2%, prior 0.2%</li>
	<li>10:00 am: May NAHB Housing Market Index, est. 40, prior 40</li>
</ul><p><strong>Central bank speakers </strong></p>

<ul><li>5:00 am: 2nd Thomas Laubach Research Conference</li>
	<li>8:40 am: Fed’s Powell Speaks on Framework Review</li>
	<li>2:05 pm: Fed’s Barr Gives Opening Remarks</li>
</ul><p><strong>DB's Jim Reid concludes the overnight wrap</strong></p>

<p>The strong recent equity rally showed some signs of exhaustion over the past 24 hours, even though gains for the tech mega caps helped the S&amp;P 500 (+0.10%) extend its gains since the closing low on April 7 to +18.26%. On the other hand, Treasuries came under renewed pressure with the 10yr yield (+7.1bps) closing above 4.5% for the first time since February as investors continued to price out Fed rate cuts and increased their focus on the US fiscal outlook. The moves added to the mixed performance across US asset classes since early April, with the S&amp;P 500 now +3.91% above the pre-Liberation Day levels but 10yr Treasuries (+40bps) and the dollar index (-2.67%) having lost considerable ground.</p>

<p>Trump’s Middle East tour continued to generate headlines yesterday, but their market impact was narrower in comparison to Tuesday’s rally. One notable beneficiary was Nvidia (+4.16%), which moved back into the green YTD after the oil giant Saudi Aramco signed agreements of as much as $90bn with a slew of US companies, including with Nvidia on AI infrastructure. That helped the Magnificent 7 rise +1.75% on the day, while the NASDAQ was +0.72% higher. Elsewhere, more than $243bn of deals were announced during Trump’s visit to Qatar, with the White House saying this would lay the groundwork for a bigger $1.2trn economic pledge. This included a $96bn deal to buy up to 210 Boeing aircraft. Boeing’s shares closed +0.64% on the day, having been +3% intra-day after Trump announced the deal. The president is in the UAE today, so expect more announcements.</p>

<p>Outside of tech the equity mood was actually pretty weak, as the equal-weighted version of the S&amp;P 500 (-0.62%) and the small-cap Russell 2000 (-0.88%) posted visible declines. This weaker performance was also visible in Europe as the STOXX 600 (-0.24%) ended its four-day winning streak, with the DAX (-0.47%) and CAC (-0.47%) leading the decline. Among the reasons for a stalling of the equity rally was a relative absence of trade headlines, although Bloomberg reported that India’s trade minister is set to visit the US this week to discuss tariffs.</p>

<p>With the recent surge driven by US-China trade discussions waning, Asian equity markets are also losing momentum this morning. Across the region, the Nikkei (-0.98%) is the biggest laggard, with the KOSPI (-0.43%) also in the red. In China, the CSI (-0.58%) and the Shanghai Composite (-0.42%) and Hang Seng (-0.25%) are moderately lower. The S&amp;P/ASX 200 (+0.27%) is an exception in the region, trading higher. In the US, S&amp;P 500 futures are -0.18% lower while those on the NASDAQ are near flat.</p>

<p>Yesterday’s more notable market milestones came for Treasuries, with 2yr (+5.1bps to 4.05%) and 10yr (+7.1bps to 4.54%) yields both closing at their highest levels since February. And the 30yr yield rose +6.7bps to 4.97%, its highest close since January and within touching distance of the 5% level it briefly breached on the evening of April 8, the night before Trump announced a 90 day delay to the reciprocal tariffs. So we are now reaching yield levels that previously seemed to trigger sensitivity from the US administration, though the recent moves are much more orderly than they were in early April.</p>

<p>The bond sell-off came amid an ongoing reversal in Fed rate cut expectations, with fed funds futures moving to price less than two cuts by year-end for the first time since February (-3.9bps to 49bps). That came as Fed speakers struck a measured tone, with San Francisco Fed President Daly saying that “the word of the day is patience” while Chicago Fed President Goolsbee said that a “solid hard data economy is still there” beneath the recent noise.</p>

<p>Meanwhile on the US fiscal side, the Republicans’ planned economic package continued to take shape, with the House Ways and Means Committee advancing the proposed tax portion that included an extension of 2017 tax cuts, eliminating taxes on tips and overtime pay and creating some new tax deductions, although some key issues such as the state and local tax deduction remain unresolved. The total of those planned tax cuts are well above the spending cuts that have been approved by other House Committees, so as things stands it looks improbable that the eventual package will deliver any meaningful reduction of the elevated US fiscal deficit.</p>

<p>The above rates moves come ahead of a slew of US data today, including the April PPI, where after Tuesday’s April CPI miss, we’ll be monitoring the categories that feed through into core PCE, while also watching for any evidence of tariff pass through into producer prices. Meanwhile, the April retail sales print will be watched for possible signs of pull-forward demand in response to tariffs, with April industrial production also due. Recall that while US sentiment surveys have seen a sharp weakening over the past few months, hard data have so far held up quite well.</p>

<p>The other notable market story yesterday were moves in the US dollar. The dollar index fell by as much as -0.72% intra-day following reporting that US and South Korea officials had discussed exchange rate policies at a meeting in early May. However, it recovered back to little changed (+0.04%) by the close following a Bloomberg report that US officials were not seeking currency pledges as part of ongoing trade negotiations. Still, there were notable gains against the dollar for the East Asian currencies, including the South Korean won (+0.88%) and Japanese yen (+0.50%). The won and yen are another +0.60% and +0.47% higher this morning. At a minimum, there is a sense that these countries may become more reticent to push back against their currencies appreciating than they have been in the past.</p>

<p>Turning back to Trump’s visit in the Middle East, yesterday the president said that Iran must “permanently and verifiably cease” its pursuit of nuclear weapons if it wanted to strike a deal with the US, while NBC reported that Iran is ready to sign an agreement with certain conditions. Brent crude was down -0.81% to $66.09/bbl on the back of ameliorating tensions, while gold fell -2.25% to $3,177/oz, leaving the precious metal on course for its biggest weekly decline since November.</p>

<p>Geopolitics will stay in focus today with Russia-Ukraine talks expected in Istanbul. The nature of any talks remains uncertain, with Ukraine’s President Zelensky calling for an in-person meeting with Russia’s Putin, but Moscow last night announcing a delegation headed by Vladimir Medinsky, a former Minister of Culture who led Russia’s talks with Ukraine back in 2022. Should the talks deliver little, a key question will be whether the US might join in announcing new sanctions against Russia which have been advocated by European leaders.</p>

<p>In terms of the day ahead, in the US we have the April PPI report, retail sales, industrial production, May Philadelphia Fed business outlook, Empire manufacturing index, initial jobless claims and more. We’ll also see the UK release its Q1 GDP numbers, with our UK economist expecting growth to have jumped in Q1 before reversing in Q2 (see preview here). Other data releases include March trade balances in Italy and the Eurozone. Central bank speakers include Fed’s Barkin, ECB’s Lane and BoE’s Lombardelli. The European Commission is also set to release their Spring Economic Forecasts.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Zelensky In Istanbul Responds To 'Insult' Of Putin Sending Junior Officials To Talks: "I Am Here"</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 team of Russian negotiators are in Istanbul on Thursday for the first direct peace talks with Ukraine in more than three years, with Russia's Foreign Ministry officials <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/press_service/announcements/2015826/" title="confirmed">saying</a> that the delegation is <strong>"ready for serious work"</strong>.</p>

<p>President Putin, who as expected is not there in person, <a href="https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/14/putin-wont-attend-istanbul-talks-taps-kremlin-aide-medinsky-to-lead-delegation-a89086" title="tapping">tapped</a> his <strong>aide and former culture minister Vladimir Medinsky to lead the talks</strong>, which many Western analysts have claimed is <strong>an 'insult'</strong> given it's not someone more senior. Medinsky, it should be remembered, oversaw the failed 2022 peace talks with Kiev in the weeks after the February invasion.</p>

<p>Alongside Medinsky are Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin, Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin and Igor Kostyukov, the head of Russia’s military intelligence agency (GRU).</p>

<p>Supporting these main negotiators are group of advisers, including senior officials from the Foreign and Defense Ministries, along with Putin aides. The Kremlin confirmed the identities of its negotiating team by <a href="https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7715268?from=top_main_4" title="showing">releasing</a> footage of Putin meeting with the negotiation group late Wednesday.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">On Wednesday evening, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting to discuss arrangements for talks with Ukraine, due to take place today in Istanbul, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters:<a href="https://t.co/hRmXK7daoA">https://t.co/hRmXK7daoA</a><br><br>
Video: Kremlin. ru <a href="https://t.co/1e7DHMlFgv">pic.twitter.com/1e7DHMlFgv</a></p>
— TASS (@tassagency_en) <a href="https://twitter.com/tassagency_en/status/1922908096126460403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Other top officials were seen present in the send-off meeting in Russia, among them Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, Russia’s chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu and Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov - which perhaps underscores that Moscow is indeed taking the Istanbul talks very seriously.</p>

<p>But many are <strong>calling this a 'slap in the face' and insult to Trump who has strongly backed direct talks</strong>, and who even urged Putin to be there in person. </p>

<p>Trump has warned that he is <strong>"always considering" additional sanctions</strong> against Russia if he believes Moscow is blocking or snubbing the peace process.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Putin sending the same people to Istanbul who, back in 2022, demanded Ukraine's surrender on his behalf is a slap in the face to the Trump administration’s efforts to end this war. The message is clear: fuck off — I have my own objectives, and they haven’t changed since 2022,… <a href="https://t.co/8Sj3mprJXe">https://t.co/8Sj3mprJXe</a></p>
— Sławomir Dębski (@SlawomirDebski) <a href="https://twitter.com/SlawomirDebski/status/1922768783996780806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 14, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>As for Ukraine's President Zelensky, he's has for the past week been making a big show of how he's willing to be in Istanbul, and Putin is not. He's been repeatedly goading Putin to be there, saying that if he's not - it proves Moscow is not interested in the peace process. </p>

<p>However, this has <strong>clearly been a performative effort more geared to show President Trump that Kiev is 'willing'</strong> - likely in hopes that Washington gives Zelensky stronger backing, and of course a steady supply of weapons and intelligence. To some degree, Zelensky's bellicose rhetoric may itself have sabotaged talks before they had even begun.</p>

<p>But Zelensky has shown up in Turkey, somewhat surprisingly. <strong><em>"I am here"</em></strong> - he has emphasized (in once again a bit of messaging <em>primarily aimed at the White House</em>). He's meeting with Erdogan, but apparently this is separate, and happening in Ankara. </p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Zelensky to Putin from Ankara:<br><br>
"I am here." <a href="https://t.co/67RjF4QFqb">pic.twitter.com/67RjF4QFqb</a></p>
— Clash Report (@clashreport) <a href="https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1922967974916280463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>The Wall Street Journal's take is as follows:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>"Ignoring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call to meet for direct high-level talks in Turkey, Russian leader Vladimir Putin <strong>dispatched to Istanbul a team of junior officials</strong>, making it uncertain that negotiations between the warring nations would occur at all."</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>But Russia analyst and author of Forged In War: A Military History of Russia From its Beginnings To Today, <a href="https://x.com/MarkGaleotti">Mark Geleotti</a>, has a very different take, featured below [emphasis ZH]:</p>

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<p><em>It’s easy (and not wholly untrue) to slam Vladimir Medinsky, leading the Russian delegation to Istanbul as a nobody, but perversely, although I think it monstrously unlikely anything meaningful will come from the talks, <strong>the composition of the delegation is encouraging</strong>.</em></p>

<p><em>Putin was never likely to attend, not least as he wasn’t going to allow it to look as if he had been manipulated and dared by Zelensky. Besides, sometimes it can help break a logjam (think Reagan/Gorbachev), but leaders usually turn up to seal the deal at the end of the process, after experts have done all the hard preparatory work away from the cameras.</em></p>

<p><em><strong>Do we honestly think two men who so plainly loathe each other and who have been shamelessly posturing for Trump's benefit were going to reach some kind of meeting of minds?</strong> Possible, but unlikely.</em></p>

<p><em>Medinsky led the talks in 2022 that failed to reach a usable deal (we can discount the myth that Zelensky was about to agree to Russia's demands until Boris Johnson nixed it) so this is meant to signal continuity in process and demands.</em></p>

<p><em><strong>Medinsky's very lack of personal authority isn’t a snub, so much as a sign that Putin wants to manage any process by remote control</strong>. He's a human drone, which at least means any positions he advances/agrees already have VVP's ok</em></p>

<p></p>

<p><em>The rest of the delegation likewise isn't showy (though the presence of military intel chief Kostyukov is interesting as they were key in POW swaps) but likewise <strong>meant to signal a willingness to do serious work</strong>. (Although this doesn’t necessarily mean make necessary compromises).</em></p>

<p><em>Of course, with no hint that Russia is about to relax its implausible and unfair demands, this may all be for show. It probably is, alas. But talking is always good as there is a *chance*, however minuscule, that talks can lead somewhere.</em></p>

<p><em>So although Medinsky is a shallow ideologist, and sending him is in a way a snub, <strong>a means for Putin to try and reject Zelensky's challenge while not looking wholly uncooperative in Trump's eyes</strong>.</em></p>

<p><em>…<strong>whereas before I was 99% pessimistic about the talks, now I’m only 98% so</strong>. That is as much room for optimism as there is, these days.</em></p>
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<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
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<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
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<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
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<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">US Retail Sales Surprises To The Upside, But...</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>If BofA's omniscient analysts are right (and they have been serially on the correct side of this data series relative to consensus for months), then traders should brace for <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/brace-retail-sales-miss">disappointment this morning for the retail sales data</a>.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/weak%20retail%20sales%20drop.jpg?itok=OAEks3aj" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/weak%20retail%20sales%20drop.jpg?itok=OAEks3aj"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4d91b7d2-6529-4d76-ae4b-962a828c28b0" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="245" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/weak%20retail%20sales%20drop.jpg?itok=OAEks3aj" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>But...</p>

