>>43196 Good. Kill the police. They are also the enemy, working for jews. Every single police officer has to be killed, along with judges and prosecutors. Then we go for the jews and kill them all.

Contrary to what the pieces of shit jews say, the hero Adolf Hitler kept living and orienting his followers, who are keeping his good work until this day. The feds didn't want this to be public because they know that the majority of the world agrees that Nazism is the best system, and that the genocide of jews is a good thing for human beings.

By 2022, India was the most common country of origin for new international workers arriving in Copenhagen, shooting up from 15th place ten years earlier. The 5,400 Indian workers in the capital now constitute five percent of the international workforce, with India the 4th most frequent origin country. Indians are even more heavily represented among 'highly qualified international workers', comprising 16 percent of this group in 2022. The number of some other nationals has declined, with workers from The Philippines, in 2012 the most common origin country among international workers from Asia, dropping to sixth position among Asian countries by 2022. Several countries in Europe have also fallen down the ranking. Sweden, the second most frequent origin country in 2012, ranked only 5th in 2022. The UK, which was the 3rd most frequent origin country in 2012, ranked only 7th in 2022, and Norway fell from the 5th most frequent origin country in 2012 to the 8th in 2022. >https://archive.today/https://www.thelocal.dk/20250505/in-data-copenhagens-struggle-to-keep-its-international-workers

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to initiate discussions with France and Britain regarding the future of nuclear deterrence in Europe, underscoring the urgency of the matter. "I see a fundamental need for us to engage with France and also with Britain on how we can jointly establish such a deterrence element in the future," Merz stated during a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. He further explained that these topics, among others, will be addressed within the framework of the "3 plus 3" platform - comprising heads of government, foreign ministers, and defense ministers - in the coming weeks and months. Merz was quick to reaffirm that there are no intentions to replace the existing nuclear umbrella provided by the United States. Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron announced his intention to begin consultations with allies on the possibility of extending the protection of French nuclear forces to other European nations. Countries such as Germany, Poland, Lithuania, and Denmark have already expressed openness to discussions on this matter. The Financial Times highlighted that US allies across Europe and Asia are considering developing their own nuclear defenses, partly in response to the US administration’s efforts to improve relations with Russia.

>'Information war' – Experts and diplomats unite to fight disinformation threat archive.ph/Iod71 <One of the key topics at the forum was the growing role of foreign actors in democratic processes through information manipulation. Stewart Ross Wheeler, Canada’s ambassador to Argentina and Paraguay, shared details of how his country was targeted by foreign interference ahead of its 2019 and 2021 federal elections. <“Foreign interference is a real threat,” said Wheeler, explaining how malicious actors online sought to undermine Canadian sovereignty and further polarise society. Although the integrity of the elections was preserved, the Canadian government subsequently introduced new measures to bolster democratic institutions, aware that the threat is ongoing. <Yurii Klymenko, Ukraine’s ambassador to Argentina, pointed the finger at Russia, noting that Moscow had “turned information into a weapon.” Since 2014, he said, Ukraine has suffered not only military aggression but also a systematic “information war” waged by the Russian Federation. <According to Klymenko, Russia’s disinformation campaigns aim not only to delegitimise the Ukrainian government but also to dehumanise its people and justify acts of violence – including war crimes and genocide. He stressed that international cooperation is vital in responding to these attacks, and called for greater sharing of experience and enhanced cyber defence capabilities. Pelayo Castro Zuzuárregui, a representative of the European Union, also addressed the issue, warning that disinformation is a tool used by authoritarian governments to “exploit internal divisions, erode trust in democratic institutions and, ultimately, polarise societies.” <The Spanish diplomat cautioned that this is not an isolated phenomenon, but a systematic strategy, led primarily by foreign governments, aimed at manipulating the information space and undermining sovereign decisions. >TikTok Illegally Sent Europeans' Personal Data To China, EU Regulators Claim archive.ph/BPwZv <TikTok has been fined €530 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) for illegally transferring Europeans’ personal data to China and failing to be transparent with users, according to the Free Beacon and Politico. <In its first ruling on data transfers to China, the DPC said TikTok failed to properly assess how Chinese surveillance laws could impact the safety of European user data and couldn’t ensure adequate protection once the data was transferred. <This is the third-largest fine ever imposed under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). As TikTok’s EU headquarters are in Ireland, the Irish DPC serves as its lead regulator. >UnitedHealth Group Shares Plunge On Abrupt CEO Exit, Suspends 2025 Outlook archive.ph/gvkqy <Shares of UnitedHealth Group tumbled in premarket trading after the insurer announced the sudden resignation of CEO Andrew Witty and the suspension of its 2025 financial outlook. <UnitedHealth Group appointed Stephen Hemsley, its board chairman and former CEO (2006-2017), as its new CEO, replacing Andrew Witty, who stepped down for personal reasons. <"We are grateful for Andrew's stewardship of UnitedHealth Group, especially during some of the most challenging times any company has ever faced," Hemsley said, adding, "The Board and I have greatly valued his leadership and compassion as chief executive and as a director and wish him and his family the best." <The major health insurer also suspended its 2025 financial outlook, citing higher-than-expected medical expenditures >Global warming: The wealthiest 10% are responsible for two thirds of the phenomenon archive.ph/CeYoo <The disproportionate carbon footprint of the highest income brackets is well-known and established. The work of economist Lucas Chancel showed in 2022 that the wealthiest 10% emitted 48% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2019, while the poorest 50% were responsible for only 12% of those emissions. The new analysis goes a step further: It quantifies for the first time how consumption and financial investments contribute to increasing heatwaves and droughts. <"We are establishing a causal chain between the carbon footprint of the richest individuals and climate impacts. We wanted to convert abstract quantities, greenhouse gas emissions, into feeling consequences," explained Sarah Schöngart, climate scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the study's lead author. <The responsibility of the wealthiest is colossal: If the entire population had emitted as much as the wealthiest 10%, the thermometer would have risen by 2.9°C between 1990 and 2020, according to the study, compared to the current +0.61°C. The overheating would have even reached 6.7°C if the world had emitted as much as the wealthiest 1%. Conversely, global warming would have been practically nonexistent (less than 0.01°C) if the entire world had produced the same emissions as the poorest 50%. <The richest 10% contributed seven times more than the global average to the increased likelihood of centennial heatwaves and six times more to the rise in droughts in the Amazon – for the wealthiest 1%, the figures rise to 26 and 17 times more, respectively. >Rights groups take UK government to court over Israel arms sales archive.ph/gB2K5 <Rights groups and NGOs took the UK government to court on Tuesday accusing it of breaching international law by supplying fighter jet parts to Israel amid the war in Gaza. <Supported by Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, Oxfam and others, the Palestinian rights association Al-Haq is seeking to stop the government’s export of UK-made components for Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets. >Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship heads to the Supreme Court archive.ph/jriIO <President Donald Trump’s January 2025 executive order on birthright citizenship – stating that children born in the U.S. to parents who are not in the country legally, or who are not permanent residents, cannot receive citizenship – threatens to upend this precedent. <The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the case on May 15, 2025. <This comes after federal judges in three cases that took place in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington banned Trump’s order from going into effect, determining that the president cannot change or limit the Constitution by executive order. >Taliban Bans Chess In Afghanistan: 'Means Of Gambling' archive.ph/rbudv <"The Taliban government in Afghanistan has banned chess until further notice due to fears the game is a source of gambling," BBC reports Monday. "Officials said the game has been prohibited indefinitely until its compatibility with Islamic law can be determined." <"There are religious considerations regarding the sport of chess," Atal Mashwani, the spokesman of the Taliban government's sports directorate, told AFP news agency. "Until these considerations are addressed, the sport of chess is suspended in Afghanistan." Go is a much better game >Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans archive.ph/yAt42

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<Nine percent of failures damaged an item, most often after the product fell to the floor. Fourteen percent of failures saw pages of a book mangled with the bot tried to place it in a pod. Given the many books Amazon sells, the company’s roboticists think their designs may need to include book-saving interventions. <The Stow robot's speed was similar to that achieved by human workers. "Over the month of March 2025, humans stowed at an average rate of 243 units per hour (UPH) while the robotic systems stowed at 224 UPH," the paper says. "This comparison was careful to compare human stowers operating on the same floor as the robotic workcells, as stow rates vary based on inbound item distributions and the density of items already in the fabric pods." <Humans exhibited more variation in stow rates –they handled small items quickly but took longer with larger items or when they had to crouch or climb a ladder to access bins. Amazon's researchers think human stow rates could rise by 4.5 percent if robots only work on the top rows of storage pods, which would keep people off ladders. >Health Agencies Unveil New Nutrition Program To Further RFK Jr.'s Agenda archive.ph/VKJjK <The research initiative “will serve as a key element in fulfilling [Kennedy’s] commitment to Make America Healthy Again,” the agencies said in a statement. <Under the initiative, dubbed the nutrition regulatory science program, the agencies are going to carry out research that will answer questions such as how and why ultra-processed foods harm people’s health. <Officials also say they will look at how food additives affect human metabolism and the role of diet on health issues, such as autoimmune diseases, over one’s lifespan. <The answers “will enable effective policy development and help promote the radical transparency Americans deserve about the foods they are eating and how those foods can impact their health,” the agencies said. >Germany bans largest 'Citizens of the Reich' group and arrests four leaders archive.ph/OFB7q <The German government has banned the largest "Citizens of the Reich" group, an extremist far-right organization that calls itself the "Kingdom of Germany" and seeks to undermine the country's democratic order. Four of its leaders were arrested. Since the early morning of Tuesday, May 13, hundreds of security forces in several states have been searching the association's properties and the homes of leading members. <"The members of this association have created a 'counter-state' in our country and built up economic criminal structures," Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said, adding that the members of the group underpinned their supposed claim to power with antisemitic conspiracy narratives – a behavior that the country cannot tolerate. "We will take decisive action against those who attack our free democratic basic order," Dobrindt added. >Jaded young Chinese reset lives with rural ‘retirement’ archive.ph/3GjF1 <Youth retirement homes selling a vision of respite from the urban grind have gone viral in China. <Typically based in small towns, suburbs or rural areas, they attract people in their 20s or early 30s for several weeks or months and often offer fun group activities. <Several have sprung up around Dali – a small, sedate city by a glassy lake, long an outpost for those with a bohemian bent. <“I only permit entry to people who are pleasant to chat to, so the conversation won’t run dry... and there’ll be a spark between them,” Mr Yan Bingyi, the founder of one youth retirement home, said. >Trump’s Plan to Accept Free Air Force One Replacement from Qatar Raises Ethical and Security Worries archive.ph/NgG6b <For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer. <“I would never be one to turn down that kind of an offer,” the Republican told reporters on Monday. “I could be a stupid person and say, ‘No, we don’t want a free, very expensive airplane.'” >Italy turns its back on its pioneers' legacy in founding the EU archive.ph/a72qK <Even today, the manifesto is still a mandatory reference in Italy's pro-European circles, although it does not align with the views espoused by the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni. "I don't know if that's your vision of Europe, but it's certainly not mine!" she said to her opponents on March 19, during a parliamentary debate on Italy's position in the current transatlantic crisis, suggesting that the idea of a federal Europe was inherently damaging to people's freedoms. <A conservative nationalist, Meloni has been simultaneously playing along with Brussels, all while enjoying close relations with Donald Trump and Elon Musk. In criticizing the manifesto, Melon

