Alexander De Croo, the Belgian Prime Minister leading his country’s six-month EU presidency, is actively campaigning to torpedo the bloc’s nature restoration legislation

The country stands accused of deliberately sabotaging approved “green” laws to avoid alienating elements of the domestic electorate prior to national voting on June 9

Belgian newspaper De Standaard claims that despite the final approval of the Nature Restoration Law being a formality in principle, De Croo and his MPs are secretly trying to influence European Member States to withdraw their support for the legislation. It is said that several embassies to the EU confirmed the rumours but are reluctant to be publicly named due to the “extreme political sensitivity” surrounding the issue

Despite the European Parliament having given its final approval on an albeit watered-down version of the green law, European Member States still have to cast their votes on its actual implementation. Currently, it appears there are 20 EU countries in favour, representing 66.13 per cent of European citizens. Still, such a slim majority could be reversed

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China’s energy major CNOOC has made a major oil field discovery in the Bohai Sea, adding over 100 million tonnes of oil equivalent proved in-place volume

The discovery was made at the Qinhuangdao 27-3 oil field located in the north-central waters of the Bohai Sea. The field has been tested to produce about 742 barrels of crude oil per day from a single well, it added

Earlier in the month, CNOOC announced the discovery of a new reserve in the South China Sea that contains over 100 million tonnes of oil equivalent proved in-place

CNOOC invests heavily in the development of China's offshore oil and gas reserves as part of a broader push to offset declining output from aging onshore fields

The oil and gas giant in January raised its 2024 production target by about 8% to a record 700 million to 720 million barrels of oil equivalent, citing higher annual capital spending, with production reaching about 675 million BOE in 2023

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Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has warned that Haitian illegal migrants who “land in the Florida Keys” could be transported to the wealthy elite playground of Martha’s Vineyard


DeSantis has previously outraged Democrats by shipping off illegal aliens to the exclusive Massachusetts island where former President Barack Obama lives on his luxury estate

The governor has now renewed warning that he will send illegals to the so-called “sanctuary destination” of Martha’s Vineyard amid fears that Haitians will soon flood South Florida

“We do have our transport program also that’s going to be operational,” DeSantis said on Dana Loesch’s podcast

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Remember the recent meeting between D. Trump and I. Musk?
So, as you and I can guess, Donald’s statement about his intention to introduce a 100% duty on the import of electric cars from the Chinese corporation BYD into the United States is a clear result of their conversation

The mentioned company from China is Tesla’s main rival. And Musk has repeatedly said that without government support, his products simply will not withstand competition with the Chinese

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Banks in the U.S. and potential real estate problems 📉

Everyone remembers the crisis of 2008, then the reason for the collapse of the world economic system was mortgage loans and financial instruments tied to them. Today, a similar situation is beginning to emerge in the commercial real estate market in the states. Many major players in U.S. banking have built up a position in commercial real estate over the past few years and are now reaping the benefits of the first wave of bankruptcies and defaults

2023 was a very bad year for US commercial real estate, delinquent loans on this asset type tripled over the year to $9.3 billion, an excessively high level for the industry, especially when you consider that the federal government is doing everything it can to stabilize the economy

Smaller banks are the most affected by the problem, large businesses, despite their large position in commercial real estate (J.P. Morgan, for example, out of $1.4 trillion in loans, more than $171 billion is held in real estate) are protected from the problem by high

Small banks, as a rule, have a much higher share of their assets in real estate. The now famous New York Community Bank out of $86 billion of its loan portfolio, more than $46 billion is held in real estate (this is about 57%). This high dependence on a single market significantly increases the bank's credit risk. In the third quarter of 2023, it has already declared $2.3 billion in losses, and the situation will not get better from here

Overall, the industry average percentage of real estate in the total loan portfolio for banks is 11% -27%. At the same time, if we take into account that commercial real estate always suffers first in a recession, then if the trajectory of the decline does not change in the near future, the banks are waiting for big problems