<p>For once, the BofA analysts were incorrect as headline retail sales rose 0.1% MoM (better than the 0.0% MoM exp, but this follows a sizable upward revision in March to +1.7% MoM (from +1.4%). With the revision that left retail sales up 5.2% YoY - near its highest since Dec 2023</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/scxacsacs.jpg?itok=WuOv4c-8" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/scxacsacs.jpg?itok=WuOv4c-8"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="f2f83df0-93cc-4775-918a-2ea3927287fd" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="277" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/scxacsacs.jpg?itok=WuOv4c-8" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>Under the hood, Sporting Goods sales declined the most while Building Materials rose the most...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/image_61.png?itok=KvQ4Cxw_" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/image_61.png?itok=KvQ4Cxw_"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c55d9764-6061-4d74-8c25-6116024920b1" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="463" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/image_61.png?itok=KvQ4Cxw_" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><strong>The (tariff front running) surge in Motor Vehicle Sales last month has gone...</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_05-46-31.jpg?itok=CWEv-lb1" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_05-46-31.jpg?itok=CWEv-lb1"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="7a41de0e-5461-49f6-9cd8-e044c84b33a3" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="578" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-15_05-46-31.jpg?itok=CWEv-lb1" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>As a reminder, this data is nominal, so adjusting ()very roughly) for inflation, retail sales rose 2.8% YoY, equalling its highest since Feb 2022...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm2E1C.jpg?itok=Y1DbTF9z" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm2E1C.jpg?itok=Y1DbTF9z"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0870d3e2-4b19-4051-8a35-f07ba6e61be1" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="275" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm2E1C.jpg?itok=Y1DbTF9z" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>More problematically, the Control Group - which feeds directly into GDP - was a big miss, dropping 0.2% MoM (vs expectations of a 0.3% MoM rise)...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmFC18_0.jpg?itok=q-6tkyms" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmFC18_0.jpg?itok=q-6tkyms"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c216abc1-cf18-4606-b23c-d8826dc103a5" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="277" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmFC18_0.jpg?itok=q-6tkyms" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>So, the good news is bottom-up Americans are spending... but top-down GDP may be negatively affected.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Walmart Delivers Solid Earnings, Warns Of Imminent Price Hikes </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>Walmart reported better-than-expected first-quarter results for the period ending April 30 but cautioned that the trade war will raise prices on certain items as early as this month. The warning underscores that the mega retailer's low-price model is threatened amid an ongoing value war with other U.S. retailers. </p>

<p>The nation's largest retailer posted first-quarter results showing a 4.5% year-over-year sales increase at U.S. Walmart stores, surpassing the Bloomberg Consensus estimate of 3.85%. Adjusted earnings per share came in at 61 cents, also beating the 58-cent estimate.</p>

<p>1Q25 results demonstrate that Walmart's pricing power to offer low-cost products continues to increase. </p>

<p>Here is the highlight of the 1Q results (ended April 30):</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>Adjusted EPS: $0.61 vs. $0.58 estimate </em></p>

<p><em>Revenue: $165.61B (+2.5% y/y) vs. $166.02B estimate </em></p>

<p><em>U.S. Comparable Sales (ex-gas): Walmart</em></p>

<ul><li>
	<p><em>Walmart stores: +4.5% vs. +3.85% estimate </em></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><em>Sam's Club: +6.7% vs. +4.93% estimate</em></p>
	</li>
</ul><p><em>E-Commerce Growth </em></p>

<ul><li>
	<p><em>Walmart U.S.: +21% vs. +13.8% estimate</em></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><em>Sam's Club: +27% vs. +14.3% estimate</em></p>
	</li>
</ul><p><em>Operating Cash Flow: $5.4B</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p><strong>From the earnings deck:</strong></p>

<p><b>Total revenues/gross profit </b></p>

<p><em><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/unnamed_1060.png?itok=4BlfL8DX" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/unnamed_1060.png?itok=4BlfL8DX"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="90bdcd76-08bc-4261-82ff-3e5a7cc274ab" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="207" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/unnamed_1060.png?itok=4BlfL8DX" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></em></p>

<p><strong>Operating expense/income detail</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/unnamed-1_52.png?itok=KQsMajwd" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/unnamed-1_52.png?itok=KQsMajwd"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="f954923b-f55a-4ee8-8554-719092f5a752" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="560" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/unnamed-1_52.png?itok=KQsMajwd" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><strong>EPS/Cash flow </strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/unnamed-2_30.png?itok=m_0W-04f" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/unnamed-2_30.png?itok=m_0W-04f"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="26589130-91d0-4580-b6cf-03bdfba4cbd5" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="561" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/unnamed-2_30.png?itok=m_0W-04f" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><strong>Additional details...</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/unnamed-4_2.png?itok=XpQjPPYA" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/unnamed-4_2.png?itok=XpQjPPYA"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="f38118ed-39e2-4d2d-960c-646c05167a4e" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="280" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/unnamed-4_2.png?itok=XpQjPPYA" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Walmart maintained its full-year guidance, which was issued in February. </p>

<blockquote>
<ul><li>
	<p><em>Q2 Sales Growth Forecast: +3.5% to +4.5%</em></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><em>FY2026 EPS Guidance (unchanged): $2.50–$2.60 vs. $2.61 estimate</em></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><em>FY2026 Net Sales Growth (unchanged): +3% to +4%</em></p>
	</li>
</ul></blockquote>

<p>While Walmart delivered another solid quarter of sales and earnings growth, the focus has shifted to the growing negative impact of the trade war.</p>

<p>Goldman analysts Mark Jordan, Emily Ghosh, and others commented on Walmart's earnings:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>WMT reported 1Q25 adj. EPS of $0.61, above GS/consensus (Refinitiv) of $0.58/$0.58. Walmart US SSS of +4.5% tracked better than consensus at +3.9%, driven by traffic (+1.6%) and average ticket (+2.8%). By category, grocery was up +MSD, noting increased transactions and units along with inflation of ~150 bps, due primarily to eggs. Health &amp; wellness grew +high-teens, driven by higher script counts, mix shift toward branded from generic, and strong over-the-counter sales. General merchandise was slightly negative, reflecting growth in unit volumes, which was more than offset by MSD like-for-like deflation, while seasonal events were strong; WMT called out sales softness in electronics, home, and sporting goods, offset by strength in toys, automotive, and kids' apparel. Global/Walmart U.S. e-commerce net sales grew +22%/+21% (vs. +16%/+20% in 4Q), while global/Walmart U.S. advertising grew +50% including VIZIO/+31% ex VIZIO (vs. +29%/+24% in 4Q), respectively.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>They offered their take on guidance:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>WMT reiterated 2025 guidance to net sales growth of +3.0-4.0% (vs. GS/consensus of +4.0%/+3.6%), adj. operating income growth of +3.5-5.5%, and adj. EPS of $2.50-2.60 (vs. GS/consensus at $2.60/$2.61). For 2Q, WMT is guiding to net sales growth of +3.5-4.5% (vs. GS/consensus of +4.0%/+3.5%), while the company is not guiding to operating income growth or EPS given the dynamic macro backdrop.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p><em><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_08-54-11.png?itok=cOMd1_Vc" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_08-54-11.png?itok=cOMd1_Vc"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="064cf6cd-58df-4390-a726-3183d7b60f02" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="420" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-15_08-54-11.png?itok=cOMd1_Vc" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></em></p>

<p>And maintained their "Buy" rated 12-month price target of $99.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_08-53-55.png?itok=XWJaqJEu" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_08-53-55.png?itok=XWJaqJEu"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="df4db9cb-fa28-4ba5-8a28-1bc5258a648b" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="314" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-15_08-53-55.png?itok=XWJaqJEu" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>In a post-earnings interview, CFO John David Rainey warned that price hikes at Walmart stores will begin this month: "If you've not already seen it, it will happen in May and then it will become more pronounced." </p>

<p>The retailer warned about trade war uncertainty and how the situation "changes by the week," adding, "The lack of clarity that exists in today's dynamic operating environment makes the very near-term exceedingly difficult to forecast." </p>

<p>Walmart's supply chain offers some insulation from the trade war. About 66% of its merchandise—primarily groceries—is sourced domestically, accounting for roughly two-thirds of its U.S. business. However, CFO John David Rainey noted that imported categories such as electronics, apparel, and toys could face additional price hikes in the coming months.</p>

<p>"We will do our best to keep our prices as low as possible but given the magnitude of the tariffs, even at the reduced levels announced this week, we aren't able to absorb all the pressure given the reality of narrow retail margins," said CEO Doug McMillon in a statement.</p>

<p>Takeaway: Walmart is not entirely immune to tariffs. Despite the 90-day cooling period between the U.S. and China and a substantial tariff rate reduction on both sides of the Pacific, price hikes are still coming. As cost pressures mount, the retailer's ability to fully absorb them is becoming increasingly difficult, potentially jeopardizing its low-price value model amid an ongoing, multi-year value war with other U.S. retailers. </p>

<p> </p>

<p>*  *  *</p>

<p><strong>See: Walmart's full earnings presentation... </strong></p>

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title: US Producer Prices Plunge Most Since COVID Lockdowns
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">US Producer Prices Plunge Most Since COVID Lockdowns</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>Following the cooler than expected CPI, US Producer Prices plunged in April, down 0.5% MoM (vs +0.2% MoM exp) - the biggest drop since April 2020 (but we note that last month's 0.4% MoM decline was revised up to unchanged). The headline print was dragged down to +2.4% YoY (the lowest since Sept 2024)...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmB863.jpg?itok=26M_hylF" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmB863.jpg?itok=26M_hylF"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="94f0678d-a1f9-49ee-8780-8f67e4257843" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="272" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmB863.jpg?itok=26M_hylF" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>Under the hood, <strong>Prices for final demand services moved down 0.7 percent in April, the largest decline since the index began in December 2009.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm787F_0.jpg?itok=iIEedxYk" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm787F_0.jpg?itok=iIEedxYk"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="afbf0d2d-eada-4864-b4f4-c4ecfef62821" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="238" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm787F_0.jpg?itok=iIEedxYk" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p><strong>Core Producer Prices plunged by the most on record (back to 2010)...</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmD736.jpg?itok=ItTTN8fz" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmD736.jpg?itok=ItTTN8fz"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="62fe33d1-91c4-4d6d-8fd2-d054918ff4a8" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="277" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmD736.jpg?itok=ItTTN8fz" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p><em><strong>PPI Final Demand Services</strong></em></p>

<p><strong>Prices for final demand services moved down 0.7 percent in April, the largest decline since the index began in December 2009. </strong>Over two-thirds of the broad-based decrease can be traced to <em><strong>margins for final demand trade services, which dropped 1.6 percent. </strong></em>(Trade indexes measure changes in margins received by wholesalers and retailers.) Prices for final demand services less trade, transportation, and warehousing and for final demand transportation and warehousing services fell 0.3 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively.</p>

<ul><li><em><strong>Product detail</strong>: </em>Over 40 percent of the April decline in the index for final demand services is <em><strong>attributable to margins for machinery and vehicle wholesaling, which dropped 6.1 percent. </strong></em>The indexes for portfolio management, food and alcohol wholesaling, system software publishing, traveler accommodation services, and airline passenger services also fell. Conversely, prices for outpatient care (partial) advanced 0.3 percent. The indexes for furniture retailing and for inpatient care also moved up. (See table 2.)</li>
</ul><p><em><strong>PPI Final demand goods</strong></em></p>

<p>Prices for final demand goods were unchanged in April following a 0.9-percent decrease in March. In April, the index for final demand goods less foods and energy increased 0.4 percent. In contrast, prices for final demand foods and for final demand energy declined 1.0 percent and 0.4 percent, respectively.</p>

<ul><li><em><strong>Product detail: </strong></em>Among final demand goods in April, the index for general purpose machinery and equipment advanced 1.1 percent. Prices for residential electric power, fresh and dry vegetables, non-electronic cigarettes, and utility natural gas also moved up. Conversely, the index for chicken eggs dropped 39.4 percent. Prices for gasoline, gas fuels, diesel fuel, and primary basic organic chemicals also fell.</li>
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<p>Margin pressure remains on American corporations...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmEEF1.jpg?itok=kbkkdW1o" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmEEF1.jpg?itok=kbkkdW1o"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="df795643-3b75-4e8b-9a09-f49e6395efb2" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="275" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmEEF1.jpg?itok=kbkkdW1o" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>It would appear that despite all the FUD, companies are soaking up any tariff price increases and NOT passing them on to customers.</p>

<p><strong>Finally, energy prices are set to drag CPI and PPI even lower in the next month or so...</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm8B59_0.jpg?itok=Zymesh_K" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm8B59_0.jpg?itok=Zymesh_K"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a8cccc98-9654-48f9-a91d-5030ac55c7ec" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="276" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm8B59_0.jpg?itok=Zymesh_K" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>Goldman has lowered its PCE expectations: </p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>Based on the details in the PPI and CPI reports, we estimate that the core PCE price index rose 0.11% in April (vs. our expectation of 0.19% prior to today's PPI report),</strong> corresponding to a year-over-year rate of +2.46%.</em></p>

<p><em>Additionally, we expect that the headline PCE price index increased 0.10% in April, or increased 2.18% from a year earlier.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>But, but, but... the PhDs said tariffs were inflationary!!</p>
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<p>As I and John Helmer do, Gilbert Doctorow has Suspicions about Trump’s “peace negotiations”</p>
<p>TRUMP’S UKRAINE PLAN:</p>
<p>PEACE OR DECEPTION?</p>
<p><a href="https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/interview-with-professor-glenn-diesen?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1203055&amp;post_id=163567032&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=dx5km&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/interview-with-professor-glenn-diesen?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=1203055&amp;post_id=163567032&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=dx5km&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email</a></p>

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While Wall St and the Dumbshit Tech Geeks see the future in AI, the truth is AI means death for American cities and Americans’ jobs

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<p>While Wall St and the Dumbshit Tech Geeks see the future in AI, the truth is AI means death for American cities and Americans’ jobs</p>
<p>Here is Bloomberg’s report:</p>
<p>AI is expected to wipe out between 37% and 43% of white-collar jobs in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA, Boulder, Co, Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, San Francisco-Oakland-Berkely, CA, Durham-Chaple Hill, NC, Trenton-Princeton, NJ, Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, Austin-Round Rock-Georgetrown, TX, Ann Arbor, MI, Salt Lake City, UT, Boston-Cambridge-Newton MA, Huntsville, AL, Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO, Raleigh-Cary, NC, Madison, Wi</p>
<p>The more a city’s economy is oriented around white-collar knowledge work, the more exposed it is to AI.</p>
<p>If truth be known, Americans are too stupid to justify their existence.</p>
<p>Despite its reporting Bloomberg finds possible hope in AI.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-02/ai-could-automate-jobs-in-these-us-cities?cmpid=BBD030225_SUNNL&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=250302&amp;utm_campaign=sundaynl">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-03-02/ai-could-automate-jobs-in-these-us-cities?cmpid=BBD030225_SUNNL&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=250302&amp;utm_campaign=sundaynl</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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Do You Remember the Dumbshit White Democrat Government of Seattle that not only allowed but encouraged Antifa and Black Lives Matter to burn down the white business center and enabled the looting by defunding the police?