>>43504 May all who oppose nuclear power now be shot dead, as reality proven them wrong and they are a cancerous caste that only bring ruin to a country.

>>21016 Robertsez?

>"A Modest Request": The Supreme Court Hears Challenge To National Or Universal Injunctions archive.ph/VYamF <Today, the United States Supreme Court will hear three consolidated cases in Trump v. CASA on the growing use of national or universal injunctions. 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. <The case is the consolidation of three matters: Trump v. CASA out of Maryland; Trump v. Washington out of Washington State, and Trump v. New Jersey, 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. >Germany Wind Power Firms Face Millions In Losses As Wind Speed Drops To 50-Year Low archive.ph/w1eXs <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. <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 Welt. <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). >Harvard Tops America's Largest University Endowments (For Now) archive.ph/oZm1Y <University endowments held more than $870 billion in assets last year, largely dominated by America’s elite institutions. <While Harvard, Yale, and Stanford have amassed tens of billions in assets, the median endowment stands at $243 million across 658 institutions. <Overall, endowment assets increased by 4% in 2024 driven by donations and investment returns. >"Rogue" Devices Found Hidden In Chinese Solar Panels Could "Destroy The Grid" archive.ph/43fHr <Undisclosed communication devices reportedly discovered in Chinese-manufactured solar panels and related equipment have sparked concerns among U.S. officials about the vulnerability of the nation’s power grid, according to a Reuters report. <These “rogue” devices, found over the past nine months, could potentially destabilize energy infrastructure and trigger widespread blackouts, sources familiar with the matter told the outlet. <The undocumented devices, including cellular radios, were identified in solar power inverters, batteries, electric vehicle chargers, and heat pumps produced by several Chinese suppliers. >Germany's Merz promises 'most powerful conventional army in Europe' archive.ph/usWAZ <"We want to be able to defend ourselves so that we don't have to defend ourselves," justified Merz, assuring that his party, the CDU, is "not a war party" and will not become one. On May 7, during Merz's visit to Warsaw, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk also stated his goal "to have the strongest and largest army in Europe" within the next five years. <The new chancellor has made accelerating Germany's rearmament a priority, announcing just 10 days after the February 23 elections a constitutional reform aimed at allowing Germany to borrow to fund an increase in military spending. On Wednesday, Merz also reiterated the project of "an attractive new voluntary military service," while the CDU, which hoped to return to mandatory military service (abolished in 2011), had to abandon this plan due to opposition from the SPD, its coalition partner. "You are a left-wing chancellor," accused Alice Weidel, the co-chair of the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland, the country's second political force, criticizing Merz for wanting to "double the federal debt" and for his "martial rhetoric intended to divert attention from domestic issues." >A Third Of Americans Worry About Manipulated News archive.ph/AqbAN <Almost half of the people surveyed in the United States as part of a Statista Consumer Insights survey actively try to keep up to date with world events and politics. <However, as Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, about a third of survey participants also fear that news in the so-called mainstream media is being manipulated. >Ed Martin Reveals J6 Pipe Bomber Probe Shakeup, Warns DOJ 'Much, Much Worse Than People Think' archive.ph/UjbGC <Ed Martin, a senior official in the Trump administration’s Department of Justice, is warning that corruption within federal law enforcement is far more severe than the American public realizes. Martin, who holds the roles of Director of the Weaponization Working Group, Associate Deputy Attorney General, and Pardon Attorney, made the comments during an interview with Tucker Carlson. <Martin weighed in the unresolved case of the January 6, 2021, pipe bomber, expressing frustration with the investigation’s lack of progress, wondering whether the lack of answers may have been intentional. “The pipe bomber—as a prosecutor - I’ve got the pipe bomber case in my office,” Martin told Carlson. Martin revealed FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino told him that the bureau had reassigned agents to the case, however, the renewed effort was still in it early stages. “It’s been going on for five weeks?” Martin said, likening the past probe to the bumbling “Keystone Cops.” >"Racism Is Only White" – Anti-White Art Installation Goes Viral, Sparks Outrage archive.ph/Hsx96 <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. <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. >Washington Post: U.S. Drug Deaths Plunged in 2024. Trump Cuts May Reverse That, Experts Warn. archive.ph/eTYh1 <U.S. drug deaths plunged in 2024, according to federal data published Wednesday, offering hope that public health measures are paying off even as the toll remains high. <Though there doesn’t seem to be a single variable to attribute to the gains, the drop in overdose deaths comes amid concerns that cuts to federal public health agencies and proposals to cut Medicaid could undercut progress.

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>Washington Post: National Airport, Pentagon Hotline Had Been Disconnected for Three Years archive.ph/PHQKE < hotline connecting air traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport and their counterparts at the Pentagon has been “inoperable” since March 2022, a Federal Aviation Administration official confirmed Wednesday, further evidence of poor safety coordination between federal agencies responsible for the airspace where a midair collision in January killed 67 people. <The line is maintained by the Defense Department, and the aviation agency was not aware of the outage during the three years it was down, Franklin McIntosh, the FAA’s deputy head of air traffic control, testified at a Senate hearing Wednesday. Aviation officials discovered the hotline wasn’t working after May 1, when controllers at National ordered two passenger jets to abandon landings because an Army helicopter was circling nearby at the Pentagon. <“We’re insisting on that line to be fixed before we resume any operations out of the Pentagon,” McIntosh said.

>>44168 >"Racism Is Only White" Then racism is a good thing. Only White people deserve to live. Genocide all non-White races. They are not human.

> Net Zero Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices kill 2 firefighters and local dude in UK > Major explosions reported on former air force base. > 3 dead, others seriously injured. > Old news reports about the base conversion reveal it was changing into a Net Zero electric 'bomb' vehicle factory. archive.is/o0RuH <Plans for the first phase of a new £60m business park at a former World War Two RAF base have been approved. Seven buildings in Bicester, Oxfordshire, named Innovation Quarter by property developer Bicester Motion, will be occupied by leading technology companies. <Cherwell District Council has now given building designs by electric motor company YASA the go-ahead. <The company will form an interconnected headquarters across the first three buildings, with construction starting in July. <It aims to be completed by spring 2025 on a section of the former RAF airfield alongside Bicester Heritage. >Almost as bad them mixing hydrogen into their home gas supply, which is dumb because hydrogen leaks through practically anything then explodes. >bongs unaware they are getting deleted by Net Zero

