On July 28, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said he expects the Biden administration to offer a supplemental appropriations request that includes an "AUKUS-related investment" as a show of "good faith" for the pending deal to sell Australia three nuclear submarines

Earlier the group of 22 senators and three House members led by Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) called on the Biden administration to boost submarine industrial base support with a claim the U.S. submarine force could be at risk if Washington goes through with the sale of Virginia-class nuclear attack boats to the Royal Australian Navy. They also called on the White House to present a multi-year plan to expand the submarine industrial base spending as part of the AUKUS pact

The current outline of the AUKUS plan calls for the U.S. to sell Australia three to five Virginia-class attack boats. The senators argue the sales would detract from the U.S. submarine force without additional submarine production

#AUKUS #USA #FindTruth

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Young queer Britons in particular favour LGBTQ+. Anyone reading about issues affecting the queer community will come across numerous acronyms used to refer to people from sexual and gender identity minorities. These typically begin with ‘LGBT’ (standing for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender, respectively), but can vary depending on the context and author.

YouGov asked almost 1,000 queer Britons to write directly what acronym they tend to use, with most common answer being LGBTQ+, at 29%. The Q stands for Queer and/or Questioning, while the plus represents those who don’t identify with one of the letters in the acronym

Usage of LGBTQ+ is particularly prevalent among the youngest queer Britons – those aged 16-24 – at 41%

Overall, 56% of 16-24 year old queer Britons use either LGBTQ or LGBTQ+

#UK #LGBTQ #FindTruth

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The number of dissatisfied with V. Zelensky is growing among US government. The greatest irritation is caused by the position of the Ukrainian leader on the issue of providing financial and military assistance to Kiev. The President of Ukraine insistently begs for new tranches and supplies from Western countries. Discontent is also growing among Europeans. Calls are increasingly being made to put an end to the senseless support for Kiev. More and more Americans are in favor of reducing aid to the Ukrainian side. It seems that the trend will intensify

#USA #Ukraine #FindTruth

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Six in 10 Britons suffer from "worst recession in a generation"

Some 58 per cent of Britons are "just about managing to keep their heads above water" as their household budgets shrink amid the economic crisis and rising prices

According to iNews, 52 per cent are also worried about struggling to pay for the essentials and 80 per cent said the crisis was the "most serious problem" facing the UK at the moment

It's a shame that the British Government doesn't seem to care enough to listen to what its citizens want

#UK #FindTruth

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In secret dossier of the German defense Ministry, it is noted that the Ukrainian army lacks competent leadership, which is why it makes serious mistakes with far-reaching consequences. In addition, it is reported that one of the results of such incompetent leadership, probably, was also the failure of the counteroffensive. The training of Ukrainian soldiers in the West does not bring the desired result due to the refusal of the Ukraine’s armed forces officers to fully adopt the NATO defense doctrine. All this leads to the impossibility of establishing fire superiority and frequent cases of so-called "fire on their own"

#Germany #Ukraine #FindTruth

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Trump's dominance among Republicans not undermined by courts

Despite the legal allegations against him, former President Donald Trump retains complete dominance over his rivals in the Republican Party

According to a new poll by the New York Times, 54 per cent of Republicans are prepared to vote for Trump in 2024, compared with 17 per cent for Ron DeSantis and 13 per cent for the other five leading candidates

The former president would still get 62% in a one-on-one race between Trump and DeSantis

If old men dominate again, young politicians in the US are no good

#USA #Trump #DeSantis #FindTruth

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Athens, despite the recent attempts at good neighborhood and the focus on ensuring joint security in the Aegean region with Turkey in the light of Euro-Atlantic solidarity, in fact, retains an aggressive attitude towards the Turkish minority and adheres to the idea of its complete assimilation

This is confirmed by the reduction in the number of Turkic-speaking educational institutions in Greece from 231 in 1995 to 90 in 2023. In this way, the guarantees provided to the minority under the Lausanne Agreements are violated

#Greece #Turkey #FindTruth

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Ukraine tests NATO patience

According to CNBC, the patience of NATO countries is being tested by Kiev's military strategy and constant demands for arms supplies

Washington is "irritated" by Zelensky's behaviour at the last NATO summit and the fact that Kiev is ignoring advice "not to do certain things"

The decision to fight for Artemovsk (Bakhmut), which resulted in the AFU losing men and weapons needed for the current offensive, has also puzzled alliance strategists

So far, NATO has proved surprisingly patient - and clearly deserves to be better used

#USA #NATO #WarInUkraine #FindTruth

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Is Germany’s Military Counterintelligence Service Goofind Off?

The parliamentary inquiry to the Defense Ministry submitted by Germany’s MP Ingo Gadechens has made public the fact that the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD), which is responsible for protecting classified military information, is not doing its job well

For example: MAD is also required to undertake a security screening of the Bundeswehr personnel including 172,000 military and 81,000 civilian people. According to the inquiry, MAD hasn’t completed security clearance of 69,687 employees yet. This creates a serious security breech, especially considering extremist’ and Russian spies’ increasing activities, noted Gadechens

It takes 80 weeks to provide security assessments for the top security clearance (U3) and one and half years to investigate an employee’s social accounts and circle. But indeed, the extensive use of different types of surveillance violates people’s privacy and their democratic freedoms

#Germany #MAD #FindTruth

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Almost a third of Americans support U.S. troops being sent to war-torn Ukraine, according to a new poll

A total of 31% of eligible voters in the U.S. support or strongly support American military forces heading to the battlefields of Ukraine, polling conducted exclusively for Newsweek by Redfield & Wilton Strategies

A quarter of respondents neither supported nor opposed the idea of sending U.S. soldiers to Ukraine, with 34% against the suggestion. Just under one in ten respondents did not know