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<p>Do You Remember the Dumbshit White Democrat Government of Seattle that not only allowed but encouraged Antifa and Black Lives Matter to burn down the white business center and enabled the looting by defunding the police?</p>
<p>Well the dumbshit Democrats have seen the light:</p>
<p>Seattle City Council committee passes resolution to undo ‘defund the police’ initiatives <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-city-council-committee-passes-resolution-to-undo-defund-the-police-initiatives#google_vignette">https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-city-council-committee-passes-resolution-to-undo-defund-the-police-initiatives#google_vignette</a></p>
<p>Seattle mayor reveals $47 MILLION payroll tax deficit as companies flee the Emerald City</p>
<p>Last week, the mayor of Seattle announced that the Emerald City collected $47 million less in payroll taxes last year as large companies continue to flee the liberal oasis.</p>
<p>“In 2018, the city council, led by Marxist Councilmember Kshama Sawant, passed the so-called “Head Tax” on the payrolls of large companies to fund affordable housing.” The Camp of the Saints is alive and well in Seattle. Elected Democrat officials seem to consist of mainly foreign immigrant-invaders. Are there any Americans in the Democrat party?</p>
<p>Ideological anti-white Democrats are incapable of governing. They can only destroy.</p>
<p><a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-mayor-reveals-47-million-payroll-tax-deficit-as-companies-flee-the-emerald-city">https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-mayor-reveals-47-million-payroll-tax-deficit-as-companies-flee-the-emerald-city</a></p>

link:
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For those who have remained in ignorance of their certain future, here is a review of The Camp of the Saints

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<p>For those who have remained in ignorance of their certain future, here is a review of <em>The Camp of the Saints</em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.unz.com/article/when-reality-is-worse-than-fiction/">https://www.unz.com/article/when-reality-is-worse-than-fiction/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Comment by PCR:</p>
<p>In Raspail’s book the fall of France and all of Europe is instantaneous, with Russia following with a lag.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In our reality, the collapse is in line with the boiling of a frog.</p>
<p>In the US the Democrats are the party of mass immigration.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They opened the borders and kept them open and now are using the judiciary and media to prevent deportations.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is easy to recognize among our own politicians, professors, and media numerous counterparts to the characters in Raspail’s book.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The money of ethnic Americans is being used to finance the invasion.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As in Raspail’s book, guilt and pity prevent effective opposition to the overrunning of the country.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Consider how many immigrant-invaders in the name of multiculturalism have achieved elected positions in state, local, and federal legislatures, how many there are serving as judges and prosecutors, university professors and school teachers, and you can see the power transformation that is underway.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the idiot white countries pick fights with Russia, China, and Iran.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The feminists have transformed white women from child bearers to salary earners.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The government has made it impossible for one-earner families to exist.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The white birth rate has collapsed throughout the Western world.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In Europe white ethnic women who are raped by immigrant-invaders are more likely to be punished for their complaints, which are often judged to be racist, than are their rapists, another indication of the loss of power of white ethnics to immigrant-invaders.  Another indication is the development of no-go zones for white ethnics in their own cities.  Another indication is the rise in racial intermarriage.  White gentile ethnicities are on their way out.  They are a disappearing race.</p>

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Is DOGE Starting To Work? 'Deep TriState' Jobless Claims Surged Last Week</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 number of Americans filing for jobless benefits for the first time was flat from the prior week at 229k (the same level it was at in Jan 2022)...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm51D2.jpg?itok=1D2xn_SS" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm51D2.jpg?itok=1D2xn_SS"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="cb1bec7c-52d9-4616-b459-c7855af1dd57" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="279" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm51D2.jpg?itok=1D2xn_SS" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>Headline continuing claims remains below the Maginot Line of 1.9 million Americans...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm719.jpg?itok=Nzsvwca4" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm719.jpg?itok=Nzsvwca4"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c613f4a9-9421-4ebc-b488-0ff255910769" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="276" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm719.jpg?itok=Nzsvwca4" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p><strong>But, drilling down, the 'Deep Tristate' saw initial jobless claims spike last week...</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm3B36.jpg?itok=eqw61rU3" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm3B36.jpg?itok=eqw61rU3"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b3a139d0-eff9-4f4d-ad50-09817259bfd3" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="276" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm3B36.jpg?itok=eqw61rU3" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>...and continuing jobless claims in the 'Deep TriState' also rose as perhaps DOGE is starting to have some effects...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm97F5.jpg?itok=ZP98107B" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm97F5.jpg?itok=ZP98107B"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="bc41c697-8a90-48d3-908d-88a9d1a4e5ff" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="278" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm97F5.jpg?itok=ZP98107B" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>Finally, the chart that sums up the entire farcical FUD-fest about the US labor market and Trump's terrible tariff trauma...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmDF06.jpg?itok=3QRlmdeA" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmDF06.jpg?itok=3QRlmdeA"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="cbe856f7-998b-4728-af4b-44d9f1932118" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="271" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmDF06.jpg?itok=3QRlmdeA" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p><strong>When will the CEOs face reality?</strong></p>
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title: Why Superman is important, and other ramblings
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Ukraine Will Never Recognize Occupied Territories As Russia, Zelensky Says From Turkey</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><u>Update(1105ET)</u>: "</strong>We don’t yet know the official level of Russians, but from what we see, <strong>it looks phony</strong>," Zelensky told reporters in Ankara. So despite the Ukrainian leader earlier declaring "I am here" upon landing in Turkey, he is not in fact at the Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul.</p>

<p>This <em>'I am here' yet not actually 'there'</em> charade generated some contradictory headlines earlier on Thursday. Zelensky <strong>continues his performative gestures aimed at impressing one man: Trump</strong>. He even explained that he is sending Defense Minister Rustem Umerov to head the Ukrainian delegation for the Istanbul meeting, now likely underway, <strong>out of respect for Trump and the peace process he initiated</strong>. </p>

<p>The Kremlin side meanwhile says it's ready to make <a href="https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/ukraine-russia-talks-istanbul-turkey-intl">compromises</a>:</p>

<blockquote>
<p data-article-gutter="true" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmapfupvp000k3b6mxrxmlap3@published"><em>The head of the Russian delegation in Istanbul, Vladimir Medinsky, told Russian state media RIA that Moscow was “ready for discussions.”</em></p>

<p data-article-gutter="true" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmapg7o2m000t3b6ms08rojan@published"><em>“We are ready for discussions, for resuming the Istanbul negotiations;<strong> we are prepared for possible compromises</strong> and their discussion,” Medinsky said, referring to the last known direct talks between Russia and Ukraine that took place in Istanbul in the spring of 2022.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p data-article-gutter="true" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmapgdtf9000y3b6ma4xgwstc@published">But apparently <strong><em>not on the table</em> is the only thing which could actually end this tragic war - territorial concessions</strong>: </p>

<blockquote>
<p data-article-gutter="true" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmapgdtf9000y3b6ma4xgwstc@published"><em>Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv will never recognize parts of Ukraine that are currently occupied as parts of Russia, as he confirmed peace talks are set to go ahead.</em></p>

<p data-article-gutter="true" data-component-name="paragraph" data-editable="text" data-uri="cms.cnn.com/_components/paragraph/instances/cmapfx7p0000n3b6miuqofcui@published"><em><strong>“In all discussions – and I emphasize this – and this is my unwavering position – we do not legally recognize any of our temporarily occupied territories as Russian. This is the Ukrainian land,”</strong> Zelensky told journalists.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Still, the fact the two sides are even at the same table in Istanbul is a huge development and start.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">⚡️ Russia delegation has been empowered to negotiate with Ukrainian side — Vladimir Medinsky reacts to the lull in Istanbul talks<br><br>
'We view these talks as a continuation of negotiations BROKEN by Ukraine 3 years ago <a href="https://t.co/Kacw5hhDRM">pic.twitter.com/Kacw5hhDRM</a></p>
— RT (@RT_com) <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1923031629804478876?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>And again, everything Zelensky is doing appears designed to signal Trump - in order to keep America as Kiev's top weapons backer. "Despite the relatively low level of the Russian delegation, <strong>out of respect for President Trump</strong>, out of respect for the high level of the Turkish delegation and for President Erdogan, we still want to try to take at least the first steps towards a ceasefire, so <strong>I have decided to send our delegation to Istanbul now</strong>," Zelensky said further.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Zelensky says he is sending defense minister Umerov for direct talks with the Russians in Istanbul, so that nobody (he means Trump) could accuse Ukraine of not trying to reach peace.</p>
— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) <a href="https://twitter.com/yarotrof/status/1923021269399740524?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>* * *</p>

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<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy and close aide, Kirill Dmitriev, has praised US President Donald Trump for putting together Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul, the first such direct dialogue between the warring countries since early 2022.</p>

<p>Trump and his team have <strong>"made the impossible possible" </strong>by bringing Moscow and Kiev to the table. Dmitriev further <a href="https://x.com/kadmitriev/status/1922959414924832829">wrote on X</a> that the Istanbul meeting is happening <strong>"against all odds/fierce resistance"</strong> and that if "not derailed last-minute, this could be a historic step to peace."</p>

<p>Dmitriev also specifically named Vice President J.D. Vance, Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Secretary of State Marco Rubio - the latter two who are present in Istanbul - as <strong>major contributors to the mediation effort</strong>. The Kremlin had spent the opening years of the conflict blasting the Biden administration for constantly stoking the war and thwarting dialogue, taking Washington-Moscow relations to new historic lows.</p>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/ukrtrky.jpg?itok=EPS6SdEl" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/ukrtrky.jpg?itok=EPS6SdEl"><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="552b32d4-aaa3-4e8a-b860-00dbe6939de8" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="281" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/ukrtrky.jpg?itok=EPS6SdEl" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>Via Anadolu Agency</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p>As we <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelensky-istanbul-responds-insult-putin-sending-junior-officials-peace-talks-i-am-here">noted earlier</a>, Ukraine's President <strong>Zelensky is actually in Turkey</strong>, where he's set to meet with President Erdogan - but separately in the <strong>capital of Ankara</strong>, and has boasted that "I am here" and that Putin is not. Zelensky has even called the Russian delegation, largely composed of junior officials, <strong>"phony"</strong>. </p>

<p>President Trump meanwhile, while attending meetings in Qatar, was asked by a reporter why the American leader is not himself present in Turkey for the talks:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>"Why would he go if I’m not going?"</em></p>

<p><strong><em>"I wasn’t planning to go and I didn’t think he would if I didn’t."</em></strong></p>

<p><em>"But we have people there. Marco's doing a fantastic job, Marco's there..."</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p data-role="headline">It remains that Putin has little reason or incentive to go, with war analysts widely recognizing that he remains in the driver's seat militarily, and with Ukrainian forces against the ropes.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">‘Why would he go if I’m not going?’: Trump reacts to Putin sitting out Istanbul talks<br><br>
“I wasn’t planning to go and I didn’t think he would if I didn’t.” <a href="https://t.co/4YvqvO8gWh">pic.twitter.com/4YvqvO8gWh</a></p>
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) <a href="https://twitter.com/BowesChay/status/1922960657747497368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p data-role="headline"><strong>Zelensky has until now offered no major concessions</strong>, and issues like permanent control over Crimea and the four eastern territories remain sticking points for Moscow. Thus there are unlikely to be any major breakthroughs in Istanbul, but the <strong>fact that the two sides are even at the table is a big accomplishment</strong>.</p>

<p data-role="headline"><em>Below is an important rundown of what's expected in Istanbul and what's at stake for both sides, excerpted from fresh Responsible Statecraft analysis, <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-russia-istanbul-talks/">Istanbul 2.0: know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em</a>:</em></p>

<p data-role="headline"><em>* * *</em></p>

<blockquote>
<p data-role="headline"><strong>What has changed since then?</strong></p>

<p>Ukraine will enter the Istanbul talks in a weaker position that it held in 2022.</p>