>Government-Assisted Suicide Is Spreading Across The Western World archive.ph/qP0HA <This month officials in England, Wales and Scotland will be considering legislation to legalize government assisted euthanasia (End Of Life bills), with laws similar to those passed in Canada in 2016. <The legislation proposes letting terminally ill people end their life if they: - Are over 18, live in England or Wales, and have been registered with a GP for at least 12 months. - Have the mental capacity to make the choice and be deemed to have expressed a clear, settled and informed wish, free from coercion or pressure. - Be expected to die within six months. - Make two separate declarations, witnessed and signed, about their wish to die. - Satisfy two independent doctors that they are eligible with at least seven days between each assessment. <This type of legalized suicide should be treated as distinct from the "physician assisted suicide" made available in the US in ten different states. There is a stark difference between an individual going out on their own to seek a doctor to help them commit suicide while suffering a terminal condition, versus the government actively encouraging the public to commit suicide and helping them do it using your tax dollars. <There is plenty of room for debate in both cases, but without a doubt no government should be in the business of mass euthanizing the population. There is far too much temptation for the practice to be expanded beyond people who are already dying. >Oh Canada: Teslas Banned From International Car Show archive.ph/4kFkj <According to the Canadian Auto Dealer, the organizers claimed a common rationalization for political discrimination: security. As we have seen on college campuses for years, where conservative speakers are barred due to security concerns, the Canadians claimed that they could not protect innocent parties if a single Tesla was allowed on the floor. Furthermore, they blamed Tesla, insisting the company was given “multiple opportunities to voluntarily withdraw.” <In other words, we only cancelled Musk when he refused to cancel himself. <Tesla already had a booth set up and had to take it down. <So, the solution to extremists is to give them precisely what they demand. >RDU aims to form ‘shadow government’ to take party forward archive.ph/JRqQg <Opposition party Red Dot United (RDU) on May 24 said it wants to move beyond being a check and balance on the ruling PAP, and is aspiring towards being an “alternative government” instead. <To do this, it wants to work with other “like-minded” opposition parties to build a digital platform, tentatively called altgov.sg, to flesh out policy positions. <“We want to make ourselves better known, so if the PAP fails, people will know there is a shadow government in place to take the country forward,” RDU secretary-general Ravi Philemon said. He was speaking at an event at the party’s headquarters in Ubi Crescent to thank volunteers after the 2025 General Election. <“I think that is the responsible thing to do. We do not want to be checks and balances any more,” said Mr Philemon as he addressed the media while flanked by his RDU teammates Sharon Lin, Ben Puah and Harish Mohanadas. <RDU in its media invitation to the May 24 event said there is a necessity to change its outlook and how it approaches politics in Singapore. It will also be looking to the next 10 to 15 years to recalibrate the party, which was founded in 2020 and also took part in GE2020. <The party’s so-called “3B strategy” involves “Breaking away” from being a check and balance on the People’s Action Party, “Believing” in RDU’s younger generation and “Building” a brand for the party, which may even see RDU changing its name to a more serious-sounding one. <When asked whether RDU has reached out to other mainstream opposition parties about setting up a “shadow government”, Mr Philemon said it has not done so officially. >German Steinbach threatens Poland with retaliation if Nawrocki wins archive.ph/sglD4 <In the 1970s, she fiercely opposed the recognition by the Federal Republic of Germany of the Oder-Neisse line. To this day, she represents the interests of Germany’s most anti-Polish circles—the Federation of Expellees, which she headed for many years. It is difficult to find a more openly hostile public figure towards Poland in Germany than her. Erika Steinbach is now warning against Dr. Karol Nawrocki. She threatens that the victory of the civic candidate in the presidential election could lead to German retaliation—demands from “our friends” for compensation for property lost by “expelled Germans” in northern and western lands. Steinbach herself also considers herself an expellee. She has her “arguments”—she was born in Rumia, occupied by Germans, where her father, a Luftwaffe non-commissioned officer, was assigned an apartment on Adolf-Hitler-Strasse (previously Sobieskiego Street). <Rumia belonged to Poland even before World War II, but that does not prevent Steinbach from seeing herself as “expelled.” And no wonder, since the Federation of Expellees she headed for years was dominated by former NSDAP members and led by war criminals unjudged in Germany. >RFK Jr. Drops Bombshell 'MAHA' Report Outlining 'Existential Public Health Crisis' And What To Do About It archive.ph/EzZEl <However, before listing the host of potential contributing causes of chronic illnesses, the report first addresses "Corporate Capture and the Revolving Door." Starting on page eighteen, the incestuous relationship between big government and bigger monopolies begins to paint a picture of how we've ended up here in the first place—a complete lack of surprise for anyone familiar with "regulatory" agencies. <Beginning under President Franklin D. Roosevelt—a fan of Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile's fascist economic framework—the Executive branch began creating agencies to "administrate" the various social programs created by the New Deal. Sometimes referred to as "the swamp," or as Mussolini called it, "the state within the state," Americans have come to know these agencies of unelected bureaucrats as the "Administrative State." <"Although the U.S. health system has produced remarkable breakthroughs, we must face the troubling reality that the threats to American childhood have been exacerbated by perverse incentives that impact the regulatory bodies and federal agencies tasked with overseeing them," the report reads. <Relying on the "honor system," the report highlights how corporations fund their own safety studies which government agencies use to base approvals upon. Conversely, public tax dollars fund but a small portion of the total research dollars spent on chronic childhood diseases—further "exacerbated" by the revolving door between regulatory agencies, and the corporations they're supposed to regulate. - Food Industry spent $60 billion for drug, biotechnology, and device research in nutrition science compared to $1.5 billion in government funded research. - Over 40% of US children have a chronic health condition - including asthma, allergies, obesity, autoimmune diseases, or behavioral disorders - a dramatic rise over past decades. - Over 75% of young Americans are ineligible for military service. - Teen suicide and depression have surged, with suicide among 10-24-year-old girls up 67% since 2007. - 95% of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee members had financial ties to food and pharmaceutical companies - The chemical manufacturing industry spent roughly $77 million on federal lobbying activities in 2024, while 60% of their lobbyists previously held federal posts. - More than ten thousand chemicals listed on the EPA's inventory are designated as confidential, and generic chemical names are used to identify them. - The pharmaceutical industry, from 1999 to 2018, spent $4.7 billion on lobbying expenditures at the federal level, more than any other industry.

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- Nine out of the last 10 FDA commissioners—and approximately 70% of the agency's medical reviewers—have gone on to work for the pharmaceutical industry. - Over 80% of clinical departments and teaching hospitals at U.S. medical schools receive some degree of pharmaceutical funding, while half of the total costs for continuing medical education (CME) is funded by industry. - Between 2010 and 2022, the industry provided $6 billion to over 20,000 patient advocacy organizations. <Dr. Kat Lindley, a board-certified medical doctor and President of the Global Health Project, tells ZeroHedge that the report is an important first step. >Coyyn: The Future of Secure Digital Identity and Decentralised Finance archive.ph/0Ga0X <As the global economy continues to embrace digitization, numerous platforms and technologies have emerged to facilitate the transition to decentralized banking, digital identification, and secure transactions. One such platform that is gaining popularity is Coyyn. <Designed to modernize the way individuals and organizations interact in the digital era, Coyyn integrates blockchain technology, financial innovation, and secure digital solutions. <Coyyn is a comprehensive digital ecosystem developed to bridge advanced Web3 technology with established financial services. It is not merely a digital wallet or blockchain service. <Instead, it offers tools for identity management, digital asset storage, transaction facilitation, and the preservation of privacy and security for individuals, enterprises, and institutions. >Washington Post: For U.S. Jews, D.C. Museum Killings Deepen Resolve — and Fear archive.ph/6LTOo <Late Wednesday evening, Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26, were shot after attending a Young Diplomats Reception hosted by the American Jewish Committee at the Capital Jewish Museum. The alleged shooter shouted “Free, free Palestine” before police took him into custody. <For many Jewish Americans across the country, the shooting near the D.C. museum has reinforced a sense that they’re unsafe – not safe to wear a yarmulke and not safe to go into Jewish institutional buildings, no matter how much is spent on security. For others, the attack on the young couple fueled their strength and confidence – in their faith, in their connection to Israel, in their visible Jewishness. And for yet others, May 21 was just another sad, complicated day to be an American Jew. >Washington Post: Federal Trade Commission Investigates Media Matters, Watchdog Sued by Musk archive.ph/X7SEu <Media Matters, a left-leaning watchdog group that publishes reports on conservative media and social media platforms such as Elon Musk’s X, said it received a civil investigative demand letter from the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday. <The letter demanded materials related to a lawsuit filed by Musk, communications with other media and advertising groups dating back to 2019, and information about its technology, methods and policies, among an extensive range of materials, according to a person familiar with the letter’s contents, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss legal matters. The FTC sends letters of demand as part of its investigations into organizations that it believes could have breached federal regulations.

>>20559 these are great for news

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Trump and Musk are going full-retard against each other: nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1930703865801810022 archive.ph/xKFhU x.com/elonmusk/status/1930718684819112251 archive.is/rMnEx

>>44890 I don't like Zion Don or Mumbai Musk, but I think Elon being got rid of is a good thing. Hopefully now we can go back to First Term Trump who quietly pardoned his jewish cronies and under whom nothing ever happened, rather than Second Term Trump who wanted to destroy Europe, make antisemitism illegal and flood America with forty million jeets.