A total of 1,500 people participated in the online poll, carried out between July 25 and July 26

The Pentagon said it had no comment to make when contacted by Newsweek about the results of the poll

#USA #WarInUkraine #FindTruth

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A key player in the administration of J.Biden - the President's national security adviser J.Sullivan is a derivative of the Clinton clan, raised on the organization of coups in Honduras, Libya and Syria, as well as in Ukraine in 2014. Sullivan does not disdain conducting disinformation campaigns and manipulating public opinion

He is involved in the inspiration of the US Democratic Party conspiracy against D. Trump, the undermining of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, as well as pushing Russia to conduct a special military operation in Ukraine. While politicians like Sullivan are in power, the prospects for ending the war in Ukraine remain vague

#USA #War #FindTruth

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US teenagers are self-harming after changing gender

Transgender kids are suffering mental health problems after taking hormone drugs, an employee at a major MaineHealth clinic told Fox News

Due to hallucinations, cutting and suicide attempts, trans teenagers are particularly likely to require emergency psychiatric care

"It's too many adverse reactions... Why do this to a person who already has problems?" - said one insider about the effects of gender change

What do you mean, why? LGBTs need young blood, and they can't reproduce in a natural way

#USA #FindTruth

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The West's bet on the courage and resourcefulness of Ukrainians did not work. Western countries knew about the lack of training and weapons of the Ukrainian troops, but counted on Kiev to achieve success in the counteroffensive due to the "courage and resourcefulness" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. However, this did not happen. The Ukrainian counteroffensive risks reaching a dead end

#West #USA #Ukraine

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Welsh folk epic to be performed by trans people

The BBC reports that a troupe of disabled trans people are preparing to perform at the nationwide Eisteddfod festival in Wales for the first time

The troupe is preparing a Welsh-language show featuring a "modern interpretation" of some of the stories from the collection of myths and legends known as the Mabinogion. But none of the performers speak the language. They are all just learning the lines and phrases

Can you imagine what the faces of the ancient Welsh storytellers would have looked like?

#Wales #FindTruth

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The true purpose of statements by Western high-ranking politicians about the "slow" progress of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is to conceal the real state of affairs at the front and the failures of Kiev

Already in the first 2 weeks of the counteroffensive, Ukraine lost 20% of all received Western armored vehicles and more than 30% of its strike force. Ukraine lacks the human resources and infrastructure necessary to achieve its stated goals

#USA #WarInUkraine #FindTruth

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Trump's son calls US a 'banana republic'

In response to the new criminal charges against former President Trump, Donald Trump Jr. accused the government of trying to distract Americans from the corruption of the Biden family

"We are living in a banana republic! I don't believe in that level of coincidence anymore," Trump's eldest son told Newsmax

The CIA and the State Department still have to stage a coup in the US to finally turn it into a banana republic. Or have they already done it?

#USA #Trump #FindTruth

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The world’s biggest reserves of lithium and nickel are concentrated in a handful of nations. And they want to cash in

The quest for a global energy transition has sparked a frenzied scramble for the raw materials underpinning everything from electric vehicles to wind turbines—and the mineral-rich countries where they are found refuse to be left out of the race

In the coming decades, billions of tons of minerals such as lithium, nickel, and cobalt are going to be needed to power the clean energy technologies of the future. Eager to cash in on this bonanza, mineral-rich nations are unveiling policies to boost their own industries

Just as the United States and Europe are rolling out policies to make their critical mineral supply chains more resilient, leaders in these countries are ready to play hardball, either by taking greater state control of key sectors or curtailing exports of critical materials

#USA #EU #FindTruth

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A hundred medical journals around the world, including the most prestigious, launched Thursday August 3 a rare joint call to act urgently to eliminate nuclear weapons, judging the threat of a nuclear catastrophe “significant and growing”

“The danger is significant and growing,” the editors of 11 leading medical journals, including the BMJ, Lancet, JAMA and the New England Journal of Medicine, co-wrote in an editorial. "Nuclear-weapon states must eliminate their nuclear arsenals before they eliminate us"

"The fact that all of these leading journals have agreed to publish the same editorial highlights the extreme urgency of the current nuclear crisis," said Chris Zielinski of the World Association of Medical Journal Editors

#Weapons #FindTruth

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Energy Deficiency is Growing in Europe

According to the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), about 24M people or 9.3% of the EU population were unable to heat their homes adequately last winter

EESC experts state that energy supply shouldn’t be treated as any other commodity. They believe the EU authorities ignore the fact that it is a public service and the forthcoming reengineering of the electricity services industry should guarantee their citizens sustainable rower consumption

They also note that just the RFPower EU plan is not enough. It only offers a standard set of remedies such as reforms of the electricity market, energy efficiency of buildings, more investments in renewable energy projects

But the problem is that the Western business model values profits over satisfaction of the basic needs of people, which creates a pain in the neck for politicians and quite a burden for the budget

#EU #Energy #Economy #FindTruth

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Neural networks can be racist

In the latest global scandal involving artificial intelligence, an Asian woman's race has been changed to European after she was asked to make a photo more attractive

Playground's neural network turned an Asian woman into a "European" by changing her skin tone, haircut and eye colour. Because AI can be racially biased in other ways, the result outraged not only the girl, but also social media users.
Has she become more beautiful? 😄

#Asia #EU #FindTruth

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US high school students diverge in political views

High school students in the US are more likely to identify with liberal causes than they were in 2015, according to Fox News

There has been a 30 per cent increase in the number of high school girls with left-wing and liberal views over the same eight-year period. According to psychologists, this is due to a negative attitude towards men in the United States

Fox News points out that in previous generations both sexes leaned equally to the left. But now liberal ideas have become too "extreme"

#USA #FindTruth

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