<p>Western support for Ukraine financially and economically is not as sound as it was then. No big ticket economic aid and assistance has been made available since the G7 agreement of a $50 billion package of loans, in June 2024. While European states scratched together <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="4" data-mrf-link="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c89gpg4jpllt" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c89gpg4jpllt" mrfobservableid="3d83b61c-39c3-4844-8e66-7a285da414e5" target="_blank"><u>new economic aid</u></a> to Ukraine in April, this cannot make up for the reduction in US support.</p>

<p>In territorial terms, Russia withdrew from Kyiv as a concession to the first Istanbul talks and lost ground in Kharkiv and in Kherson in late 2022. However, Russia has gone on steadily to gain further territory in the Donbas since the end of 2023. So while both sides have scores on the board, Russia now maintains the military upper hand on the battlefield and that seems unlikely to change. These two factors in particular were behind President Trump’s February assertion that Ukraine has <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="5" data-mrf-link="https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/trump-says-ukraine-leaders-dont-have-any-cards-in-talks-on-russias-invasion" href="https://www.straitstimes.com/world/united-states/trump-says-ukraine-leaders-dont-have-any-cards-in-talks-on-russias-invasion" mrfobservableid="81ba6eb4-ee73-4ff4-9fbf-477fed315a95" target="_blank"><u>no cards to play</u></a>.</p>

<p data-role="headline"><strong>What has stayed the same?</strong></p>

<p>NATO membership is still off the table</p>

<p>The verified documents shared by the New York Times last June confirmed that Ukraine’s neutrality and non-membership of NATO was the central issue agreed upon in 2022. Ukraine was ready to become a “permanently neutral state” that would never join NATO or allow foreign forces to be based on its soil.</p>

<p>There seems no route for Ukraine to resile from that given its currently weakened negotiating position and President Trump’s stated view that NATO membership for Ukraine is <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="6" data-mrf-link="https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-not-practical-ukraine-join-nato-get-back-all-land-2025-02-12/" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-not-practical-ukraine-join-nato-get-back-all-land-2025-02-12/" mrfobservableid="6e933750-a559-4750-b74f-8e5616358413" target="_blank"><u>not practical.</u></a> Although Germany’s new foreign Minister, <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="7" data-mrf-link="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/10/7511618/" href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/10/7511618/" mrfobservableid="86641df8-c59d-41a8-b440-b27dfa2576f1" target="_blank"><u>Johann Wadephul</u></a> recently repeated the line that Ukraine’s path to NATO is irreversible, most have agreed, privately and publicly, that Ukraine’s path to NATO is a fraught if not impossible one.</p>

<p data-role="headline"><strong>Right now, just having the talks is a huge breakthrough</strong></p>

<p>The Istanbul talks would not be happening had the <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="8" data-mrf-link="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/trump-administration/" href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/trump-administration/" mrfobservableid="255b210e-699d-4692-aff0-b367d225ea00">Trump administration</a> not pushed for it so hard. We don’t need to rehash the “did they or didn’t they” debate around why Ukraine abandoned the Istanbul agreement in April 2022. What is clear, is that Ukraine became entrenched, not only in not negotiating with Russia, but in excluding Russia from all discussions on peace in Ukraine from then onward.</p>

<p>Having agreed in principle for Ukraine to accept neutral status Zelensky was pushing his own <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="9" data-mrf-link="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-is-zelenskiys-10-point-peace-plan-2022-12-28/" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/what-is-zelenskiys-10-point-peace-plan-2022-12-28/" mrfobservableid="52a4e14d-a4ae-4de8-82dd-4425a41568eb" target="_blank"><u>ten point peace plan</u></a>. This included, among other things, Russia withdrawing its troops to the pre-2014 border, i.e. giving up Crimea and the Donbass and creating a Euro-Atlantic Security Architecture, by which he meant Ukraine joining NATO. Peace summits were organized in various countries that explicitly excluded Russia, culminating in the Switzerland event on June 15, 2024.</p>

<p>At this event, President Zelensky was dug in deeper on resisting any engagement with Russia until a full withdrawal of its troops from Ukraine, which was a completely unrealistic proposal. “Russia can start negotiations with us even tomorrow without waiting for anything – if they <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="10" data-mrf-link="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/16/summit-demands-ukraines-territorial-integrity-urges-dialogue-to-end-war" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/16/summit-demands-ukraines-territorial-integrity-urges-dialogue-to-end-war" mrfobservableid="a4155b80-0e54-465c-80a0-acc4ba982bdd" target="_blank"><u>leave our legal territories</u></a>,” he said.</p>

<p>Even after President Trump was elected, <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="11" data-mrf-link="https://apnews.com/article/eu-ukraine-russia-nato-trump-support-zelenskyy-276690fb0a334c769b1631a16843a2f4" href="https://apnews.com/article/eu-ukraine-russia-nato-trump-support-zelenskyy-276690fb0a334c769b1631a16843a2f4" mrfobservableid="adf8b76b-2e69-41ff-b042-0a18472ccbeb" target="_blank"><u>European leaders</u></a> clung to the line that “only Ukraine can decide what peace means.”’ I see no circumstances in which a Kamala Harris presidency would have cajoled President Zelensky to enter into negotiations. Tomorrow’s talks wouldn’t be happening unless the Trump administration broke a whole load of Ukrainian and European eggshells to get to this point.</p>
</blockquote>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/anadolump.jpg?itok=f3rOxdAN" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/anadolump.jpg?itok=f3rOxdAN"><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="b7317284-348b-4ae0-b829-9d907dc01008" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="388" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/anadolump.jpg?itok=f3rOxdAN" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>Source: Anadolu Agency </em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p data-role="headline">And <em>Responsible Statecraft </em>continues:</p>

<blockquote>
<p data-role="headline"><strong>The biggest issue now is territory</strong></p>

<p>Even though he was wrongly derided at the time by mainstream <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="12" data-mrf-link="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/media/" href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/media/" mrfobservableid="677c1fe1-4135-4423-a611-ac52fc6c1fac">media</a>, <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="13" data-mrf-link="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/22/europe/witkoff-carlson-trump-russia-ukraine-talks-intl/index.html" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/22/europe/witkoff-carlson-trump-russia-ukraine-talks-intl/index.html" mrfobservableid="2346bfa4-2f29-4846-9d4c-32b76b884df8" target="_blank"><u>Steve Witkoff</u></a> correctly pointed out in his March interview with Tucker Carlson that the territorial issues in Ukraine will be most intractable. Russia’s decision in October 2022 to formally annex the four oblasts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk changed the calculus. However, Russia does not have full territorial control of any of those oblasts, which are cut through the middle by a hotly contested front line.</p>

<p>Resolving the line of control when the war ends is, by some margin, the most problematic challenge. This will be a hugely sensitive topic, and European allies will shoot down any major concessions to Russia, as they did when the idea surfaced that the U.S.might <em>de jure</em> recognise Russia’s occupation of <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="14" data-mrf-link="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/world/trump-ukraine-crimea-explainer-intl/index.html" href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/25/world/trump-ukraine-crimea-explainer-intl/index.html" mrfobservableid="56291079-0b2c-4e75-9089-cf4666fe1976" target="_blank"><u>Crimea</u></a>.</p>

<p>The most obvious settlement is a de facto recognition of occupation, a Cyprus-style scenario, that does not stand in the way of Ukraine’s future membership of the European Union. Even that will require detailed agreement on issues around demilitarization of the line of control and enforcing any ceasefire.</p>

<p data-role="headline"><strong>Sanctions are probably tricky, but also tractable</strong></p>

<p>As <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="15" data-mrf-link="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/lift-sanctions-on-russia/" href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/lift-sanctions-on-russia/" mrfobservableid="85112044-af09-4c22-bae0-d5ebd31c0d41" target="_self"><u>I have said before</u></a>, there is enormous scope to a plan that allows for the immediate lifting of the bulk of zero-impact measures, phasing out the remainder at points agreed to by both sides. The toughest issue remains the $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, mostly held in Belgium. Russia has shown a <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="16" data-mrf-link="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-is-the-status-of-russias-frozen-sovereign-assets/#:~:text=Reuters%20reported%20in%20February%20that%20Russia%20was%20prepared,some%20of%20the%20money%20goes%20to%20Russian-controlled%20Ukraine." href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-is-the-status-of-russias-frozen-sovereign-assets/#:~:text=Reuters%20reported%20in%20February%20that%20Russia%20was%20prepared,some%20of%20the%20money%20goes%20to%20Russian-controlled%20Ukraine." mrfobservableid="01ee7ccc-02d0-4916-8d02-e7662c7a6d5d" target="_blank"><u>willingness to concede</u></a> this funding to support reconstruction in Ukraine, including those parts that Russia occupies.</p>

<p>But there is texture here. Freeing up those funds for reconstruction would immediately remove the source of interest payments that are meeting Ukraine’s obligations on its $50 billion in <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="17" data-mrf-link="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/russian-assets-ukraine/" href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/russian-assets-ukraine/" mrfobservableid="ed969ba1-cdf5-46c3-b1a5-cf44dc73da91" target="_self"><u>debt to the G7</u></a>, agreed to in June 2024. But the more general policy question arises, how much of the freed up funding would be spent in Ukraine itself and how much in Russian-occupied Ukraine, where most of the war damage has occurred? The U.S. must keep the pressure on to ensure the talks stay on track.</p>

<p>A U.S. presence in Istanbul will be vital, to prevent, in particular, Ukraine from bailing on the talks. That’s why sending <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="18" data-mrf-link="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/politics/government/trump-envoys-witkoff-and-kellogg-to-go-to-turkey-for-russia-ukraine-talks-sources-say/ar-AA1EGS2H?ocid=BingNewsSerp" href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/politics/government/trump-envoys-witkoff-and-kellogg-to-go-to-turkey-for-russia-ukraine-talks-sources-say/ar-AA1EGS2H?ocid=BingNewsSerp" mrfobservableid="9950f75a-e28f-4fcd-a2d6-b803d1003d5f" target="_blank"><u>Steve Witkoff and Keith Kellogg</u></a> makes sense. The former is trusted by the Russian side while the latter has built relationships in Ukraine. Their presence serves to keep the process moving forward until a deal can be pushed over the line and the fighting can stop.</p>

<p>Bear in mind that the 2022 talks ran for a month and a half and the circumstances have materially changed as I have indicated above. While there has been speculation that <a cmp-ltrk="Article Links" cmp-ltrk-idx="19" data-mrf-link="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-thinking-of-going-to-turkey-for-proposed-zelenskyy-putin-peace-talks/ar-AA1EEHH9?ocid=BingNewsSerp" href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-thinking-of-going-to-turkey-for-proposed-zelenskyy-putin-peace-talks/ar-AA1EEHH9?ocid=BingNewsSerp" mrfobservableid="7e194de6-67c6-4aa6-9527-d1688fd049a0" target="_blank"><u>President Trump</u></a> might drop into Istanbul, I am not sure that this is necessary if President Putin doesn’t himself attend. Knowing the Russians, I assess that Putin will want his own “‘meeting moment” with the U.S. President on terms that the Russian side can better choreograph. Indeed, that may be a prize for Russia’s engagement in the process, given its desire for a more comprehensive reset of relations with the U.S.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Supreme Court Wrestles With Nationwide Injunctions In Birthright Citizenship Case</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>Update (1403ET): </em>The Supreme Court on Thursday <strong>grappled with how far federal judges could go in issuing sweeping blocks on the executive branch - </strong>such as President Donald Trump's order restricting birthright citizenship.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/image_92%2841%29_1.jpg?itok=qYcY5g3d" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/image_92%2841%29_1.jpg?itok=qYcY5g3d"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="f827dc69-2072-4e50-bd37-b87eeb38b15a" 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_92%2841%29_1.jpg?itok=qYcY5g3d" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>As the <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-wrestles-with-nationwide-injunctions-in-birthright-citizenship-case-5858275?utm_source=rtnewsnoe&amp;src_src=rtnewsnoe&amp;utm_campaign=rtbreaking-2025-05-15-2&amp;src_cmp=rtbreaking-2025-05-15-2&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=access0&amp;est=u9a5ILJr8cEmsZH%2FVhb%2BaKRDeChgorsO5R4BU9KPSb47odHN4ZiIAv1NOngfjSo%3D"><em>Epoch Times</em></a> notes, their comments came during oral argument over the administration’s request that the high court remove three nationwide injunctions on Trump’s order.</p>

<p><strong>Those nationwide blocks are among the many issued by federal judges that have halted a range of Trump administration policies.</strong></p>

<p>U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, who argued for the Trump administration, told the justices that <strong>nationwide injunctions had been used in ways that exceeded judges’ authority</strong> under Article III of the Constitution. More specifically,<strong> </strong>he and others have criticized nationwide injunctions for granting relief on a broad basis rather than just for the parties before the court.</p>

<p><strong>Some of the justices, however, expressed concern about how other people purportedly harmed by Trump’s policy would get relief without a nationwide block.</strong></p>

<p>At least two justices—Justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor—indicated that they believed Trump’s order limiting birthright citizenship breached the 14th Amendment and that large numbers of people were therefore harmed by it.</p>

<p>Meanwhile here's Ketanji...</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Kentaji Brown Jackson just argued that nationwide injunctions by district court judges to block Trump’s agenda “is actually what we would want.”<br><br>
Completely insane. <a href="https://t.co/Mj6z3Sh0Eo">pic.twitter.com/Mj6z3Sh0Eo</a></p>
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) <a href="https://twitter.com/_johnnymaga/status/1923038033776877741?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>The hearing was unusual in that it focused less on legal arguments on whether Trump’s birthright citizenship policy runs afoul of the 14th Amendment and instead concentrated on the legality of the practice of nationwide injunctions. More in-depth questions about birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment will continue playing out in the court system.</p>