>Multi-State Lawsuit Aims To Block Sale Of 23andMe Personal Genetic Data archive.ph/l27N7 <A coalition of 27 states and the District of Columbia has taken legal action to prevent 23andMe from selling personal genetic data in its possession without customer consent. <The California-based biotechnology company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 23 to facilitate the sale of its assets, sparking concerns over the handling of the sensitive genetic data it holds. <In a June 9 statement, the states said that customers should have the right to control the personal information they provided to the company and that 23andMe cannot sell the data like “ordinary property.” <“This isn’t just data – it’s your DNA. It’s personal, permanent, and deeply private,” Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said in the statement. “People did not submit their personal data to 23andMe thinking their genetic blueprint would later be sold off to the highest bidder.” >"The EU Is Not Europe!" - Marine Le Pen Rallies Nationalists In Call For Rebirth Of Europe's Nations archive.ph/ACCuJ <French nationalist politician Marine Le Pen launched a scathing attack on the trajectory of the European Union at the Patriots for Europe rally in France on Monday, declaring, “We don’t want to leave Europe. We want out of this Europe, because it is not Europe.” <Addressing a crowd of allies and supporters from across the continent, Le Pen opened her speech with a rejection of the EU’s current direction, accusing it of becoming a “merchant, wokist, ultraliberal empire” that tramples national sovereignty and democratic choice. <“Our Europe does not reside in Brussels,” Le Pen said. “What we are seeing today on our continent is in no way European. It is a counterfeit, a cold, fleshless, soulless machine.” She accused the European Union of replacing citizens with “interchangeable masses,” nations with “administered regions,” and elected leaders with “provincial governors.” >Hegseth faces lawmakers for first time since Signal chat controversy archive.ph/nfkZP <Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to field questions from members of Congress about his tumultuous start as Pentagon chief. <In a series of hearings starting today, he is likely to be asked about his sharing of sensitive military details over a Signal chat. Hegseth was among Trump administration officials who inadvertently included a journalist for The Atlantic in a Signal app group chat where they discussed U.S. military operations in Yemen. >Anti-Corruption Office clears Milei of responsibility in ‘cryptogate’ scandal archive.ph/cCH84 <The National Anti-Corruption Office (OA), which reports to Justice Minister Mariano Cúneo Libarona, has ruled that President Javier Milei did not “violate” the Public Ethics Law by “promoting” the ;$LIBRA’ memecoin. <According to the state anti-graft body, Milei “did not violate Law No. 25,188 on Ethics in the Exercise of Public Office by promoting the private project “Viva la Libertad Project" on February 14, 2025, through his personal account on the social network X @JMilei.” <The argument used in the ruling is the same one deployed by Milei himself and members of his entourage to defend themselves publicly. They argued the action was not taken in his capacity as President, but as a mere public citizen. Notably, the Anti-Corruption Office used the word “promotion” rather than “advertising” to refer to the event. >Reuters: Shooter Kills At Least Nine in Attack on Austrian School, Mayor Says archive.ph/2kzPL <A shooter killed at least nine people and wounded many others in an attack at a secondary school in the southern Austrian city of Graz on Tuesday, the city’s mayor said. <Graz Mayor Elke Kahr was quoted by Austrian news agency APA as saying the attacker was also dead, and that many of the injured had been taken to hospital following the shooting, which she called a “terrible tragedy.” <Police gave no initial toll but said “several” people were dead and they were working in the assumption there was only one attacker. APA video showed emergency workers loading a stretcher into an ambulance. >India intensifies expulsion of suspected foreigners to Bangladesh archive.ph/vem4P <India has started to push people it considers illegal immigrants into neighbouring Bangladesh, but human rights activists say authorities are arbitrarily throwing people out of the country. <Since May, the northeastern Indian state of Assam has "pushed back" 303 people into Bangladesh out of 30,000 declared as foreigners by various tribunals over the years, a top official said this week. >Teaching assistant fatally stabbed by a pupil outside a school in eastern France archive.ph/fIVH3 <A teaching assistant died after she was stabbed by a 15-year-old pupil outside a school in eastern France on Tuesday, June 10. The secondary school student was arrested after attacking the 31-year-old assistant with a knife during a bag search in Nogent, officials said. <The teaching assistant received several knife wounds just as classes were starting, and the alleged attacker, who did not have a criminal record and was overpowered by gendarmes, "appears to be a student at the school," education officials said. President Emmanuel Macron "senseless wave of violence." >Restaurants latest target of Hong Kong security law archive.ph/GP7Z5 <Hong Kong will toughen screening of restaurants, caterers and other food and entertainment businesses for potential violations of national security, the Chinese city’s leader said on Tuesday. <Civil servants should make compliance with national security a top priority in deciding licence approvals, Chief Executive John Lee said. <Critics see the move as targeting the many businesses, including cafes and restaurants, that have displayed posters, symbols or images expressing solidarity with the embattled pro-democracy movement. >Even Short Periods of Antibiotic Usage Affect Long-Term Gut Health archive.ph/Tixcd

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<Bacteria develop antibiotic resistance through multiple mechanisms including intrinsic resistance, genetic mutations, and DNA transfer between bacteria, with resistant strains persisting in the gut for approximately one year <Even brief antibiotic use permanently alters gut microbiome diversity, with resistant bacteria multiplying and beneficial strains being eliminated, creating long-term gut dysbiosis <A country's overall antibiotic consumption directly impacts an individual’s gut health. High antibiotic-use nations carry more antibiotic resistance genes even without taking antibiotics themselves <Keystone strains are affected by antibiotics, and overall gut diversity is reduced as well <Protecting gut health involves avoiding antibiotics, consuming probiotic-rich foods daily, reducing linoleic acid (LA) intake, supporting keystone bacteria, and considering natural antimicrobial alternatives

>>44891 What's wrong with destroying Europe? What good has come from them the past fifty years?

>>45030 ENEMY PROPAGANDA!!

How the fuck is this board so dead? Like, Iran and Israel are bombing the shit out of each other and no ones taking about it? Or am I too stoned to find it lol? Why would you all go back to 4chan after the hack? I mean, have some dignity at least. Granted right now /pol/ looks fine over there because Tel Aviv is getting bombed and instantly the BBC and blatant jew propaganda spam just fucking vanishes. It's so fucking stupid that shit you put up with in the first place. I saw a video they said hit some intelligence HQ building with a hyper sonic missile. Are we really in the reality where it takes a fucking advanced missile to stop cock porn spam? It's sad all the civilians you know are getting dusted, but even still... It's cathartic watching two of the most corrupt and evil governments thin each other out. The tension was killing me. And the fireworks are pretty too. Anyway, people should read the book of Zehpaniah. KJV, whole book. It's only a few minute read and I'm slow. Tell me that doesn't describe what's happening right now. You gotta admit it's enough to raise an eyebrow. Or is it just me?

>>45066 >How the fuck is this board so dead? >Like, Iran and Israel are bombing the shit out of each other and no ones taking about it? Two reasons. First is because of the fact that the people who want to discuss that kind of content flock to Twatter or Cuckchan for their dopamine hits. Second reason is because the people who want to discuss that content here flock to the Goober Grape thread on /v/.

Stream of the riots in the USA (Not mine, just sharing) https://archive.today/https://dlive.tv/HAPPENING.CENTER

>>45068 fucked up the link somehow https://archive.today/https://dlive.tv/HAPPENING.CENTER

>>45069 oh the board is just retarded, remove the archive.today part

>>45066 >Are we really in the reality where it takes a fucking advanced missile to stop cock porn spam? Yes, unfortunately.

>Opec+ steps up oil output increases archive.ph/VRU4G <Opec+ agreed on Saturday to raise production by 548,000 barrels per day (bpd) in August, further accelerating output increases at its first meeting since oil prices jumped — and then retreated — following Israeli and US attacks on Iran. <The group, which pumps about half of the world’s oil, has been curtailing production since 2022 to support the market. But it has reversed course this year to regain market share from non-member countries. <Members have also kept in mind regular prodding from US President Donald Trump for them to pump more to help keep gasoline prices lower. >French Left-Wing MPs Introduce Amendment To "Reduce" Coverage Of Migrant Crime Stories archive.ph/PnrX4 <When reality does not mesh with the “narrative,” the left’s standard tactic is to turn to censorship, and the French left is no different. The French Greens and other left-wing parties now want to make sure that news stories are not used for ideological purposes by the “far right,” claiming that certain media outlets are causing a “moral panic” around immigration due to migrant murders. <According to a parliamentary amendment tabled on June 25, 2025, by a group of Green and left-wing MPs in the National Assembly, news stories of actual events that have happened, and actual lives lost, are being improperly used by the right. <Another post from the French Observatory for Journalism ,wrote: “BREAKING NEWS | Green and left-wing deputies submit an amendment to REDUCE the coverage of crime stories in PUBLIC media. The authors believe these stories are used for ‘political exploitation;’ the text cites the murders of Lola and Thomas.” >Starlink: The newest asset for rebel and jihadist groups in West Africa archive.ph/4spio <From Mali to Chad, Starlink kits have increasingly become part of the equipment used by jihadist and rebel groups. Over the past two years, numerous videos and images have circulated on social media, showing the armed groups using the satellite internet system created by billionaire Elon Musk. The hardware, recognizable by its white satellite dish mounted on a tripod, appeared in June 2024 in a video released by the Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an Al-Qaeda affiliate, during an operation in the Gao region of eastern Mali against the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA). <In a risk analysis bulletin published on May 12, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC, a network of experts) confirmed that groups such as JNIM and ISWA are "exploiting the portable, high-speed connectivity [of Starlink] to enhance their operations." According to Nigerien security forces, Starlink devices have also been seized during counterterrorism operations in the Tillabéri and Tahoua regions in western Niger. >Border Defenders Show What Their Night Patrols Look Like: “Under Control” archive.ph/7onAE <The Border Defense Movement was formed in response to a growing number of illegal crossings from the German side. Its members routinely patrol the Polish-German border and have taken it upon themselves to detain illegal migrants. Short clips posted on social media reveal what these patrols involve. <Wearing distinctive yellow vests, small groups of activists scan the border area, especially alert to whether—under the cover of night—German authorities might be dropping off more illegal migrants on the Polish side. “Under control, we’re patrolling,” they caption the videos. >Associated Press: Egypt Says Ethiopia’s Completed Power-Generating Dam Lacks a Legally Binding Agreement archive.ph/0mH63 <Egypt said Friday that Ethiopia has consistently lacked the political will to reach a binding agreement on its now-complete dam, an issue that involves Nile River water rights and the interests of Egypt and Sudan. <Ethiopia’s prime minister said Thursday that the country’s power-generating dam, known as the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, on the Nile is now complete and that the government is “preparing for its official inauguration” in September. <Egypt has long opposed the construction of the dam, because it would reduce the country’s share of Nile River waters, which it almost entirely relies on for agriculture and to serve its more than 100 million people. >Washington Post: From UFC Fights to State Fairs, Trump Unveils Plans for Nation’s 250th archive.ph/QOvJ5 <Trump on Thursday returned to the Iowa State Fairgrounds, a place that had little to do with the founding of the nation but one that has played a role in his political biography, to launch a year-long festival that will culminate on July 4, 2026. The centerpiece of that birthday celebration will be “the Great American State Fair,” which Trump pitched to the crowd as “an enormous year long nationwide celebration of our heritage.” <“We will celebrate the 250th anniversary of America’s founding with a birthday party, the likes of which you have never seen before,” he said. <The effort, he said, is going to include a UFC fight on the grounds of the White House that will be overseen by Dana White, the chief executive of UFC and a longtime Trump supporter. <“We have a lot of land there,” Trump said. “We’re going to have a UFC fight – championship fight, full fight, like 20,000, 25,000 people. . . . The UFC fight is going to be a big deal.” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed he was serious about the proposal. <Trump also said that he would host nationally televised athletic competitions showcasing high school students from each state in an event he’s calling the “Patriot Games.” That effort, he said, will be overseen by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (“He’s great,” Trump said. “And he’s a little different, right?”) <Much of his campaign rally-style, hourlong speech was spent touting the signature legislation that passed earlier in the day, a bill that he is planning to sign at the White House on Friday afternoon ahead of Independence Day fireworks. “There could be no better birthday present for America than the phenomenal victory we achieved just hours ago when Congress passed the one Big Beautiful Bill,” he said. <At one point while describing the bill he used a term many consider to be an antisemitic slur while referencing unscrupulous bankers. <“No death tax. No estate tax. No going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker – and in some cases, shylocks and bad people,” he said. >Protests against surging mass tourism in Mexico City end in vandalism and the harassment of tourists archive.ph/508O2 <A protest by hundreds against gentrification and mass tourism that began peacefully on Friday, July 4, in Mexico City neighborhoods popular with tourists turned violent when a small number of people began smashing storefronts and harassing foreigners. <Masked protesters smashed through the windows and looted high-end businesses in the touristic areas of Condesa and Roma, and screamed at tourists in the area. Graffiti on shattered glass being smashed through with rocks read: "Get out of Mexico." Protesters held signs reading "Gringos, stop stealing our home" and demanding local legislation to better regulate tourism levels and stricter housing laws . <Marchers then continued on to protest outside the US Embassy and chanted inside the city’s metro system. Police reinforcements gathered outside the Embassy building as police sirens rung out in the city center Friday evening. It marked a violent end to a more peaceful march throughout the day calling out against masses of mostly American tourists who have flooded into Mexico's capital in recent years. Oh, the fucking irony.