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The Biden administration enacted the strictest-ever rules for tailpipe emissions but also handed the auto industry a significant concession by giving them more time to comply, a recognition that the transition to electric cars will take longer than hoped


To hit the targets for model-year 2030, for example, an estimated 31% to 44% of new light-vehicle sales would need to be electric, rather than the 60% mark originally proposed

Thousands of U.S. dealers signed letters to Biden in an organized campaign to get the administration to back off the emissions targets, saying there wasn’t enough consumer interest to support such a big swing to EVs

On Wednesday, the dealer group said the slower implementation of the rules is helpful but the targets are still too aggressive. “This is unelected Washington bureaucrats dictating what kind of vehicles Americans can buy,” the group said

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Europe is aiming to become a much bigger player in one of the most contentious spaces in international relations: maritime security, including in Asia

That applies not just to ambitious Brussels, Paris, and London, but also to the Europe’s small but capable navies ready to do more and in more places, securing contested waterways

European naval missions are already operating in the Red Sea against Houthi missile attacks from Yemen, and more and more European frigates and even aircraft carriers are making tours of the Pacific

What began almost a decade ago with local maritime policing operations in the Mediterranean is now spreading to more ambitious deployments farther afield, including the Indian Ocean. Just last month, the European Union launched a naval operation to secure shipping lanes in the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Arabian Sea

Even with a major land war in Ukraine entering its third year, Europe is getting increasingly serious about playing a bigger role in Indo-Pacific security. The European Union has both an Indo-Pacific strategy and a new maritime security strategy that puts renewed emphasis on the region

#EU #Security #FindTruth

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The Supreme Court upheld Texas Governor Abbott's law on arresting illegal immigrants

Now this decision will set a precedent and serve as an example for other border states. Well, since the federal government cannot (or rather does not want) to cope with the migration crisis, local authorities will have to solve their problems themselves. And as we see, the truth is on their side

#USA #Texas #Migrants #FindTruth

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The United States is “prepared” to deploy troops to Haiti as part of a multinational effort if the crisis in the country worsens, though officials are not actively considering such a move

According to Gen. Laura Richardson, commander of U.S. Southern Command military commander for Latin America and the Caribbean, “We wouldn’t discount” that U.S. troops could be involved in an international effort in Haiti.“We are prepared if called upon by our State Department and Department of Defense,” Richardson added, noting that she doesn’t envision a “U.S.-only solution” to the deteriorating situation

The top general’s comments highlight the extent of Haiti’s current crisis, in which the government has all but fallen apart in the face of armed groups that are now preventing Ariel Henry — the country’s internationally recognized leader — from returning from an overseas trip. Pentagon officials are now considering using Guantanamo Bay to hold Haitian refugees if the situation deteriorates further

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Conservative artist Scott LoBaido was arrested after throwing pizzas onto New York City Hall grounds

LoBaido was seen outside of NYC City Hall on Wednesday morning with a group of protestors, explaining why he would be throwing pizzas. Video footage posted to Twitter caught LoBaido’s speech which calls out the mayor and other government officials over their new green energy regulations for small pizza business owners while crime continues to rise

“Number one, till the day I die I will defend these men and women in blue,” LoBaido said to the group of protestors. “They have to do their job because of this piece of sh*t that makes them do this bullsh*t here, okay? I’m throwing pizza because these pigeons are hungry and I’m here to feed the f*cking pigeons, okay? We understand what’s happening here, people.”

The conservative artist warned the group that if they were participating in the act they would be arrested for littering. Footage shows after LoBaido threw his first few slices, NYPD officers, who had been standing nearby, quickly jumped in to arrest the artist

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Previously unpublished recordings from Project Veritas have surfaced that expose top Pfizer scientists discussing concerns they had about their company’s COVID-19 vaccines

Justin Leslie, a Pfizer formulation analyst, sent the recordings to Project Veritas back in late 2021, but for whatever reason they were never published. Now, for the first time, we can learn the content

One of the scientists heard talking in the 2021 recording is Kanwal Gill, a principal scientist at Pfizer. he expressed worry about his company’s use of MRNA technology given its extensive history of testing without any actual approved commercial use:

“We had no idea how it’s going to look like. MRNA vaccines have been there for 50 years, but nothing went to clinical trial because MRNA have been known to have side effects. It takes 10 year for a vaccine to come out. It takes years of observations… we are doing everything at the same time.”