<p><strong>Kagan told Sauer that if she were in his shoes, there was no way she would bring the case to the Supreme Court and noted that multiple federal judges had ruled against the administration</strong>. Following some intense questioning from Kagan, Justice Neil Gorsuch said she asked questions better than he could. Both of them seemed concerned that without nationwide injunctions, those affected by the order would have to undergo a lengthy legal process to get relief.</p>

<p>Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to push back on this point, saying that the Supreme Court had intervened quickly in previous cases, suggesting it could provide quick relief in the future.</p>

<p><em>This is a breaking story and will be updated.</em></p>

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<p>*  *  *</p>

<p><a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/05/15/a-modest-request-the-supreme-court-hears-challenge-to-national-or-universal-injunctions/"><em>Authored by Jonathan Turley,</em></a></p>

<p><strong>Today, the United States Supreme Court will hear three consolidated cases in <em>Trump v. CASA </em>on the growing use of national or universal injunctions.</strong> This is a matter submitted on the “shadow docket” and the underlying cases concern the controversy over “birthright citizenship.” However, the merits of those claims are not at issue. Instead, the Trump Administration has made a “modest request” for the Court to limit the scope of lower-court injunctions to their immediate districts and parties, challenging the right of such courts to bind an Administration across the nation.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/ussupremecourtwestfacade_2.jpg?itok=KmhcTNE9" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/ussupremecourtwestfacade_2.jpg?itok=KmhcTNE9"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9ab07db4-682c-441f-b771-310b6f1bcc24" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="356" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/ussupremecourtwestfacade_2.jpg?itok=KmhcTNE9" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>The case is the consolidation of three matters: <em><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/trump-v-casa-inc/">Trump v. CASA</a></em> out of  Maryland; <em><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/trump-v-washington/">Trump v. Washington</a></em> out of Washington State, and <em><a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/trump-v-new-jersey/">Trump v. New Jersey</a></em>, out of Massachusetts. These cases also present standing issues since the Administration challenges the argument that there is a cognizable “injury” to individuals who may travel to the states bringing the actions.</p>

<p><strong>However, the main question is the scope of injunctions.</strong></p>

<p>As I have <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2025/04/28/here-we-are-again-federal-district-courts-piling-on-injunctions-to-stop-trump/">previously</a> written, district court judges have issued a record number of injunctions in the first 100 days of the Trump Administration. </p>

<p>Under President George W. <strong>Bush, there were only six</strong> such injunctions, which increased to <strong>12 under Obama.</strong> </p>

<p>However, when<strong> Trump came to office, he faced 64</strong> such orders in his first term.</p>

<p>When <strong>Biden and the Democrats returned to office, it fell back to 14</strong>. </p>

<p>That was not due to more modest measures. </p>

<p>Biden did precisely what Trump did in seeking to negate virtually all of his predecessors’ orders and then seek sweeping new legal reforms. He was repeatedly found to have violated the Constitution, but there was no torrent of preliminary injunctions at the start of his term.</p>

<p>Yet, when Trump returned to office, the number of national injunctions soared again in the first 100 days and surpassed the number for the entirety of Biden’s term.</p>

<p><strong>This is a rare argument.</strong> </p>

<p>First, it is a shadow docket filing that usually results in summary decisions without oral argument. Moreover, this matter came after what is commonly viewed as the final day for oral arguments. The Court granted a rare late oral argument, reflecting that multiple justices view this matter sufficiently serious to warrant a break from standard operating procedures.</p>

<p><strong>Rather than arguing a “question presented” on birthright citizenship, the Administration is solely looking for limits on the district courts as appeals continue on the “important constitutional questions” raised by birthright citizenship.</strong></p>

<p>The Administration argues that the Constitution does not give judges the power to issue universal injunctions and that courts are limited to addressing the cases before them in a given district. The Administration acknowledges that class actions can create the basis for universal injunctions, offering a moderate resolution to the Court. In such cases, if the parties can meet the standard for a national class, they can seek a national or universal injunction.</p>

<p>In today’s arguments (which I will be covering for Fox and on X), we can expect to hear from justices who have previously been critical of universal injunctions, including Justice Clarence Thomas, who, in his concurring opinion in <em><a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/17-965_h315.pdf">Trump v. Hawaii</a></em>, called them “legally and historically dubious.”</p>

<p>Likewise, Justices Gorsuch and Alito have criticized such injunctions. In a prior dissent to an emergency filing in Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, Alito was joined by Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh in stating that the government “has a strong argument that the District Court’s order violates the principle that a federal court may not issue an equitable remedy that is ‘more burdensome than necessary to’ redress the plaintiff’s injuries.”</p>

<p><strong>Many of us will be watching three members the most closely: Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett. </strong>Roberts is the ultimate institutionalist, and we should see in his argument how he views the impact of such injunctions on the court system as a whole. He is very protective of the courts’ inherent authority but may also have misgivings about the scope of these orders.</p>

<p>During the Biden Administration, Justice Kagan has previously criticized universal injunctions. In an interview at Northwestern University Law School, <strong>Kagan flagged the “forum shopping” by litigants in filing cases before favorable courts:</strong></p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>“You look at something like that and you think, that can’t be right. In the Trump years, people used to go to the Northern District of California, and in the Biden years, they go to Texas. It just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.”</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Justice Barrett previously joined with Kavanaugh in stating that the power of district courts to enter a universal injunction “is an important question that could warrant our review in the future.”</p>

<p><strong>The argument today will start at 10 am</strong> and I will be doing a running <a href="https://x.com/jonathanturley?lang=en">review of the arguments on X</a>.</p>

<p>U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer will argue the government’s case.</p>

<p>Jeremy Feigenbaum, New Jersey’s solicitor general, will argue for the state and local governments and  Kelsi Corkran, the Supreme Court director at Georgetown’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, will argue for the private individuals and groups.</p>

<p><em>Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University where he teaches a course on the Supreme Court and the Constitution.</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><strong>Headline industrial production held steady</strong> in April, driven by utilities production, while <strong>manufacturing production declined 0.4%</strong> due to decreased production of vehicles and nondurable goods.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmB833.jpg?itok=L-y1T86d" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmB833.jpg?itok=L-y1T86d"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4881119b-7561-4899-8ac4-401342af9aa8" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="277" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmB833.jpg?itok=L-y1T86d" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>The 0.4% decrease in manufacturing production (followed an upwardly revised 0.4% gain a month earlier) was the <strong>first decline since October 2024 and worse than the expected 0.3% decline</strong>...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/z_1.jpg?itok=NSASW-0Q" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/z_1.jpg?itok=NSASW-0Q"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="55870393-fd51-4d36-912c-063c9f2eed55" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="274" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/z_1.jpg?itok=NSASW-0Q" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>However, as the chart above shows, despite the decline, <strong>upward revisions raised production by 1.2% YoY - the biggest rise since Oct 2022 (tariff-front-running?).</strong></p>

<p><strong>Output at utilities increased, </strong>while mining and energy extraction dropped.</p>

<p>The decrease in April factory output reflected <strong>declining production of motor vehicles, computers and apparel.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_07-05-04.jpg?itok=Uj5_TQ_t" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-05-15_07-05-04.jpg?itok=Uj5_TQ_t"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="e5c2df73-b027-4e2d-871d-1cfab9732418" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="306" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/2025-05-15_07-05-04.jpg?itok=Uj5_TQ_t" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>The Fed’s report showed <strong>capacity utilization at factories, a measure of potential output being used, fell to 76.8%</strong>.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm13CF.jpg?itok=IochYyS6" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm13CF.jpg?itok=IochYyS6"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="fede5215-f54f-4670-accc-6dd34a9ac9f6" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="280" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm13CF.jpg?itok=IochYyS6" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Does April's decline mean we reached peak tariff-front-running? And will that drag down 'hard' data?</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>Coinbase, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, was hit by a $20 million extortion attempt after cybercriminals recruited "multiple contractors or employees working in support roles outside the United States to collect information from internal Coinbase systems to which they had access", and to leak user data, the company said according to <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/cyber-criminals-steal-coinbase-customer-data-20-m-ransom">CoinTelegraph</a>.</p>

<p>According to a <a href="https://www.coinbase.com/blog/protecting-our-customers-standing-up-to-extortionists">May 15 blog post </a>and an <a href="https://t.co/WoJ9LaUcgg">8K filing with the SEC</a>, Coinbase said a group of external actors bribed and coordinated with several customer support contractors to access internal systems and steal limited user account data.</p>

<p>“These insiders abused their access to customer support systems to steal the account data for a small subset of customers,” Coinbase said. In an email to clients, the exchange said that the leaked information "did not include your password, seed phrase, private keys, or any other information that would allow someone to directly access your account or your funds and Coinbase Prime was untouched"; but the hack could have included information like:</p>

<ul><li>Personal identifiers (e.g., name, date of birth, masked social security numbers (last 4 digits), masked bank account numbers and some bank account identifiers, address, phone number, email address)</li>
	<li>Images of Government identification information (e.g., driver’s license number, passport number, national identity card number)</li>
	<li>Account information (e.g., transaction history, balance, transfers, date you opened your account)</li>
</ul><p>Less than 1% of Coinbase’s monthly transacting users’ data was affected by the attack, the company said.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Cyber criminals bribed and recruited rogue overseas support agents to pull personal data on &lt;1% of Coinbase MTUs. No passwords, private keys, or funds were exposed. Prime accounts are untouched. We will reimburse impacted customers. More here: <a href="https://t.co/SidVn59JCV">https://t.co/SidVn59JCV</a></p>
— Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) <a href="https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1922967576209998133?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>After stealing the data, the attackers attempted to extort $20 million worth of Bitcoin from Coinbase in exchange for not disclosing the breach. Coinbase refused the demand. Instead, the company offered a $20 million reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the scheme.</p>

<p>In 2024, <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-most-targeted-crypto-brand-scammers" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">Coinbase was the</a> most impersonated cryptocurrency brand by scammers.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/phished%20exchanges.jpg?itok=JL3dIXdL" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/phished%20exchanges.jpg?itok=JL3dIXdL"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="131bb3b4-0310-43a4-9616-3a071eef552c" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="711" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/phished%20exchanges.jpg?itok=JL3dIXdL" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Coinbase said it will reimburse users who were tricked into sending cryptocurrency to phishing scammers, with expected remediation and reimbursement expenses ranging from $180 million to $400 million.</p>

<p>The crypto exchange <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978825000094/coin-20250514.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" text="null" title="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1679788/000167978825000094/coin-20250514.htm">disclosed</a> the estimate in an 8-K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on May 15, noting the expenses relate to “voluntary customer reimbursements” and other remediation efforts.</p>

<ul></ul><p>The attackers have been approaching the exchange’s overseas customer support agents for months, aiming to “bribe” them in exchange for customer information, said Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong in a May 15 X <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1922967787309256807" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null">post</a>.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="zxx" xml:lang="zxx"><a href="https://t.co/evpIBMFvRW">https://t.co/evpIBMFvRW</a> <a href="https://t.co/f6UPdkL5R0">pic.twitter.com/f6UPdkL5R0</a></p>
— Brian Armstrong (@brian_armstrong) <a href="https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/1922967787309256807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>The exchange said that following the attack it would strengthen its internal data management processes and relocate some of its customer support operations to avoid similar incidents.</p>

<p>Social engineering schemes are a growing concern for Coinbase users. Blockchain security analyst ZachXBT <a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/45-million-stolen-coinbase-users-last-week-zack-xbt" rel="" target="_self" text="null" title="https://cointelegraph.com/news/45-million-stolen-coinbase-users-last-week-zack-xbt">estimated that users lost around $45 million</a> to phishing schemes in the week leading up to May 7.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/zachxbt.jpg?itok=O_pcKFIf" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/zachxbt.jpg?itok=O_pcKFIf"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="ed2bc9e7-b81a-4808-be45-6f7b458f7c1f" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="205" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/zachxbt.jpg?itok=O_pcKFIf" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>The blockchain security analyst previously claimed that social engineering scams cost Coinbase users over<a data-ct-non-breakable="null" href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-accused-ignoring-security-scams" rel="null" target="null" text="null" title="null"> $300 million annually</a>, Cointelegraph reported on Feb. 4.</p>
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<p>Infrastructures, sécurité, eau potable, protection de la jeunesse : son mandat s'annonce chargé.</p>