>>45453 >harassment of tourists Good. Each country must be isolated and self sufficient. End globalism permanently. Those who can't survive deserve to die.

>>20563 >Dr. Hutschnecker pointed out that mental illness peculiar to Jews is manifested by their inability to differentiate between right and wrong. He said that, although Jewish canonical law recognizes the virtues of patience, humility and integrity, Jews are aggressive, vindictive and dishonest. I am sure that they are one of the biggest problems we face today, not because of their race but because of what they stand for, which is ingrained in their culture, however, jews as stated by members of this board many times, are not a single ethnicity, how can you say that most jews carry the seed of schizophrenia when they aren't even part of a single race of people and they are so "diverse" that they have banned DNA testing in Israel in fear of them finding out they are just european colonizers, I think being a jew is actually just a mentality or something similar to a personality type but closer to a mental illness that brings them together. Kind of like little maggots rounding up over a corpse. I agree with the jew fatige and the noticing, but I don't wanna sound retarded to the (Hello, I just arrived from Cuckchan, please bully me)s I'm trying to convince, nigger. >During World War II, Dr. Hutschnecker said, Jewish leaders in England and the United States knew about the terrible massacre of the Jews by the Nazis. Asuming the holocaust actually happened

>>45510 >Asuming the holocaust actually happened My personal stance on the issue is that the Holohoax did happen to the extent that the Kikes were rounded up, sent off to labor camps, and died as a result of the process. However the actual extent of those systemic purges is where I question the validity for any number of reasons. Especially when Hitler, like Marx before him, believed that the God of the Kikes was "money", and that abolishing the Kikes ability to make money would render them powerless.

Nation Public Radio (NPR) is an American non-profit organization that broadcast to the US public and Public Broadcasting Service is non-commercial, free-to-air television network. They got a budget cut of $9 Billion by JD Vance. While this is 0.16% of the the total budget it is still influential for US citizen. Ever since election of Barak Obama, these public services have been promoting LGBT+ narrative without giving second to the critics of those narratives. They have broadcasted bias or censored version of historical event and a lot of historical British drama with Negros in them. Thus, the budget cut will have huge influence as it take down another means through which Jews turn US child gay. https://archive.today/https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5404646-trump-funding-cuts-pbs-cpb-rescissions-package/

>"No Spare Capacity": Watchdog Warns Largest US Grid Is Maxed Out Amid Data Center Buildout archive.ph/Nx2vz <America's largest power grid has issued multiple 'Maximum Generation' and 'Load Management' alerts this summer, as summer heat pushes power demand to the brink with air conditioners running at full blast across the eastern half of the U.S. The deeper issue: there's not enough baseload capacity to support the explosive growth of power-hungry AI server racks at new data centers. <"There is simply no new capacity to meet new loads," said Joe Bowring, president of Monitoring Analytics, which is the independent watchdog for PJM Interconnection, who Bloomberg quoted. "The solution is to make sure that people who want to build data centers are serious enough about it to bring their own generation." <New AI data centers are popping up across the PJM Interconnection—the largest U.S. power grid, serving 65 million people across 13 states and Washington, D.C. Part of PJM's territory includes Loudoun County, Virginia—known as 'Data Center Alley'—which is recognized as one of the world's largest hubs for data centers. <The problem is that next-generation server racks at AI data centers are now consuming more than twice the power they did just a few years ago. For example, Nvidia's GB200 AI rack draws 120 kW, compared to 60–80 kW for the earlier HGX models. Multiply that by thousands of racks in large, hyperscale centers, and it's clear that AI computing is rapidly gobbling up grid capacity while baseload power in the form of fossil fuel power generation has been retired. <On Sunday, we cited the EIA's Short-Term Energy Outlook for July, which showed that average summer wholesale power prices across the PJM, NYISO, and ISO-NE grids are the highest in the nation. These prices now far exceed those in Texas' ERCOT, the U.S. average, and even the traditionally high-cost West Coast markets. The blame is squarely focused on the Democrats' initiative to recklessly decarbonize power grids. >'What Do All Those PhDs Do?' - Bessent Calls For 'Fundamental Reset' Of Financial Regulations archive.ph/EgNJR <Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Monday called for a “fundamental reset” of financial regulations to ensure they are aligned with the nation’s domestic and international priorities. <Speaking at the Federal Reserve Capital Conference, Bessent said there is a need for “deeper reforms” in bank regulation, noting that the system has been marked by “regulation by reflex,” where bank regulators tend to introduce new rules after issues have already occurred. <“Rather than preempting crises, regulators all too often react to them after the fact. They play the role of a hazmat cleanup team instead of preventing dangerous spillovers in the first place,” Bessent said. <“Rather than reflexively regulate anything that hits the headlines, we need to instead be more explicit about our vision for the financial system,” he added. <As Aldgra Fredly reports for The Epoch Times, Bessent said the Treasury will reinforce reform efforts by working to “break through policy inertia, settle turf battles, drive consensus, and motivate action to ensure no single regulator holds up reform.” >Singapore, Vietnam agree to step up defence ties, dialogue among leaders archive.ph/UM8Ee <Singapore and Vietnam will boost defence ties, seeking more leadership dialogues after upgrading to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in March 2025. <Chan Chun Sing and Vietnam PM Pham Minh Chinh discussed cooperation in renewable energy, data, finance, and leadership development amidst global turbulence. <Military interactions will increase via visits, dialogues, and exchanges, strengthening regional security within the ADMM and ADMM-Plus frameworks. >'F**k Clooney & Carville' - Hunter Biden Goes On Expletive-Laced Rant About... Everything archive.ph/OoMFT <In what can only be described as an unglued performance on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan, the younger Biden lashed out at top Democrats, calling George Clooney a "fucking brand" rather than an actor, dismissing James Carville as irrelevant, and exposing the Pod Save America hosts as grifting "junior fucking speech writers" who have been "making millions" off their Obama connections. <Obama advisor David Axelrod wasn't spared either, with Biden dismissing his entire career: "David Axelrod had one success in his political life and that was Barack Obama and that was because of Barack Obama." <Biden even turned his venom on powerful Democrat consultant Anita Dunn, revealing the stunning amounts of money these political parasites have extracted from the party: "Anita Dunn has made $40-$50 million off the Democratic Party." <And in a final insult to the failing mainstream media, Biden called out CNN host Jake Tapper over his poor ratings. "What influence does Jake Tapper have over anything? He has the smallest audience on cable news," he said. <The disgraced Biden son also unleashed a barrage of F-bombs while ranting about illegal immigration and taking direct aim at hardworking Americans who support border security. >Fatal shooting in South Korea sparks alarm over DIY firearms archive.ph/oQjew <A deadly domestic shooting in Songdo, Incheon, has reignited alarm in South Korea over the lack of regulation on home-made firearms and the ease of access to online content that teaches users how to build them. <On July 20, a 63-year-old man was arrested on charges of murder after allegedly shooting his son with a home-made shotgun filled with metal pellets at their residence in Songdo, Incheon. The victim, a 33-year-old man, was rushed to the hospital but did not survive his injuries. <Police officials at Incheon Yeonsu Police Station later told the press that, during questioning, the suspect said he had learnt how to make the gun by watching tutorial videos on YouTube. He cited ongoing family conflicts as the motive for the crime. >What's Behind The Rise In Narcissism In Teens? archive.ph/foPb5 <Thanks to social media use, school grade inflation, and environmental factors, narcissistic behavior appears to be on the rise in children and teenagers, some psychotherapists and experts say. <Its prevalence in students under the age of 18 has increased by about 10 percent in the past 12 years and should be on the radar of school psychologists when school resumes soon, according to David Liebert, a practicing psychotherapist based in Tampa, Florida. <Liebert cautions that narcissism is a very broad term and that mental health professionals generally refrain from diagnosing the specific personality disorder in children because their personalities are still developing. Consequently estimates vary widely. <Narcissistic personality disorder is defined as a need for admiration, a pervasive pattern of grandiosity—an overinflated sense of one’s importance—and a lack of empathy for others. It affects less than 2 percent of the general population, according to the National Library of Medicine. <Liebert said he believes that in recent years, the self-esteem movement may have gone too far. The need for constant approval is a common problem in communities where children get trophies for finishing last, and gold stars are no longer awarded for the best work for fear of excluding others. <“A minimally bruised self-esteem,” balanced with humility, is healthy, Liebert said. “You’ve got to provide kids a little more opportunity to fail.” >Germany Wants to Intervene at the Polish Border. Tusk Remains Silent, Merz Announces Action archive.ph/YfgFU <On Friday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz clearly announced an expansion of Germany’s influence over the eastern borders of the European Union, as reported by Deutsche Welle.

