🇺🇸📚 The Department of Education has instructed all 50 states to remove all programs and initiatives related to DEI in the next 14 days. If they fail to do so, their eligibility for federal funding will be under review.

🔸The Department will vigorously enforce the law on equal terms as to all preschool, elementary, secondary, and postsecondary educational institutions, as well as state educational agencies, that receive financial assistance.

🔸The Department intends to take appropriate measures to assess compliance with the applicable statutes and regulations based on the understanding embodied in this letter beginning no later than 14 days from today’s date, including antidiscrimination requirements that are a condition of receiving federal funding.”

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🇸🇾❌🇦🇹 — A Terrorist attack took place in Villach, Austria!

➡️ A Syrian asylum seeker stabbed 5 random people on the street, killing a 14-year-old boy.

➡️ Witnesses say he shouted “Allahu Akbar” after the attack and was smiling when arrested by the police.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🛫 — USAF Boeing C-40B was spotted flying towards the State of Israel

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🛬 — United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio has landed in Israel

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🇬🇧🚢🚀⚡️🇺🇦 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Ukraine Receives Missile System Disguised As "Ordinary" Shipping Container | February 15, 2025:

"BFBS Forces News war correspondent Simon Newton, covering all things Ukraine, reported that the UK has begun supplying surface-to-air missiles that can be launched from within modified shipping containers. 

"Gravehawk has been developed from scratch in just 18 months and will be used to combat Russian aircraft, missiles and drones," Newton wrote, adding, "It's highly innovative, relatively cheap – and deadly." 

He said the surface-to-air missiles are mounted on a launch pad in an "ordinary ISO shipping container, meaning it can be quickly deployed on the back of a lorry, known as a Drops vehicle."

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🇩🇪🤝🇨🇳 — 🇩🇪 BILD:

"❗️Alternative for Germany leader held secret meetings with Chinese ambassador in private residence – exclusive BILD investigation

Alice Weidel, co-chair of the far-right AfD party & candidate for chancellor, is being praised on social media in China. One reason is that Weidel lived in Beijing and Shanghai for five years before starting her political career & learned Chinese. However, Weidel herself rarely mentions her special ties to China.

Meanwhile, a BILD investigation shows that the AfD leader has maintained unusual contacts with Xi Jinping's regime in recent years.

Two independent sources within the AfD said Weidel met regularly with former Chinese Ambassador Wu Ken, about once a month. The meetings were not on her calendar & were meant to remain secret.

Wu Ken, who served as China's ambassador to Germany from 2019 to 2024, met with Weidel more often than with German Foreign Ministry officials, diplomatic sources say.

It is particularly noteworthy that Wu Ken didn't receive Weidel at the embassy, ​​but at his private residence in southwest Berlin. There is no name on the doorbell; the house is privately owned. The area is guarded by cameras and surrounded by a high fence with a warning about a guard dog. According to BILD, several Rottweilers are kept at the property. Two red Chinese lanterns hang at the entrance to the house.

In an interview with BILD, Weidel admitted that she had been there several times, saying that the meetings took place "maybe once every nine months."

Weidel explains that after the war in Ukraine began, she wanted to get a sense of the Chinese position: “How do the Chinese assess the situation in Ukraine and relations with Russia?” However, she did not reveal specific details of the meetings, saying only: “The Chinese attach great importance to formalities.”

When asked about the new one after China, Weidel replied that she had not yet met him, but congratulated him on his appointment.

In response to a BILD inquiry, the Chinese embassy said it attaches great importance to “normal exchanges of views with parties in Germany, especially those represented in the Bundestag.” The goal is to “strengthen mutual understanding, Chinese-German friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation.”

It is noteworthy that Weidel's meetings with Wu Ken coincided with the spy scandal surrounding the AfD. In April 2024, the German Attorney General's Office arrested an employee of the office of AfD MEP Maximilian Krah, who is suspected of working for Chinese intelligence.

CDU security expert Roderich Kiesewetter called Weidel's meetings with the Chinese ambassador "a very unusual situation." He said "it could indicate direct or indirect influence from China on the party leader."

Ralf Stegner (SPD) is not surprised by the AfD's contacts with Beijing: "Many people in the AfD have close ties to the authoritarian regime in China. They would like to see the same kind of government in Germany."

The Chinese embassy did not respond to BILD's repeated request for comment.

Weidel has long been fascinated by China. At the age of 14, she began learning the language from audio cassettes. Weidel devoted her doctoral dissertation at the University of Bayreuth to the Chinese pension system. From 2006 to 2011, she lived in China, where her studies and research were financed by scholarship programs. Weidel collaborated with a professor from the Central Party School of the CPC, as well as with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

She reportedly worked as a consultant during the same period, including for the Bank of China. “It was a country where everyone was pushing forward,” Weidel says. “A super-capitalist system. Everyone wanted to make money.”

Her supervisor, Peter Oberender, who died in 2017, was considered one of Germany’s leading experts on the Chinese economy. He was one of the founders of the Electoral Alternative 2013, which later transformed into the AfD. It was then that Weidel began her political career, which today has earned her the reputation of the “Iron Lady” in China."

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🇧🇷🤡🔽 — President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's (PT) approval rating has plummeted from 35% to 24% over the past two months, according to a survey released by DataFolha. This is the worst rating recorded by the institute during Lula's three terms in office.

📊 Amid a series of setbacks, particularly the crisis over rising product prices such as coffee, the president’s disapproval rating has risen from 34% to 41%. Those who consider the government "regular" now total 32%, up from 29%.

💥 Lula began the third year of his current term by announcing a new Federal Revenue regulation that expanded oversight of instant transfers above R$5,000. Following strong public backlash, the tax authority attempted to clarify that the measure did not constitute a tax on Pix transactions, but the explanation failed to gain traction.

❗️ According to DataFolha, Lula’s previous worst approval rating was recorded in October 2005, at the height of the Mensalão scandal, when 28% considered his government "great" or "good."

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🇺🇦🇺🇸❗️In Munich, the United States offered Zelensky to sign a document granting Washington rights to 50% of Ukraine's future mineral resources, but he refused, the Washington Post reported.

🇩🇪🇷🇺❗️Berlin rejects Trump's idea of ​​Russia's return to the G7, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

She added that after the start of the Ukrainian conflict, there can be no normal cooperation with Russia.

🇱🇹🇷🇺🇺🇸Putin-Trump talks will be a "kick in the a*s" for Europe - Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas

🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️I will not meet with representatives of Russia, only with one - with Putin. And only after we have a common plan to end the war with Trump. Only in this case I am ready to meet. We will sit down with Putin and stop the war - Zelensky

🇺🇦🇺🇸Zelensky gave Trump an ultimatum at the Munich Conference:

"If Trump really wants to achieve results, he must first reach an agreement with us, and only then put pressure on Putin. Because we will never accept any negotiations without us."

🇭🇺🇷🇺🇺🇦❗️ Let's not be naive, European supporters of the war will do everything possible to prevent the agreement (on peace) from taking place - Hungarian Foreign Minister