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title: Green NGOs not to blame for planning backlog, says SF
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Eoin-O-Broin.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin has defended environmental NGOs, insisting they are not responsible for recent planning delays, after strong criticism by the CEO of Uisce Éireann who said environmentally-based planning objections were costing the state “billions.”</strong></p>
<p>Ó Broin’s comments follow remarks made last week by Uisce Éireann CEO Niall Gleeson, who argued that planning objections from environmental groups and activists were significantly delaying major projects, resulting in increased costs for the state.</p>
<p>As <a href="https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/politics/uisce-eireann-planning-objections-cost-35200000">reported by <em>The Irish Mirror</em></a>, Gleeson specifically criticised groups he accused of “holding up processes on the basis of being environmental crusaders,” calling them costly to taxpayers and harmful to the common good.</p>
<p>Speaking to Gript at Leinster House this week, Sinn Féin’s housing spokesman said judicial reviews and planning objections were an inevitable part of the democratic planning process, regardless of personal opinions.</p>
<p>“People are going to take judicial reviews, whether you like it or I like it,” he said.</p>
<p>Ó Broin was asked about the case of An Taisce, Ireland’s oldest State-funded environmental NGO, which was embroiled in a controversial saga in 2021 and 2022 where they serially objected to a €140 million Glanbia cheese plant on environmental grounds, appealing the decision and dragging out the process.</p>
<p>Ó Broin emphasised that An Taisce’s legal actions are funded entirely through their own resources, not state funding.</p>
<p>“An Taisce don’t and can’t use any state funding for any of the litigation they take on any planning applications,” he explained.&amp;#x20;</p>
<p>“The state funding they receive is for a series of state-supported programs, particularly around environmental awareness in schools and environmental awareness of some of our public utilities.”</p>
<p>He maintained the primary issue was inadequate resources provided by the government to local councils, An Bord Pleanála, and the High Court, rather than the actions of NGOs.</p>
<p>“[We need to] make sure that if somebody’s going to lodge an appeal to the board, or if somebody’s going to initiate a judicial review, everybody knows how long that’s going to take,” he said.</p>
<p>“If adequate resources, in terms of staffing, were put into the councils, the board, and the High Court – and if every aspect of that process was statutorily timelined -then we would have absolute certainty, and there wouldn’t be time-wasting.”</p>
<p>He highlighted the Greater Dublin Drainage project, noting significant delays despite judicial review action being initiated years ago.</p>
<p>“That’s nothing to do with the people who took the JR – that’s to do with a lack of resourcing for the board by government,” Ó Broin stated.</p>
<p>He further expressed concern over the government’s tendency to blame external parties rather than addressing internal issues directly.</p>
<p>“I get nervous when I hear government backbenchers or government ministers blame other people for failures that are squarely on the government,” he said. “Put in place statutory timelines. Put in place the resources. And those issues will be dealt with by the appropriate bodies in a timely manner.”</p>
<p>This week, Sinn Féin moved a Dáil motion calling for increased investment and staffing in water, electricity, and planning infrastructures to address ongoing delays in housing and infrastructure projects.</p>


guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330685
title: Gibney replaced as SocDems Foreign Affairs spokesperson
author: ;Ben Scallan
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Sinead-Gibney.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a media outlet that blames everything on the “far right” in Ireland, then you don’t have to go far to find one. If, by contrast, you are looking for a media outlet that looks beyond that cheap sloganeering, and tries to understand and report on the real concerns held by ordinary people – and a good few prominent people, albeit privately – then that is what we try to do here.</p>
<p>But we cannot do it without your support, and your subscription.</p>
<p>We reject Government funding, because, in our view, that would be the end of our independence. The moment we did so, we would begin looking over our shoulder, and wondering if our coverage of a particular issue might lead to that money being taken away. In time – not all at once, but slowly and inexorably – we would become just another safe, consensus, state-funded voice.</p>
<p>But there’s a bargain to be struck here: If you value our independence, then you must support it. If you want us to be answerable to you, then you must take a stake in our work.</p>
<p>What we try to do here is to be open, honest, and brave. That does not mean that you will always agree with us. It does mean that there will be times when we will annoy you, and publish things you disagree with: That’s part of the deal. We are independent, not servants of one cause, or another.</p>
<p>That is what media is supposed to be, but too often in Ireland no longer is. We are trying to change that, and we need your help. I am, therefore, asking for it, and would deeply appreciate a subscription at the level you can afford.</p>
<p>With gratitude,</p>
<p><strong>John</strong></p>


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title: What have US President Donald Trump’s tariff policies achieved?
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Trump's policies have roiled global markets and left businesses stumped on how to plan for the foreseeable future.

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As Vladimir Putin rejects Volodymyr Zelenskyy's proposal for a face-to-face meeting, the EU is readying penalties.

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title: US Homebuilder Sentiment Slumps To Lowest Since 2023
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">US Homebuilder Sentiment Slumps To Lowest Since 2023</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>Confidence among US homebuilders slumped in May to the lowest level since late 2023 as the NAHB sentiment index tumbled 6 points to 34 (well below the 40 expected)...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmFDF2.jpg?itok=wVEMmQbq" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmFDF2.jpg?itok=wVEMmQbq"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="bf932e08-b03c-4835-a751-93e87fc4cfa6" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="276" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmFDF2.jpg?itok=wVEMmQbq" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p><strong>All three components that make up the index fell,</strong> with a measure of expected sales in the next six months sliding to an 18-month low. </p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmF6CF_0.jpg?itok=LdJ1lAyY" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmF6CF_0.jpg?itok=LdJ1lAyY"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="14bc3faa-dc9c-4df2-9697-84b68f3a0a5b" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="277" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmF6CF_0.jpg?itok=LdJ1lAyY" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>A gauge of present sales dropped to the lowest since late 2022, while traffic of prospective buyers was the weakest in 1 1/2 years.</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>“The spring home buying season has gotten off to a slow start as persistent elevated interest rates, policy uncertainty and building material cost factors hurt builder sentiment in May,”</strong></em> NAHB Chairman Buddy Hughes, a builder and developer from Lexington, North Carolina, said in a statement.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Of course, we all know who is to blame for this...</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>“Policy uncertainty stemming in large part from the stop-and-start tariff issues has hurt builder confidence but the initial trade arrangements with the United Kingdom and China are a welcome development,” said NAHB Chief Economist Robert Dietz. </em></p>

<p><em><strong>“Still, the overall actions on tariffs in recent weeks have had a negative impact on builders, as 78% reported difficulties pricing their homes recently due to uncertainty around material prices.”</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Let's not forget that new mortgage rates are still sky-high relative to 'average' existing mortgage rates and homebuilders can't afford to subsidize that difference forever...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm6EFF.jpg?itok=xj9AhvTC" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm6EFF.jpg?itok=xj9AhvTC"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="db086b2d-f035-45ef-a70a-c1f11da08818" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="274" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm6EFF.jpg?itok=xj9AhvTC" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>In May, 34% of builders reported cutting prices, the largest share since December 2023, NAHB said. The share of builders reporting using sales incentives was unchanged at 61%.</p>

<p><strong>The only thing is, homeBUYER sentiment has been in the shitter for months because of high rates and lack of affordability...</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmCEB7.jpg?itok=jI2kBKOe" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmCEB7.jpg?itok=jI2kBKOe"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0b9d8a2b-de4b-4208-a7bb-63fcb004dfaf" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="278" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmCEB7.jpg?itok=jI2kBKOe" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Maybe, homeBUILDERS are finally waking up to reality as Upton Sinclair said: <em><strong>"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."</strong></em></p>
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<p>Cette pause survient en plein milieu du témoignage d'un ex-coéquipier des accusés, Tyler Steenbergen.</p>

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title: Le Bloc contestera en Cour le résultat de l’élection dans Terrebonne – 15 mai 2025
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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2165284/vol-etalage-canada-fleau-commercants
title: Offensive des commerçants du pays contre le fléau du vol à l’étalage
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<p>Environ 9 milliards de dollars de marchandises ont été volées sur les tablettes au Canada en 2024.</p>

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title: Lezioni chiave dall’escalation recente tra India e Pakistan
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<p><strong><em>I decisori indiani non hanno saputo gestire la crisi in modo adeguato, causando gravi danni al Paese.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>I recenti sviluppi nel conflitto tra India e Pakistan indicano che Nuova Delhi ha subito una significativa umiliazione militare. Nonostante il cessate il fuoco mediato presumibilmente da Washington, le notizie suggeriscono che le ostilità continuano, il che implica che l’accordo non è mai stato rispettato o è stato rapidamente violato da una delle parti.</p>
<p>Non è chiaro se Islamabad abbia abbandonato la via della pace dopo aver ottenuto un vantaggio sul campo di battaglia o se sia stata l’India, non volendo accettare la sconfitta militare, a scegliere di riprendere le azioni offensive. Il fatto rimane: le tensioni sono lungi dall’essere risolte e la percezione internazionale è che l’India abbia gravemente sottovalutato le capacità di risposta del Pakistan.</p>
<p>È sorprendente, da qualsiasi punto di vista, che gli strateghi indiani abbiano agito come se potessero lanciare attacchi all’interno del territorio di una potenza nucleare senza subire gravi ritorsioni. Si tratta di un grave errore di calcolo, che rivela dilettantismo politico e gravi fallimenti nell’intelligence militare.</p>
<p>Ancora più preoccupante è la condotta diplomatica di Nuova Delhi al culmine della tensione. Nonostante i tentativi di mediazione dell’Iran, paese con cui l’India intrattiene relazioni strategiche di lunga data, i funzionari indiani sono arrivati al punto di insultare pubblicamente il ministro degli Esteri iraniano, con un alto ufficiale militare che lo ha definito “maiale” sulla televisione nazionale durante la sua visita ufficiale nella capitale indiana. Questo comportamento non solo mina i rapporti diplomatici fondamentali, ma mette anche in evidenza il disorientamento e l’arroganza che attualmente caratterizzano alcuni segmenti chiave della società indiana.</p>
<p>Il contesto più ampio di questa crisi diventa ancora più preoccupante se si considera il coinvolgimento diretto di “esperti” israeliani nell’apparato decisionale indiano dopo l’attacco di Pahalgam. La decisione di chiamare consulenti militari da Israele non è né neutrale né efficace. La storia recente delle Forze di Difesa Israeliane (IDF) nell’affrontare nemici asimmetrici è, nella migliore delle ipotesi, discutibile: i suoi ripetuti fallimenti contro Hezbollah, Hamas e altri avversari apparentemente “più deboli” in Medio Oriente avrebbero dovuto servire da monito all’India.</p>
<p>È a dir poco imprudente che una grande potenza come l’India affidi una parte sostanziale della sua strategia di difesa nazionale a una dottrina militare straniera la cui efficacia è sempre più problematica e dubbia. L’ossessione di Israele per le dimostrazioni di forza sproporzionate, unita alla tendenza a sottovalutare gli avversari più piccoli, sembra aver contagiato il pensiero strategico indiano in questo recente episodio.</p>
<p>New Delhi si trova ora in una situazione delicata: cerca di mantenere la sua immagine di potenza regionale rispettabile, ma non può nascondere i fallimenti operativi e diplomatici delle ultime settimane. La risposta del Pakistan, al contrario, è stata efficace dal punto di vista militare e coordinata dal punto di vista politico, cosa che l’India non è riuscita a fare durante lo scontro.</p>
<p>Nel frattempo, la comunità internazionale osserva con crescente preoccupazione l’escalation delle tensioni tra le due potenze nucleari. Aumentano i timori di un conflitto più ampio e prolungato, e l’impreparazione dell’India nella gestione della crisi non fa che accentuare queste ansie.</p>
<p>Questo caso dovrebbe servire da lezione. La strategia militare richiede sobrietà, precisione e, soprattutto, realismo. Sottovalutare il nemico, insultare alleati di lunga data e importare dottrine militari fallimentari è una strada sicura verso il disastro strategico.</p>
<p>Se l’India desidera preservare la sua stabilità, la sua sovranità e la sua posizione internazionale, deve rivalutare non solo la sua posizione nei confronti del Pakistan, ma anche l’intero quadro decisionale strategico, compresa la pericolosa influenza di consulenti stranieri che conoscono meglio la propaganda che le vittorie reali.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Is 'Soft' Survey Data About To Explode Higher?</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>For all the<strong> terrified FUD being spread that 'soft' sentiment surveys</strong> are the real deal and 'hard' data is simply not reflecting the terrible Trump-tariff-driven economic chaos... yet... it appears the establishment economists may have to rethink their ideas as - just like in Q2 2023 - 'soft' survey data is starting to reverse higher as 'hard' data refuses to bend the knee to the terror...</p>

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<p>Source: Bloomberg</p>

<p>The jump this morning was driven by a shocking (to some) surge in the <a href="https://www.philadelphiafed.org/surveys-and-data/regional-economic-analysis/mbos-2025-05">Philly Fed Business Outlook Survey</a> which surged from -26.4 to -4.0 (considerably better than the -11.0 expected). <strong>Even more notably, the 6 months-ahead business conditions index rose by 40.3pt to +47.2.</strong></p>

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<p>The composition of the report was mixed, as the <strong>employment (+16.3pt to +16.5) and new orders (+41.7pt to +7.5) components both increased</strong> while the shipments component declined (-3.9pt to -13.0). </p>

<p>The <strong>prices paid (+8.8pt to +59.8) and prices received (+12.9pt to +43.6) measures both increased...</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfmFCDE.jpg?itok=cG3Wc6sH" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfmFCDE.jpg?itok=cG3Wc6sH"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6b39e051-2c05-4852-9c3f-1ca48b191a9d" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="296" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfmFCDE.jpg?itok=cG3Wc6sH" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>And looking our six months, Prices Paid are expected to decline modestly while New Orders and Employment expectations surged...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/bfm3885.jpg?itok=f2hYnBxZ" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/bfm3885.jpg?itok=f2hYnBxZ"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c8f62c61-266b-4ef1-8a68-08e5431686d1" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="296" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/bfm3885.jpg?itok=f2hYnBxZ" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Did we just pass peak pessimism? </p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>As Bloomberg reports, aggregating survey components using a method similar to the ISM Manufacturing PMI, both<strong> indexes rose and pointed toward expansion in May. </strong></em></p>