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<“We will take part in the protection of the EU’s external borders and will not leave this defence solely to those who directly share external borders on their territory,” he stated during a press conference. <Although Germany does not directly border either Russia or Belarus, Merz considers the Polish-Belarusian border to be strategically important for Berlin. He thanked Poland for blocking organised migration, referring to ongoing communication with Donald Tusk and “close cooperation” between the governments. However, the Chancellor’s words have caused consternation. What exactly does this German “participation” entail? Does it refer to the deployment of Frontex officers, or the presence of German uniformed services on Polish territory? Who would command such a formation? Would foreign officers be granted authority to use force within the borders of the Republic of Poland? <Most importantly: why is the Polish side silent? If any arrangements have been made with Berlin, why have they not been disclosed? Are decisions concerning Poland’s sovereignty being made without the knowledge of the citizens? >Taiwan, EU both face threats of ‘external infiltration’, President Lai tells European lawmakers archive.ph/OPx6z <Taiwan and the European Union share the same values of freedom and democracy, but both also face similar threats from “external infiltration”, President Lai Ching-te told visiting European lawmakers on July 22. <Taiwan views the EU as one of its most important like-minded democratic partners, despite the lack of formal diplomatic ties, and the bloc has had to balance its support for the Chinese-claimed island with relations with Beijing, which views Taiwan as its own territory. <China confirmed on July 21 that it will hold a top-level summit with the EU in Beijing this week marking 50 years of diplomatic ties as both sides seek to navigate trade disputes amid broader global trade uncertainties. <Mr Lai, meeting members of the European Parliament’s Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield in Taipei, said Taiwan and the EU not only have close economic and trade ties, but also share the values of democracy and freedom. <“But in recent years, both have encountered information interference and infiltration by external forces which have attempted to manipulate the results of democratic elections, create confrontation in society, and shake people’s confidence in democracy,” he said, according to a statement from his office. >Explainer: Taiwan’s recall election and how the process could play out archive.ph/Tro1k <Around one-fifth of Taiwanese lawmakers, all from the main opposition party Kuomintang (KMT), face a recall election on July 26 that could reshape the legislature and present an opportunity for the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to regain its majority.

>>45510 If you wipe out the genes for sociopath maxxing then sociopath maxxing does not occur. It does not matter where those genes derive from: the teutons, the knights templar, the jesuits, the lombards, the freemasons... You can spot the markers and you can disincentivise sociopathy. We can all see the most successful sociopathic project on the earth right now. If you want to argue such a thing is a mind virus with people succeptible to social infection, then it matters not to those administering the same course of treatment. The worst infections get deligitimized and wiped out. The germans had to literally conduct penis inspections. Now we have technology as a means to identifying patterns.

>PMI Surveys Show Manufacturing Slump, Services Jump In July archive.ph/iWW6C <Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence: <“The flash PMI data indicated that the US economy grew at a sharply increased rate at the start of the third quarter, consistent with the economy expanding at a 2.3% annualized rate. That represents a marked improvement on the 1.3% rate signalled by the survey for the second quarter. <“Whether this growth can be sustained is by no means assured," says Williamson: <"Growth was worryingly uneven and overly reliant on the services economy as manufacturing business conditions deteriorated for the first time this year, the latter linked to a fading boost from tariff front-running. <“Business confidence about the year ahead has also deteriorated in both manufacturing and services to one of the lowest levels seen over the past two-and-a-half years. <"Companies cite ongoing concerns over the impact of government policies, notably in terms of both tariffs and cuts to federal spending." >Hilarious BBC 'Microaggressions' Video Goes Viral; No One In The Real World Acts Like This archive.ph/W1ioX <A DEI training video produced by the BBC that purports to provide guidance on how to deal with ‘microaggressions’ in the workplace has gone viral because it’s so ridiculously hilarious. <The video is a perfect example of what deranged leftists believe the world is like, but in reality no one acts the way the actors in the piece do. <It’s like an episode of Ricky Gervais’ The Office, which pokes fun at stereotypes by having characters play up to them for comic effect. >Trump to visit Federal Reserve, ramping up pressure on Powell archive.ph/3ZqWm <President Donald Trump will visit the Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Thursday amid his ongoing feud with Fed chair Jerome Powell. <Trump is joining a group of administration officials touring the headquarters after it underwent $2.5 billion in renovations. The president for weeks has called on Powell to lower interest rates, but the official has not budged. <Some administration officials have argued that the massive renovations were a waste of taxpayer dollars and could even amount to a fireable offense for Powell. >Global Stocks, US Futures Hit New Record Highs As Google Earnings Boost AI Theme archive.ph/pTkaV <Global stocks extended their rally to fresh record highs on the prospect of more trade deals with the US, easing fears of a drawn-out tariff war while US equity futures are also higher led by Tech with small caps lower after yesterday’s outperformance, as sentiment was boosted by Alphabet signaling strong demand for its AI products, while Tesla posted the biggest revenue decline in at least a decade. As of 8:00am, S&P futures are 0.1% higher and Nasdaq futs gain 0.3% with the AI theme driving Tech following GOOG earnings with $10 billlion capex boost helping lift other AI infrastructure stocks in premarket trading, including NVDA and AVGO. Tesla slumped 6% after Elon Musk warned of difficult times ahead after losing electric vehicle incentives in the US. Cyclicals are stronger pre-market led by Industrials. Bond yields are 1bp from 2s to 30s with USD seeing its first bid in 5 sessions. Commodities are also higher led by Ags/Energy with weakness in both Base and Precious metals. Today’s macro data focus is on Flash PMIs, Jobless Claims, Home Sales, and regional Fed activity indicators. >Tulsi Debunks Top Obama 'Russia Hoax Lies' In Latest Bombshell Release archive.ph/lrJcS <And here it is - DNI Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday released more damning evidence against the Obama administration, which she says exposes how they "manufactured the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment that they knew was false, promoting the LIE that Vladimir Putin and the Russian government helped President Trump win the 2016 election." <"In doing so, they conspired to subvert the will of the American people, working with their partners in the media to promote the lie, in order to undermine the legitimacy of President Trump, essentially enacting a years-long coup against him." >International Court of Justice lays the groundwork for climate 'reparations' archive.ph/anSN9 <"A landmark milestone for climate action." On Wednesday, July 23, Vanuatu's climate minister, Ralph Regenvanu, expressed his joy after a hearing at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), an event that his Pacific archipelago country had been awaiting for six years. The international court, based in The Hague, ruled that countries that violate their legal climate obligations thereby commit an "internationally wrongful act," and that they could be required to pay "reparations" to the most affected countries. This marks the first time that the ICJ, the United Nations' main judicial institution, established in 1945, has ruled on an environmental issue. <The unprecedented advisory opinion will shape jurisprudence worldwide. Legislators, judges, lawyers and diplomats will now be able to use it to change laws, take states to court and attempt to accelerate climate negotiations. "This is a victory for our planet, for climate justice and for the power of young people to make a difference," said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in a statement. <According to environmental lawyer Arnaud Gossement, "This opinion is extremely important because it sets the interpretation of international law that states must adopt in the fight against climate change. The Court offers the most ambitious reading possible." >EU Tightens Russian Oil Cap, But Loopholes Undermine Impact archive.ph/gIqr4 <EU launches its 18th sanctions package, lowering Russia’s oil price cap to around $47.60/barrel and targeting the energy sector more aggressively. <Loopholes remain widespread, with Greek-owned tankers helping transport Russian oil, and non-OECD nations like China and India continuing to import above the cap. <Without stronger enforcement, including naval oversight and EU unity, sanctions risk being symbolic rather than impactful. >Macron and Merz try to revive challenging French-German partnership in Berlin archive.ph/0SRPw <Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron conspicuously dispensed with interpreters on Wednesday, July 23, at the Villa Borsig in Berlin on the shores of Lake Tegel, for the French president's first visit to Germany since the chancellor took office on May 6. Both leaders were eager to demonstrate that each fully understood the other's language, signaling a reboot in French-German relations after years of mutual misunderstandings. Merz was also careful not to repeat the culinary missteps of his predecessor: the dinner menu did not include fischbrötchen – the famous pickled fish sandwich served by former chancellor Olaf Scholz during the failed French-German summit in Hamburg in 2023 – but instead featured a more refined veal saddle with chanterelle mushrooms. <Beyond these gestures of goodwill, the chancellor and the president still faced the challenge of delivering results that matched their stated ambitions. The evening offered no clear answers. "The relationship seems to have restarted on a better footing, which is to be welcomed. But naturally, the points of contention have not disappeared," said Stefan Seidendorf, deputy director of the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg, in the state of Baden-Württemberg. <According to a spokesperson for the German government, the three-hour working dinner produced no concrete announcements on the contentious issues dividing the two countries. All discussions were postponed to the summit scheduled for August 28 and 29 in Toulon (southern France), which will include a meeting between Macron and Merz, followed by a joint French-German cabinet session.