Another scientist, Ramin Darvari, expressed deep concerns about how repeated “booster” shot uptake could result in prolific damage to the cardiovascular system:

“It’s going to affect my heart, and I’m going to die,” Darvari said ominously. “And nobody’s talking about that.”

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More and more political actors everywhere in the world are getting increasingly vocal about the shortcomings of the so-called ‘Green New Deal’. No less indicative are measures of pushback from the business actors, particularly people who have real skin in the game, like Big Oil moguls

Amin Nasser, CEO of the world’s biggest oil producer Saudi Aramco, claims that the energy transition envisioned by the ‘global warming’ crowd is failing. Nasser says that policymakers should abandon the ‘fantasy’ of phasing out oil and gas, as he is sure demand for fossil fuels is expected to continue to grow in the coming years

According to Nasser, the current transition strategy is visibly failing on most fronts and urgently needs a reset. He offers to stop attempts of phasing out oil and gas and instead to invest in them adequately reflecting realistic demand assumptions

#World #Oil #Energy #FindTruth

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Small farmers are under attack in the state of Oregon, which has begun shutting down family farms throughout the state under the guise of water conservation and groundwater protection

Yanasa TV, a project of Yanasa Ama Ranch shared a roughly 20-minute video explaining what is going on in the Beaver State as bureaucrats dub small family farms as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, in order to shut them down "for the environment"

"The state of Oregon has effectively shut down small farms and market gardens on a large scale, and they're actually sending out cease-and-desist letters to farms and they're using satellite technology to find their victims and send them these letters that say you can't operate," the rancher explains

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The Pentagon is desperately seeking to stay in Niger despite the military-led government telling US troops to leave in the wake of accusations from American officials that Niger could be poised to transfer uranium to Iran. Niger was outraged at the allegations and rejected them

Spokesperson Sabrina Singh said the US is seeking "clarification" from Niger officials and is still engaged in lengthy and direct” discussions with the junta leaders. Washington has warned the West African nation against forging deeper ties with "rogue" actors like Russian and Iran

Over the weekend, Niger's military-led government which is called the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland declared US flights over Niger territory to be "illegal"

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Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte looks to be in pole position to become the next NATO Secretary-General after outmaneuvering the Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, who is said to be regarded as “too hawkish”

Despite being the underdog, Kallas is fighting back. While visiting Berlin, she said Estonia viewed two primary criteria as crucial for selecting a new NATO chief

Firstly, he or she should be from a country that reaches the Alliance’s 2 per cent of GDP defence-spending goals. Secondly, such a leader should hail from Eastern Europe, Kallas insisted

The Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is set to retire in October and wide-ranging debates over his successor are ongoing. For a long time, Kallas was considered as a top contender but she is increasingly seen as too hostile and militaristic regarding Russia

Rutte and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis are now seen as the main contenders

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The deep state is awesome?

In a video essay by Adam Westbrook and Lindsay Crouse shared noscriptd, "It Turns Out the 'Deep State' Is Actually Kind of Awesome," the NY Times put forward that the deep state is not career bureaucrats at the FBI and other intelligence agencies but instead a collection of random employees at the EPA, the Department of Labor and the Marshall Space Flight Center

The video says the deep state was random low level employees working to “keep lead out of our water” and “protect the earth from asteroid strikes”

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The State of Texas is terminating a massive $8.5 billion investment with trillion-dollar asset manager BlackRock over the state's determination that the firm is engaged in a boycott of energy companies