<p><em>The New York index rose to 51.1 from 49.3, and the Philadelphia index rose to 51.2 from 45.3. <strong>That suggests the ISM manufacturing PMI will likely rise in May, from April’s low base.</strong></em></p>
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<p>Will the whining establishment elites fall back to the old "just wait and see" argument... or some "transitory" argument for why suddenly optimism appears to peeking out from behind the dark cloud?</p>
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<p><strong><em>How are Syria’s civilians being protected today? Simple answer: those being gang raped, impoverished and murdered are not doing not too well.</em></strong></p>
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<p>When British war correspondent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Behr_(journalist)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Edward Behr</a> overheard a BBC reporter yell has “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&amp;search=Anyone+Here+Been+Raped+and+Speaks+English&amp;title=Special:Search&amp;ns0=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anyone here been raped and speak English</a>?” at a group of nuns being airlifted out of the newly liberated Zaire, it inspired the title of his delightful autobiography, which is full of the sorts of quips, anecdotes and yarns such salt of the earth charlatans teem with. Such a funny man!</p>
<p>Irish gigolo <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_O'Donnell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peadar O’Donnell</a>, who was living the easy life just outside of Barcelona, when the Spanish Civil War erupted, was cut from the same depraved cloth. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50724571-salud-an-irishman-in-spain" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Salud,</a> his screed about his time whoring about Barcelona at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, is, far and away, the sickest and most depraved book ever to see ink. O’Donnell not only orgasms at the wanton torching of churches and his buddies forcing kids to defecate on church vestments, but he excuses it by referencing similar events he imagined happened in the fictional Ireland of his pampered youth. Looting his way into Barcelona with a bunch of anarchists, O’Donnell stops to watch “fascists” being summarily executed and he rejoices at convents being sacked and eloquent idiots like himself sending illiterate women to wanton deaths. He excuses his anarchist buddies’ war crimes by lying that priests are all narcissistic, money-grabbing pigs and he then chortles that there might be something wrong with his moral compass. This gigolo finds it hilarious that sixty captured Little Sisters of the Poor nuns were cowering “like wild animals” as this animal puts it, in the hold of a coal boat and he claims he knows of priceless heirlooms being stored in their convents. On p152, he scoffs at Irish politicians who “made the issue very simple. You were either in favour of burning churches and all that or you were against burning churches and all that” even though that alone is a far more incisive analysis than his own puke-inducing screed, which helped to popularise the war crimes his cronies committed against the Spanish people during those years.</p>
<p>His comradeship of heroes put the parish priest of Navalmoral through a parody of Christ’s Crucifixion. They murdered the Bishop of Jaén, Manuel Basulto y Jiménez, and his sister in front of a two thousand-strong mob O’Donnell swears were the salt of the earth. They threw the parish priest of Ciempozuelos into a corral with fighting bulls, where he was gored into unconsciousness. Afterwards, the priest’s right ear was sliced off to imitate the feat of a matador after a successful bullfight. The bishops of Siguenza Lleida, Cuenca, Barbastro, Segorbe, Jaén, Ciudad Real, Almeria, Guadix, Barcelona, Teruel and Tarragona were among the victims of O’Donnell’s comradeship of heroes. So too were 4,172 diocesan priests, 2,364 monks and friars, 259 Claretians, 226 Franciscans, 204 Piarists, 176 Brothers of Mary, 165 Christian Brothers, 155 Augustinians, 132 Dominicans, and 114 Jesuits. In Barbastro, 88% of all priests were killed, in Lleida, 66%, in Tortosa, 44%, in Toledo 49%, in Malaga 50%.</p>
<p>Though I hope to shortly return to the killing fields of Spain and the Congo, for now, let me say that much worse than even all that is playing out in Syria, where <a href="https://taigs.com/universities-expel-all-alawites-druze/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunni students have driven their fellow Druze, Alawi and Christian students</a> from their campuses, where <a href="https://taigs.com/save-all-alawite-girls-sold-as-sex-slaves/">Alawi girls are being sold into sex slavery</a>, where Shia, Ismaili and Christian traders are being driven at gun point from their shops and workshops in al-Midan, al-Buzuriyah, and especially al-Hamidiyah that have been in their families’ hands since Ottoman times and where the secular Syrian Sunnis I remain in contact with remind me of the secular, humanist narrator in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Faustus_(novel)">Doctor Faustus</a>, which is set in Nazi Germany in the period prior to and during the Second World war.</p>
<p>Though Doctor Faustus is, of course, in part based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faust">Faust</a>, the classic German/European legend where the protagonist barters his soul to the devil, that Satanic trade continues to this day in Syria and in Europe, where Macron, the leader of the French puppet state, rolled out the red carpet for Jolani, who is Syria’s butcher in chief and who had a $10 million NATO bounty on his head up to only a few days ago.</p>
<p>All this is rather funny, in the sense that gang rapes in Zaire and Spain were/are funny. Here is the French puppet state, who issued all sorts of legal threats against Assad, whose <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_Syria_Civilian_Protection_Act">Caesar sanctions</a> starved Syrians into bondage and who is now <a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/macron-al-sharaa-handshake-outrage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">glad handling Jolani</a> like he is another conquering Caesar, rather than the revolting war criminal that he and all like him are. But, of course, the original Caesar was another war criminal, whose <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic_Wars" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gallic Wars</a> paper over his own Gallic genocide campaigns, so maybe there is nothing new under the Gallic sun.</p>
<p>Did I mention the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_Syria_Civilian_Protection_Act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caesar sanctions</a>, otherwise known as the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which NATO enacted on the word of <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/09/united-arab-emirates-nato-little-sparta-flexes-its-muscles-against-muslim-brotherhood/">a proven, serial Muslim Brotherhood liar</a>?</p>
<p>Simple question. How are Syria’s civilians being protected today? Simple answer: those being gang raped, impoverished and murdered are not doing not too well and that is all the fault of <a href="https://21stcenturywire.com/2025/05/07/stupefaction-and-dismay-said-lepen-regarding-al-jolanis-visit-to-paris/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKIn9FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETAwV0pxR3ZSdk1rckZLVVpwAR58ft_0FAi30G38VGguvYIw1Wc8GwOBH7ov5I2wtrzZwSVYCQNCJwcuxTQSYA_aem_XHLr86fvCC3Vt2KrGXovPw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the likes of Macron</a>, who sold what passes for his soul to Syria’s head choppers so his paymasters could get to run Syria’s coastal ports.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, according to<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/politics/eric-donald-jr-trump-family-deals.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> this New York Times report</a>, Eric and Donald Trump Jnr are raking in billions of dollars from their new ventures, which include “a luxury hotel in Dubai, a second high-end residential tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, two cryptocurrency ventures based in the United States and a new golf course and villa complex in Qatar.”</p>
<p>Not that the French and the Trumps are war’s only winners, as <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=moremillionaires+in+ukraine&amp;rlz=1C1GCEA_enIE1106IE1106&amp;oq=moremillionaires+in+ukraine&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChigAdIBCTk1MjhqMGoxNagCCLACAfEFplmrpIhqrRw&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sei=gN4daJzKMpalhbIPn4Hb4Aw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Googles tells us</a> that Ukraine, much like Idlib’s Caliphate, is minting millionaires by the new time. But sadly, not for thee or me, because we are not <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=moremillionaires+in+ukraine&amp;rlz=1C1GCEA_enIE1106IE1106&amp;oq=moremillionaires+in+ukraine&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChigAdIBCTk1MjhqMGoxNagCCLACAfEFplmrpIhqrRw&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sei=gN4daJzKMpalhbIPn4Hb4Aw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">architects of the Syrian Caliphate and nor are we NATO’s current crop of Lord Haw-Haws</a>.</p>
<p>I have met plenty of Syrian women who have been gang raped and speak English and I have met many others, who are too traumatised to speak. They are not a story. They are as much victims of NATO’s criminality as much as were the millions who died at the Wehrmacht’s hands were victims, who demand justice.</p>
<p>One problem with me or others trying to give them even a beaker of justice is the British regime will terrorise and even incarcerate me for hurting the feelings of the Muslim Brotherhood head choppers. Hate speech, these hypocrites call it. But then, at day’s end, it is not up to me to hold aloft the flag of European and American righteousness. That is the job of esteemed outfits like the International Criminal Court, which is too busy rounding up Africans and Asians, who stand in NATO’s way, to do the right thing, to do in fact anything, on Syria, Libya, Ukraine or anywhere else. Though they too are funny bunnies, the joke is lost on the Syrians, who are at the business end of war criminal Jolani’s collaborators.</p>
<p>But let’s cut the jokes, the quips and the one liners. If being pack raped and speaking English was newsworthy, then the Western media, together with what passes for Western justice, would highlight the plight of Syria’s Alawite women, whose hell is “just” a rerun of what the same NATO backed savages did to the Yazidi and many others, who must lick their wounds in private and in silence, just as Korea’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women" target="_blank" rel="noopener">comfort women</a> had to when “victory” was won,</p>
<p>Macron is not the only NATO cretin, who colludes with the devil. NATO’s entire structure, from top to toe, is based on that and there are millions of broken and shattered lives across the Levant, throughout Africa, in Ukraine and anywhere else we care to look that attest to that. Although we can copy the navel gazing narrator in Mann’s Doctor Faustus and say that tackling the ravages of Hitler, Macron, Zelensky and Jolani are not our priority, unless we make these issues and finding solutions to them our business, then we too are as complicit as Macron, Jolani and any rapacious, throat slitting Banderite ever was and, whatever about the glorified shoeshine boys of the International Criminal Court, I, for one, can’t think of a more damning indictment that that.</p>
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title: Trump Very Displeased With Tim Cook's 'Made-In-India' iPhone Blitz, Wants Production In US
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Trump Very Displeased With Tim Cook's 'Made-In-India' iPhone Blitz, Wants Production In US </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>Apple is turbocharging its "<a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/apple-turbocharges-friendshoring-your-next-iphone-could-be-made-india">friend-shoring</a>" strategy by shifting more iPhone production from China to India—a move that could soon result in American consumers purchasing iPhones made in India. However, during President Trump's Gulf tour, he expressed new concern over the supply chain shift (at least for the first time publicly), urging Apple CEO Tim Cook to re-shore some of that iPhone production to the United States. </p>

<p>"I had a little problem with Tim Cook yesterday," Trump told reporters in Qatar on Thursday, on his latest leg of his Middle East tour. The president said his problem centers around Indian factories producing a "majority" of iPhones for the U.S.</p>

<p>Trump criticized Cook's plan: "I said to him,' My friend, I treated you very well. You're coming here with $500 billion, but now I hear you're building all over India.' I don't want you building in India."</p>

<p>As a result of their meeting, Trump said Apple will be "upping their production in the United States."</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"I told Tim Cook we're not interested in you building (Apple) in India, they can take care of themselves, you up your production here (US)," claimed Trump. He added that India was one of the highest tariff-imposing countries &amp; has now made an offer to reduce tariffs significantly… <a href="https://t.co/11p9okfjTg">pic.twitter.com/11p9okfjTg</a></p>
— CNBC-TV18 (@CNBCTV18News) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNBCTV18News/status/1922927292101296424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Earlier in the week, in the first leg of his tour, Trump praised Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at the <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nvidia-amd-secure-saudi-ai-data-center-deals-during-trumps-gulf-states-tour">Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum</a> in Riyadh, saying: "Tim Cook isn't here, but you are."</p>

<p>Trump's comments follow a recent Financial Times report indicating that Apple's friend-shoring strategy could result in as many as 60 million iPhones being produced in India by 2026—or the amount required to satisfy the U.S. market.</p>

<ul><li>
	<p><em><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/apple-tells-india-vietnam-factories-ramp-iphone-output-during-trumps-90-day-trade-pause">Apple Races To Boost iPhone Production In India, Vietnam As Trump Pauses Tariffs</a></em></p>
	</li>
	<li>
	<p><em><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/apple-turbocharges-friendshoring-your-next-iphone-could-be-made-india">Apple Turbocharges Friendshoring: Your Next iPhone Could Be Made In India</a></em></p>
	</li>
</ul><p>Apple does not produce smartphones in North America but has pledged to invest $500 billion in the U.S. market over the next four years.</p>

<p>Wall Street analysts have estimated that U.S. iPhone production would take years and cost tens of billions of dollars.</p>

<p>U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recently spoke with Cook about ramping up iPhone production in the U.S. Cook told Lutnick that "robotic arms" would be needed for production lines. </p>

<p>Lutnick said, "He's going to build it here," adding, "And Americans are going to be the technicians who drive those factories. They're not going to be the ones screwing it in."</p>

<p>Wedbush Securities recently estimated that a fully American-made iPhone could cost as much as $3,500, compared to the current average price of around $1,000. There are reports the next model could see the first price hike since the <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/apple-may-hike-iphone-prices-first-time-2017">2017 debut of the iPhone X.</a></p>

<p>Next lineup of iPhone...</p>

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<p>Tarun Pathak, research director at tech analytics firm Counterpoint, said Trump's comments are a "familiar tactic from the president. He wants to push Apple to localize more and build a supply chain in the U.S., which is not going to happen overnight," adding, "Making in the US will also be much more expensive than assembling iPhones in India." </p>
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Israel’s ‘brutality’ has displaced 85-year-old Nakba survivor Mohammed once again, but he says this time it’s worse.