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>Australia & Japan Are Seemingly Having Second Thoughts About The De Facto Asian NATO archive.ph/dFLy6 <The Financial Times reported that US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby recently asked Australian and Japanese defense officials how their countries would respond to a war over Taiwan. He also asked them to boost defense spending after NATO just agreed to do so during its latest summit. Colby lent credence to this report by tweeting that he’s “focused on implementing the President’s America First, common sense agenda of restoring deterrence and achieving peace through strength.” <This sequence shows that Trump 2.0 is serious about “Pivoting (back) to (East) Asia” in order to more robustly contain China. This requires freezing the Ukrainian Conflict and assembling a de facto Asian NATO, however, both of which are uncertain. As regards the first, Trump is being drawn into “mission creep”, while the latter is challenged by Australia’s and Japan’s reluctance to step up. To elaborate, they seemingly expected the US to do all the “heavy lifting”, just like NATO expected till recently as well. <That would explain why they didn’t have a clear answer to Colby’s inquiry about how their countries would respond to a war over Taiwan. Simply put, they likely never planned to do anything at all, thus exposing the shallowness of the de facto Asian NATO that the US has sought to assemble in recent years via the AUKUS+ format. This refers to the AUKUS trilateral of Australia, the UK, and the US alongside what can be described as the honorary members of Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan. <Australia and Japan are correspondingly envisaged as this informal bloc’s Southeast and Northeast Asian anchors, yet they’re evidently unwilling to fulfill the military roles that their US senior partner expects. What it apparently had in mind was them at the very least playing supportive logistical roles in the scenario of a Sino-US war but their representatives reportedly didn’t even suggest as much to Colby. This in turn reveals that they fear retaliation from China even if they don’t participate in combat. >China Spends Billions to Influence U.S. Media and Universities archive.ph/CP7Dn <Concerns have grown in North America about China’s growing footprint within the United States, especially when it comes to media and university campuses. Journalists and watchdogs have pointed out that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) invests heavily to manage its image in the U.S., using both financial rewards and subtle pressure. <These efforts are changing how China is discussed in American newsrooms and classrooms. This article breaks down how China uses money and influence, explores the part business decisions play in this, looks at what’s happening in universities, and covers how the Trump administration has tried to push back. >Associated Press: Columbia University Agrees to Pay More Than $220m in Deal with Trump to Restore Federal Funding archive.ph/sZcb3 <Columbia University announced Wednesday it has reached a deal with the Trump administration to pay more than $220 million to the federal government to restore federal research money that was canceled in the name of combating antisemitism on campus. <Under the agreement, the Ivy League school will pay a $200 million settlement over three years, the university said. It will also pay $21 million to resolve alleged civil rights violations against Jewish employees that occurred following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the White House said.

>White House Order To Punish Banks That Discriminate Against Conservatives, Crypto Companies archive.ph/pCBJx <The White House is about to unveil a new executive order that would punish big banks who discriminate against conservatives and crypto companies. <A draft of the order seen by the WSJ directs bank regulators to investigate whether any financial institutions may have violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, antitrust laws, or consumer financial protection laws - with violators facing monetary penalties, consent decrees or other disciplinary measures, according to the draft. <People familiar with the EO told the Journal that it could be signed as soon as this week, though the order could become delayed or the administration's plans may change. >WHO supports Thailand’s e-cigarette crackdown archive.ph/PFnxM <The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed support for Thailand’s continued ban on the import and sale of e-cigarettes, while the Thai Health Promotion Foundation (ThaiHealth) has pledged a “denormalisation effort” to reduce the prevalence of vaping among young people. <Dr Olivia Nieveras, a senior public health specialist with WHO Thailand, said Thailand’s policy to ban e-cigarettes was in line with empirical evidence about the harm of vaping products, as well as the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), which Thailand joined in 2003. >Uncle Sam floats tracking tech to keep AI chips out of China archive.ph/3dYGN <The Trump administration wants better ways to track the location of chips, as part of attempts to prevent advanced AI accelerator hardware from getting into Chinese hands. <Washington wants to equip semiconductors with location-tracking capabilities, and is keen on working with the industry to accomplish this, according to a senior White House official. <The purpose is to enable the US to follow where shipments of key products for AI development, such as Nvidia GPUs, are actually ending up, so as to aid efforts to prevent smuggling of the components into China. >DOJ Ends 44-Year-Old Race-Based Hiring Decree archive.ph/sZpB6 <In a court filing on Aug. 1, the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division stated that it will eliminate a 1981 decree issued under the Luevano v. Ezell case, which was brought by minority job applicants who alleged discrimination in 1979. <The DOJ said on Aug. 4 that the decree had “limited the hiring practices of the federal government based on flawed and outdated theories of diversity, equity, and inclusion,” and that it also “imposed draconian test review and implementation procedures” on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). <“For over four decades, this decree has hampered the federal government from hiring the top talent of our nation,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon said in a statement. “Today, the Justice Department removed that barrier and reopened federal employment opportunities based on merit—not race.” >UN starts new bid to forge plastics treaty amid 'global crisis' archive.ph/smxx9 <Nations must resolve the global plastics crisis, the head of UN talks told negotiators from 180 countries gathered in Geneva on Tuesday to forge a landmark treaty on eliminating the life-threatening waste. <"We are facing a global crisis," Ecuadoran diplomat Luis Vayas Valdivieso said at the start of 10 days of negotiations. <"Plastic pollution is damaging ecosystems, polluting our oceans and rivers, threatening biodiversity, harming human health, and unfairly impacting the most vulnerable," he said. <"The urgency is real, the evidence is clear, and the responsibility is on us." <Three years of negotiations hit the wall in Busan, South Korea in December when oil-producing states blocked a consensus. >Texas Governor Threatens To Expel Democrats Who Fled State To Block GOP Redistricting Vote archive.ph/NzNRZ <A quorum is the minimum number of lawmakers present in order to conduct legislative business - a tactic they've used twice before in the 22 years since Republicans have controlled all of Texas state government (efforts which ultimately failed). <The Democrats plan to stay away for two weeks to run the clock on a special legislative session called by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in order to draw the new map. <By state law, the Texas House can only conduct business when two-thirds of its 150 members are present, meaning at least 51 of the state's 62 Democrats will stay away. So far, 57 have fled the state, according to State Rep. Jon Rosenthal (D), with members fleeing to Chicago, Boston and New York. All plan to remain out of the state until Aug. 19, when the special session concludes. <"Our goal right now is to kill this session," said Rosenthal. <Abbott said if the Democrats don't return by 3pm on Monday, he will invoke a Texas attorney general opinion and "remove the missing Democrats from membership in the Texas House," and then pick their successors under power granted in the state constitution. Upping the ante, Abbott said many of the fleeing Democrats may have committed felonies, as they're soliciting donations to cover fines they face under Texas House rules -- arguing that they risk bribery charges for accepting money "to assist in the violation of legislative duties." To bring them to justice, he said "I will use my full extradition authority to demand the return to Texas of any potential out-of-state felons." Texas AG Ken Paxton (R), meanwhile, has threatened to arrest lawmakers who break quorum, though he won't have jurisdiction over them outside of the state. >Chinese government has ‘final say’ in Dalai Lama reincarnation, CPC’s Tibet official says archive.ph/9KyOm <The discovery of the next Dalai Lama will be carried out by the Chinese government, and not under the current Dalai Lama’s directions, a Communist Party of China (CPC) committee official for Tibet said on Aug 5. China considers the Dalai Lama a separatist and wants to bring Tibetan Buddhism under its control, but the the Nobel Peace laureate and his huge following have been obstacles to that ambition. <At his 90th birthday celebration in July, he assured followers that he would be reincarnated, and a non-profit institution he has set up will have the sole authority to identify his reincarnation. <But Mr Gama Cedain, the deputy secretary of the CPC committee in Tibet, said the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation would be found via a domestic search, and approval will come from the central government. <“The central government has the indisputable final say in the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama,” he told reporters at a press conference about the socio-economic development in Tibet. <He said that was the creed devotees adhered to, and the government’s process follows the strict religious rituals and historical customs of the reincarnation of living Buddhas. <“The reincarnation has never been decided by the Dalai Lama himself,” he said.

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>US attorney general advances investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe archive.ph/4tIOH <US Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed that the Justice Department move forward with a probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation following the recent release of documents aimed at undermining the legitimacy of the inquiry that established that Moscow interfered on the Republican's behalf in the 2016 US presidential election. <Bondi has directed a prosecutor to present evidence to a grand jury after referrals from the Trump administration's top intelligence official, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday, August 4. It was not clear which former officials might be the target of any grand jury activity, where the grand jury that might ultimately hear evidence will be located or which prosecutors − whether career employees or political appointees − might be involved in pursuing the investigation. It was also not clear what precise claims of misconduct Trump administration officials believe could form the basis of criminal charges, which a grand jury would have to sign off on for an indictment to be issued. >China Limits Public Employees’ Travel, Clamps Down on Students Abroad archive.ph/30KtC <The communist government of China has ramped up restrictions on public sector workers, now requiring even entry-level employees like primary teachers and nurses to turn in their passports to their employers. <This step, justified on the grounds of maintaining “discipline,” tightens state control over daily life and adds pressure on anyone with a government paycheque. <Alongside these internal rules, students from China who are studying abroad, especially in the UK, report increasing surveillance and harassment. Some students say state security officers have urged them to report on their peers and college activities, stirring concerns about freedom of speech and the global scope of Chinese government monitoring.