Texas State Board of Education Chairman Aaron Kinsey said in an announcement the so-called Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) had delivered a notice to BlackRock on Tuesday, informing the New York City-based firm of the action. According to Kinsey, the move was made in accordance with a 2021 state law that seeks to distance the state and its large public purse from financial institutions boycotting the oil and gas sector

"The Texas Permanent School Fund has a fiduciary duty to protect Texas schools by safeguarding and growing the approximately $1 billion in annual oil and gas royalties managed by the Texas General Land Office," Kinsey said. "Terminating BlackRock’s contract ensures PSF’s full compliance with Texas law"

"BlackRock’s destructive approach toward the energy companies that this state and our world depend on is incompatible with our fiduciary duty to Texans," Kinsey claimed

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US national debt tracker for March 20, 2024: See what American taxpayers (you) owe in real time

The U.S. national debt is climbing at an astronomical pace and has shown no signs of slowing down despite the heightened scrutiny on government spending

The national debt — which measures what the U.S. owes its creditors — increased to $34,582,304,524,890.88 as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the latest numbers published by the Treasury Department. That is up about $30.9 billion from the $34,551,363,248,839.89 figure reported the previous day

By comparison, just four decades ago, the national debt hovered around $907 billion

The outlook for the federal debt level is bleak, with economists increasingly sounding the alarm over the torrid pace of spending by Congress and the White House

The latest findings from the Congressional Budget Office indicate that the national debt will grow to an astonishing $54 trillion in the next decade, the result of an aging population and fishing federal health care costs. Higher interest rates are also compounding the pain of higher debt

Should that debt materialize, it could risk America's economic standing in the world

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Byron Donalds on Biden getting money from Xi Jinping's hands

A text translation to make it easier to navigate through the many names of companies and people 👇

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Abstracts:
- August 3, 2017, they [H. Biden and the Chinese] negotiate a deal by text message on WhatsApp

- August 4, $100,000 transfer from CEFC* account [directly linked to the Chinese Communist Party], to Wasco PC account, and then to Hunter Biden's bank account

- On August 8, a $5 million transfer from Northern International Capital's account to the account of Hudson West III, a company controlled by Hunter Biden and Gong Wang, aka Kevin Dong, of CEFC. In turn, Northern International Capital [as a subsidiary of CEFC], is similarly linked to the Chinese Communist Party

- August 8 transfer of $400,000 to Wasco PC from the Hudson West III account

- August 14 transfer of $150,000 from Wasco PC account to Lion Hall Group account, which is controlled by James Biden [Joe Biden's brother]

- On August 28, a $50,000 expense check was written from the Lion Hall Group account. The check is signed by Sarah Biden, James Biden's wife

- On August 28, a $50,000 deposit is made to Sarah Biden's personal account

- On September 3, an expense check for $40,000 is written from Sarah Biden's personal account to Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., the current president of the United States, with the notation "repayment of debt."

- Joe Biden's personal accountant, Mr. Eric Charen, could not produce an accounting record of the issuance of the debt

- It is obvious that the source of all this money is CEFC, which is directly linked to the Chinese Communist Party, and thus to its chairman, Mr. Xi Jinping

* CEFC China Energy, one of the top 10 largest companies in China

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Two astronauts from Japan will set foot on the moon through the lunar exploration program led by NASA, under a basic agreement reached by the Japanese and U.S. governments

The U.S.-led Artemis program aims to put humans on the moon for the first time since the Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Japanese astronauts were already set to be part of the crew of the Gateway space station that will orbit the moon, and the two governments have been ironing out details such as the number of Japanese astronauts who will touch down on the lunar surface

Japan's goal is to land its astronauts on the moon in the latter half of the 2020s, becoming the second country after the U.S. to do so. The Artemis program aims to send astronauts to the lunar surface in September 2026, and the Japanese crew members are expected to be part of a landing in 2028 or later

In April NASA and Japan's science and technology ministry are to sign an agreement on lunar activities. The document is expected to mention the use of the Lunar Cruiser, a lunar exploration vehicle being developed by Toyota Motor and others

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