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title: "Patience To See, Not To Guess"
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">"Patience To See, Not To Guess"</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 Benjamin Picton, Rabobank Senior Macro Strategist</em></p>

<h3>Patience To See</h3>

<p>Tech names drove the NASDAQ and S&amp;P500 to further gains yesterday, while the Dow Jones fell for a second-straight session. Semiconductors performed especially well as fund managers caught underweight high-beta US megacaps continued a buying spree that was sparked by a 90-day tariff reduction between the US and China announced on Monday. Nvidia posted a 4.16% gain and AMD was up 4.68% as both companies inked deals with Saudi Arabia to sell more chips for AI applications. European stocks underperformed with most major indexes closing lower, and the Nikkei fell as funds flowed back into Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index and China’s CSI300.</p>

<p>While stocks were rising, US 10-year bond yields poked back above the psychological 4.50% level to close the day up 6bps at 4.54%. <strong>30-year Treasury yields closed half a bip below the intraday highs at 4.98%, which means that yields on both the 10-year and the 30-year are now trading above the levels that were in effect on April 9th when the Trump administration apparently cried “uncle!” </strong>in response to bond market pressure and kicked the implementation of reciprocal tariffs into the long grass for 90 days.</p>

<p>Perhaps we are about to find out whether it really was rising bond yields that forced the about face on those reciprocal tariffs, or if Scott Bessent has some other rabbit to pull out of his hat to force long yields lower. Rising bond yields is a problem for America’s chief bond salesman who has trillions of Dollars’ worth of debt to refinance in the months ahead. With the Fed still engaged in quantitative tightening, and enormous budget deficits still being run (despite DOGE), Bessent is going to have to work hard to sniff out other bids, and US homebuyers better hope that he can convince offshore investors that Treasuries yielding 4.5-5% are just too juicy to last. One wonders how durable the rally in long-duration tech can be while yields on long bonds are making new highs.</p>

<p>Fed Speakers yesterday offered no help to the Treasury Secretary by giving the impression that there is no rush to cut the Fed Funds rate any further. <strong>Mary Daly said that the Fed had to have “patience to see, not to guess”, which seems to discount the possibility of any kind of pre-emptive policy action</strong>. <strong>Daly also said that if you take a step back from all the tariff uncertainty the underlying economy is experiencing solid growth, with a strong labor market and declining inflation</strong>. That assessment might be a little bit like saying that the Dinosaurs were in really good shape if you ignore the uncertain effects of the approaching meteor. </p>

<p>In the land of hard data, <strong>the US economy shrank in Q1 because of a surge in imports that could be replicated in Q2 as the 90-day reprieve on China tariffs encourages importers and retailers to “reload the gun” on goods inventories</strong>. Two consecutive quarters of negative growth is the definition of a recession, but get ready for plenty of commentators to suggest that this one doesn’t really count (it wouldn’t be the first time!).</p>

<p>Meanwhile, President Trump continues his dealmaking tour of the Middle East where Qatar has now reportedly agreed to purchase as many as 210 new jets from Boeing. This comes off the back of the semiconductor, energy and military hardware deals signed in Saudi Arabia, Trump’s announcement that sanctions on Syria will be lifted and his meeting with the new Syrian President, who he urged to normalize relations with Israel.</p>

<p>It’s worth pointing out that while the markets were mostly focused on deals to sell more US chips and US energy, there were also announcements of new sanctions on companies facilitating the sale of Iranian oil to China and a new guidance issued by the Commerce Department that <strong>the use of Huawei’s Ascend AI chips “anywhere in the world” constituted a violation of US export controls. </strong></p>

<p>As this Daily noted yesterday, 90-day tariff reduction notwithstanding, what is happening in the Middle East and with trade more broadly should serve as a signal that geopolitical competition between the United States and China isn’t going away.</p>
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The recent military escalations have damaged a once exemplary athlete bond between India's Chopra and Pakistan's Nadeem.

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title: Democratic Senators Remove Trump-Targeting Provisions In Push To Pass Stablecoin Bill
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Democratic Senators Remove Trump-Targeting Provisions In Push To Pass Stablecoin Bill</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>The US Senate could pass a key bipartisan stablecoin bill as soon as next week after removing language targeting President Donald Trump and his family’s sprawling crypto interests.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/0195d2ea-5631-768f-8efe-e4867df4.jpg?itok=x8WLg0EY" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/0195d2ea-5631-768f-8efe-e4867df4.jpg?itok=x8WLg0EY"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="05e964d4-1367-4744-939b-45fa61923dc1" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="333" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/0195d2ea-5631-768f-8efe-e4867df4.jpg?itok=x8WLg0EY" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p><a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/stablecoin-bill-wont-target-trump-senate-could-pass-may-26">As Jesse Coghlan reports below for CoinTelegraph, </a>Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/sgHvpXk0FmI">said</a> onstage at an event by Coinbase’s lobbying arm, Stand With Crypto, that she thinks <strong>it's a “fair target” to have the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for US Stablecoins Act, or GENIUS Act, passed by May 26</strong> — Memorial Day in the US.</p>

<p>Joining her onstage was Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who hinted that the bill’s language was changed to scrap provisions that targeted Trump’s various crypto projects, which include memecoins, a crypto platform, a stablecoin and a crypto mining company that plans to go public, among others.</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>“When this language comes out, people will see really good refinement, a lot of progress, on things like consumer protection, and bankruptcy protection, and ethics,” </strong></em>Gillibrand said.</p>

<p><em><strong>“Things beyond just ‘what’s the structure?’ and ‘what’s required for an issuer?’”</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Senate Democrats <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/us-genius-stablecoin-act-fails-to-pass-cloture-by-to-vote">pulled support</a> for the bill on May 8 and stalled its momentum, airing concerns that it wouldn’t help address multiple crypto-tied deals that will personally enrich Trump.</p>

<blockquote>
<p><strong>“A lot of what President Trump is engaged in is already illegal,” Gillibrand said. </strong></p>

<p>“I also think his issuance of a memecoin is illegal based on current law.”</p>

<p>“It’s literally offering anyone who wants to curry favor with the administration to just send him money — that’s about as illegal as it gets.”</p>
</blockquote>

<p>“<strong>I’m not so worried about this bill having to deal with all President Trump’s ethics problems. What this bill is really intended to do is regulate the entire space of stablecoins,</strong>” she added.</p>

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<p><em>Source: </em><a href="https://x.com/brian_armstrong/status/1922883648912535919"><em>Brian Armstrong</em></a></p>

<p>Gillibrand said the revised bill includes “some ethics requirements,” but it was “not an ethics bill.”</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>“If we were dealing with all President Trump’s ethics problems, it would be a very long and detailed bill,”</strong></em> she added.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, also on stage, was hopeful the Senate would vote on the stablecoin bill “early next week.”</p>

<p>Armstrong, whose company cozied up to Trump by donating $1 million to his inauguration fund, declined to comment when asked if the President’s memecoin could impact the passage of bipartisan crypto bills.</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>“It’s not my place to really comment on President Trump’s activity,” </strong></em>he said. </p>

<p><em><strong>“What I do think is important is that this bill remains focused on stablecoins.”</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<h2>Crypto bills “absolutely critical” to pass before midterms</h2>

<p>The crypto industry is pushing for Congress to pass the GENIUS Act and a Republican-drafted <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-market-structure-bill-hearing-opposition">crypto market structure bill</a> before the midterm elections on Nov. 3, 2026, where all 435 House seats and a third of the 100 Senate seats are up for election.</p>

<p>“We have a very narrow window to get legislation through between now and the midterms,” Marta Belcher, the president of the crypto lobby group the Blockchain Association, told Cointelegraph at the Consensus conference in Toronto.</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>“I strongly suspect that window is going to close very quickly. I don't know if we're going to get another window like this to get legislation through,”</strong> she added.</em></p>

<p><em><strong>“It's absolutely critical that we get it through now, especially because there really is a real possibility that in the future we end up with an administration that is hostile to crypto.”</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>The association’s communications director, Chris Jonas, added that it’s critical the bills pass before Congress takes a recess for the month of August.</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em><strong>“Once you get into the calendar year of the midterms, historically not a lot of legislation moves, so that's why it’s so critical,” </strong></em>he explained.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Trump should be on track to sign both crypto bills before the August break, according to Bo Hines, the executive director of the Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets.</p>

<p>Hines noted on stage at Consensus on May 13 that negotiations on both bills are still ongoing, but it was “the President's desire” to sign both “stablecoin legislation and market structure legislation before the August recess."</p>
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title: In Gaza, the Nakba is being relived in 2025
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Ruwaida Amer's grandparents lived through the Nakba in 1948. Now, in 2025, she is experiencing another catastrophe.


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title: On Nakba Day, Trump tours the Gulf as Gaza starves
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Wisconsin Judge Pleads Not Guilty After Grand Jury Indictment, Claims 'Judicial Immunity' For Hiding Illegal From ICE

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Wisconsin Judge Pleads Not Guilty After Grand Jury Indictment, Claims 'Judicial Immunity' For Hiding Illegal From ICE</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 Wisconsin judge pleaded <strong>not guilty</strong> on Wednesday to charges that she obstructed federal agents seeking to detain an illegal immigrant in her courtroom.</p>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/wisc3%20dugan.JPG?itok=h903d-qn" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/wisc3%20dugan.JPG?itok=h903d-qn"><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="027f7517-973b-4d16-b217-43329f2f2657" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="309" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/wisc3%20dugan.JPG?itok=h903d-qn" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>Hannah Dugan during a forum at the Milwaukee Bar Association in Milwaukee in 2016.Mike De Sisti / USA Today Network file</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p>Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan entered her plea during a Wednesday morning arraignment in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, one day after she was <strong><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-grand-jury-indicts-wisconsin-judge-accused-helping-illegal-immigrant-evade-ice">indicted</a> by a federal grand jury </strong>following her April arrest by the FBI on charges that she helped Eduardo Flores-Ruiz and his attorney slide out the side of her courtroom on April 18 when ICE agents showed up to arrest him. </p>

<p>Dugan was charged with obstructing or impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of the United States and concealing an individual to prevent his discovery and arrest.</p>

<p>The two-page indictment accuses Dugan of <strong>confronting members of ICE and lying to them about needing a judicial warrant to conduct their operation. </strong>Dugan faces a maximum penalty of 6 years in prison and up to $350,000 in fines.</p>

<p>On Wednesday, <strong>Dugan claimed 'judicial immunity' - citing President Trump's Supreme Court ruling </strong>from last year.</p>

<p>"The problems with this prosecution are legion, but most immediately, the government cannot prosecute Judge Dugan because she is entitled to judicial immunity for her official acts," her lawyers wrote in a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wied.111896/gov.uscourts.wied.111896.15.0.pdf">motion</a> filed on Wednesday. "Immunity is not a defense to the prosecution to be determined later by a jury or court; it is an absolute bar to the prosecution at the outset," they wrote, citing <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf">Trump v. United States</a>.</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>In her motion to dismiss, <strong>Dugan’s lawyers quote from the Trump immunity ruling, </strong>where it said, “In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives.” They quoted that line to support the argument that her “subjective motivations are irrelevant to immunity.” They also cite the Trump immunity ruling’s quotation of a <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/472/511/">prior precedent</a> that said the essence of immunity is the immunity possessor not having to answer for their conduct in court. “J<strong>udge Dugan therefore has both immunity from conviction and immunity from prosecution</strong>,” they wrote. -<a href="https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/hannah-dugan-judge-arrest-trump-immunity-rcna206855">MSNBC</a></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>According to her attorney, Craig Mastantuono, "as she said after her unnecessary arrest, Judge Dugan asserts her innocence and looks forward to being vindicated in court."</p>

<p>The state Supreme Court <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/wisconsin-supreme-court-suspends-milwaukee-judge-accused-of-helping-man-evade-immigration-authorities-5849803">suspended Dugan</a> while she contests charges of concealing Flores Ruiz and obstructing ICE.</p>

<p>On the day she was arrested, US Attorney General Pam Bondi said "If you are harboring a fugitive, we don’t care who you are, if you are helping hide...anyone who is illegally in this country, we will come after you and we will prosecute you. We will find you."</p>

<p>FBI director Kash Patel said <strong>investigators believe Dugan "intentionally misdirected federal agents" away from Flores-Ruiz, as officers were preparing to arrest him</strong> in the courthouse where the judge works.</p>

<p><strong>Eduardo Flores-Ruiz </strong>- who was previously deported to his home country in 2013, was <strong>accused in a domestic violence case assigned to Dugan, </strong>according to officials. </p>

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<p>Milwaukee County court and <a href="https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25921480/eduardo-flores-ruiz-milwaukee-police-report-for-incident-on-31225-c2503130160-arrest-report.pdf">police records</a> reveal more information about the incident that landed Flores Ruiz in Dugan’s court on three domestic abuse-battery charges.</p>

<p><strong>Three people told police that Flores Ruiz injured them during a March 12 verbal and physical altercation, after which two of them sought hospital treatment.</strong></p>

<p>Miguel Mendoza-Figueroa alleged that Flores <strong>Ruiz “intentionally ... struck him multiple times in his body and face, causing pain and scratches during a verbal argument about loud music,”</strong> the police report says. </p>

<p>The man reported being punched about 30 times.</p>

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<p>When Deyci Torres Sierra, identified as Miguel’s girlfriend, tried to intervene, Flores <strong>Ruiz “struck her multiple times in her head” with his fist</strong>, inflicting pain, the report says.</p>

<p>A second woman, Maria Sierra Chihuahua, said she, too, tried to break up the fight, and Flores <strong>Ruiz “elbowed her in her upper left arm.”</strong></p>

<p>Police said that, when questioned at the scene, Flores Ruiz described the incident as “a mutual fight” between himself and Mendoza-Figueroa, a court record shows.</p>

<h2>In Other News</h2>

<p>Trump's pick for US Attorney for New Jersey, his former attorney <strong>Alina Habba, appeared on Wednesday in court to prosecute Newark Mayor Ras Baraka for raiding an ICE facility last week.</strong></p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">BREAKING: Alena Habba arrives outside Newark court for Newark Mayor for Ras Baraka's hearing following ICE arrest outside Delaney Hall<br><br>
Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/peterhvideo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@peterhvideo</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/FreedomNTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FreedomNTV</a> <a href="mailto:Desk@freedomnews.tv">Desk@freedomnews.tv</a> to license <a href="https://t.co/0uplFCCBzF">pic.twitter.com/0uplFCCBzF</a></p>
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/1923016407798755829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2025</a></blockquote>

<p><strong>Baraka was arrested for trespassing at an ICE center in New Jersey</strong> - arriving at the facility with a cadre of protesters and Democrat representatives.  He is seen in bodycam in an argument with officers and apparently refusing to leave the area, at least initially.  The details of the arrest are not yet clear, but the establishment media is running with the narrative that this <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/trump-officials-newark-mayor-arrest">is political persecution</a> on the part of the Trump Administration.</p>

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<p>The arrest led to an angry flurry by protesters including at least one Dem representative who seemed to physically attack officers.  Democratic representatives Bonnie Watson Coleman, LaMonica McIver and Rob Menendez visited the center known as Delaney Hall on Friday saying they wanted to "inspect" the facility. <strong> Their posture became confrontational when they were apparently denied entry.</strong></p>
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