>DC residents protest surge in federal police deployment near checkpoints archive.ph/TS4te <Residents in Washington, D.C., took to the streets last night to protest the recent deployment of additional police forces under President Donald Trump's federal initiative. Demonstrators in several neighborhoods expressed their disdain for law enforcement as officers established vehicle checkpoints along busy streets. <In one instance, protesters shouted at law enforcement officials while setting up a checkpoint, while others urged drivers to divert away from upcoming checkpoints. The increased presence of federal officers has been noticeable in various areas of the city since the president announced his controversial plan. >Shellenberger: "Democrats Know How To Prevent Crime, They Just Don't Want To" archive.ph/RkL6L <A Washington Post poll shows Black residents are twice as concerned about crime as White residents. <DC’s homicide rate is higher than in any year since 2005, except during the 2020 crime spike. <Criminologists agree: “Increasing police presence prevents homicides.” <Europe has twice as many police per capita as the U.S. and far lower crime rates. >"Price-Spikes & Blackouts": America's Power Crisis Is Just Getting Started archive.ph/0GO2N <The epicenter of America's power crisis appears to be on the PJM Interconnection grid, with the Mid-Atlantic area at ground zero. Power bills in the Baltimore area are skyrocketing, driven mostly by disastrous green policies that have shuttered reliable, low-cost fossil fuel power generation plants in favor of unreliable solar and wind energy, allegedly to address a climate crisis. Now demand is surging, whether from AI data centers, EVs, or other electrification trends, which means there's a massive mismatch in power supply versus power demand. <Goldman analysts led by Hongcen Wei have been tracking the power crisis and warned in a note on Wednesday that power market tightening has expanded from the three grids they covered last month (read here) to all regional markets. <"We find that 9 out of 13 US regional power markets have already reached critical tightness this summer, while expecting all but one to reach critical tightness by 2030," Wei wrote in the note to clients. <The analyst continued, "For the rest of this summer, we highlight power reliability risks in PJM (Mid-Atlantic), MISO (Mid-Continent), the Northeast (New York and New England) and the Southeast (Florida and Tennessee), given both critical tightness and forecasted August heatwaves." <He warned: "Critical tightness could lead to power price spikes and blackouts with significant social and economic losses." >Mexico says 26 capos sent to US were requested by Trump administration, not part of tariff talks archive.ph/2cA5G <Mexico sent 26 alleged cartel figures to face justice in the United States because the Trump administration requested them and Mexico did not want them to continue running their illicit businesses from Mexican prisons, officials said Wednesday. <The mass transfer was not, however, part of wider negotiations as Mexico seeks to avoid higher tariffs threatened by U.S. President Donald Trump, the officials said. <“These transfers are not only a strategic measure to ensure public safety, but also reflect a firm determination to prevent these criminals from continuing to operate from within prisons and to break up their networks of influence,” Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said in a news conference on Wednesday. >Last chance for global plastic pollution treaty archive.ph/JeF9n <Negotiators trying to secure a global agreement on tackling the scourge of plastic pollution had just hours left to salvage a deal on Thursday after the talks plunged into disarray. <Countries wanting bold action to turn the tide on plastic garbage are so far apart from a group of oil-producing nations that the prospects of finding meaningful common ground before Friday — after three years of talks — seem low. <With just over a day to go, talks chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso produced a draft text on Wednesday based on the few areas of convergence, in an attempt to find common ground. <But the draft succeeded only in infuriating virtually all corners, and the text was immediately shredded as one country after another ripped it to bits. >China mulls asking firms run by central government to buy unsold homes to ease glut archive.ph/e6c9N <China is preparing to mobilise companies owned by the central government in Beijing to purchase unsold homes from distressed property developers, following the limited success of a previous initiative that relied on local governments, according to people familiar with the matter. <Regulators are planning to ask some of the biggest state-owned enterprises and bad debt managers including China Cinda Asset Management to help clear the housing glut, said the people, asking not to be identified discussing a private matter. <The firms will be allowed to tap 300 billion yuan (S$53.5 billion) of funding the central bank had earmarked for the programme in 2024, one of the people said. >Chinese Govt Prohibits Fishing Boats from Activities around Senkaku Islands; Ban in Area Set to Expire on Saturday archive.ph/r3l96 <The Chinese government issued an order to prohibit fishers from operating in “sensitive” sea areas just prior to Saturday’s expiration of a fishing ban in the areas around the Senkaku Islands in Okinawa Prefecture, the online edition of the Shishi Daily, a local newspaper in Shishi in China’s Fujian Province, reported. <The order is apparently aimed at avoiding an excessive rise in tension between Japan and China. <According to the newspaper’s report, a meeting was held between authorities and fishing industry representatives on Aug. 8. The authorities demanded strict adherence to a red line in sensitive sea areas and no illegal activities in order to maintain order and stability. >145-Year-Old Kodak Faces New Financial Hurdles, Rejects Closure Claims archive.ph/kRrpM <The Eastman Kodak Company, a fixture in photography for over a century, is once again dealing with serious financial trouble. In its second-quarter results shared on 11 August 2025, Kodak raised concerns about its ability to continue operating.

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<Kodac was pointing to over $470 million in debt due within the next year, and no firm funding was yet lined up to meet these payments. Despite this, the company has dismissed speculation about shutting down and says it believes in its current recovery plan. >Washington Post: D.C. to See More Federal Troops as Trump Pushes to Extend Emergency archive.ph/ZevMt <The impact of Trump’s federal actions came into view Tuesday night, with National Guard troops on the ground and agents from numerous federal agencies roaming D.C. streets from the National Mall to busy corridors in Columbia Heights. The White House said the overnight operation would soon become a 24/7 affair, with a significantly greater National Guard presence – and Trump said he intended to ask Congress to extend the emergency allowing him to federalize D.C. police beyond 30 days. <“We’re going to be asking for extensions on that – long-term extensions, because you can’t have 30 days,” Trump said Wednesday, adding that his administration would be pushing a crime bill to use the city as “a very positive example.”

>88% of students report pretending to hold more progressive views than they really do archive.ph/WySPn <Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with undergraduates at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. We were not studying politics — we were studying development. Our question was clinical, not political: “What happens to identity formation when belief is replaced by adherence to orthodoxy?” <We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes. <These students were not cynical, but adaptive. In a campus environment where grades, leadership, and peer belonging often hinge on fluency in performative morality, young adults quickly learn to rehearse what is safe. <This dissonance shows up everywhere. Seventy-eight percent of students told us they self-censor on their beliefs surrounding gender identity; 72 percent on politics; 68 percent on family values. More than 80 percent said they had submitted classwork that misrepresented their views in order to align with professors. For many, this has become second nature — an instinct for academic and professional self-preservation. <To test the gap between expression and belief, we used gender discourse — a contentious topic both highly visible and ideologically loaded. In public, students echoed expected progressive narratives. In private, however, their views were more complex. Eighty-seven percent identified as exclusively heterosexual and supported a binary model of gender. Nine percent expressed partial openness to gender fluidity. Just seven percent embraced the idea of gender as a broad spectrum, and most of these belonged to activist circles. <Perhaps most telling: 77 percent said they disagreed with the idea that gender identity should override biological sex in such domains as sports, healthcare, or public data — but would never voice that disagreement aloud. Thirty-eight percent described themselves as “morally confused,” uncertain whether honesty was still ethical if it meant exclusion. <Authenticity, once considered a psychological good, has become a social liability. And this fragmentation doesn’t end at the classroom door. Seventy-three percent of students reported mistrust in conversations about these values with close friends. Nearly half said they routinely conceal beliefs in intimate relationships for fear of ideological fallout. This is not simply peer pressure — it is identity regulation at scale, and it is being institutionalized. <Universities often justify these dynamics in the name of inclusion. But inclusion that demands dishonesty is not ensuring psychological safety — it is sanctioning self-abandonment. In attempting to engineer moral unity, higher education has mistaken consensus for growth and compliance for care. <Students know something is wrong. When given permission to speak freely, many described the experience of participating in our survey not as liberating, but as clarifying. They weren’t escaping responsibility — they were reclaiming it. For students trained to perform, the act of telling the truth felt radical.

Shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Suspect is Reportedly Transgender >Shooting at Catholic School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 2 Children Dead, 17 People Injured archive.ph/deyFd <A shooter opened fire with a rifle Wednesday through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis and struck some of the nearly 200 children celebrating Mass during the first week of school, killing two and wounding 17 people in an act of violence the police chief called “absolutely incomprehensible.” <Armed with a rifle, shotgun and pistol, 23-year-old Robin Westman approached the side of the church and shot dozens of rounds through the windows toward the children sitting in the pews during Mass at the Annunciation Catholic School just before 8:30 a.m., Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said at news conferences. He said the shooter then died by suicide. <Federal officials referred to Westman as transgender, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey decried hatred being directed at “our transgender community.” Westman’s gender identity wasn’t clear. In 2020, a judge approved a petition, signed by Westman’s mother, asking for a name change from Robert to Robin, saying the petitioner “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.” >What we know about Minnesota school shooting suspect Robin Westman archive.ph/nRbvY <The suspect died at the scene from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. <Driver's license information reviewed by ABC News describes Westman as a female, born on June 17, 2002. <A name change application for a minor born on the same date was approved by a district court in Minnesota in 2020, changing the name of a Robert Westman to Robin Westman, explaining the minor child "identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification." >Minneapolis Suspect Knew Her Target, but Motive Is a Mystery archive.ph/cnUol <And Ms. Westman, armed with three weapons, seemed to choose the time carefully. She barricaded the doors during the first all-school Mass of the academic year, the police said. <In seemingly stream-of-consciousness videos that she posted, she fixated on guns, violence and school shooters. She displayed her own cache of weapons, bullets and what appear to be explosive devices, scrawled with antisemitic and racist language and threats against President Donald Trump. <The videos also show pages from a diary, with long entries describing self hatred, violence against children, and a desire to inflict harm on herself. The diary entries are almost entirely written in English, but using Cyrillic letters. A sticker in the diary displays L.G.B.T.Q. and transgender flags with a gun and the slogan “Defend Equality.”