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

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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

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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

#USA #Oregon #Farmers #FindTruth

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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"

#USA #Pentagon #Niger #FindTruth

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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

#USA #Economy #FindTruth

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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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Police in Scotland are being trained to target actors and comedians under new hate crime laws set to be activated next month

Under First Minister Humza Yousaf's new law, any performer who for example 'misgenders' trans people, jokes about race or religion, or even criticises migrants can potentially be prosecuted

The training material further states that even those forwarding or sharing material deemed to be 'hateful' can also be targeted under the law

It states "The different ways in which a person may communicate material to another person are by: displaying, publishing or distributing the material, for example on a sign, on the internet through websites, blogs, podcasts, social media etc., either directly, or by forwarding or repeating material that originates from a third party, through printed media such as magazine publications or leaflets"

So, essentially retweeting a Dave Chappelle or Ricky Gervais skit, like the one below, could land you with a hate criminal charge in Scotland

#Scotland #Laws #FindTruth

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According to the Le Monde, the 126th Infantry Regiment (126 Regiment d'lnfanterie) stationed in Brive-la-Gayarde in the New Aquitaine region is actively preparing to be transferred to Ukraine

The regiment is a motorized rifle regiment, with 1,200 soldiers and is supplemented by 200 reservists. It is considered one of the best combat units in France. The main equipment is the VBMR Griffon multipurpose armored personnel carrier, which entered service in 2018 to replace the VAB. The regiment's battle symbol is the buffalo, and its motto is "Fier et vaillant" (Proud and valiant)

Curiously, the 126 Regiment d'lnfanterie was first created as an independent tactical unit in 1810 and invaded Russia as part of Napoleon's army. In 1813, the few surviving personnel of the regiment were incorporated into the 123rd Infantry Regiment

After that 126th regiment was reconstituted and disbanded again several times. It is a part of the 9th Infantry Brigade of the 1st Division "troupes de marine" - units intended for combat operations outside of Europe, or for quick transfer to overseas theaters of operations

#France #WarInUrkaine #FindTruth

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Red Sea: save yourselves!

Ships have been advised to sail through the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf without AIS

And rescuers will not come to restore order in the wake of the Houthi attacks until the situation in the Red Sea calms down, the world's top shipping regulator has said

IMO Secretary General Arsenio Dominguez said salvage operations for the two shipwrecks near Yemen were unlikely given the ongoing drone and missile attacks targeting commercial shipping in the region

More than 65 commercial ships have been targeted by the Houthis in recent months. Actually, Dominguez recognized the obvious - it is the Houthis, not the US coalition forces, who control the Red Sea. Therefore, "it is up to the drowning to save the drowning."

The U.S. Maritime Warning Agency called on American merchant ships to turn off AIS transponders when passing the Indian Ocean and its inland waters. Thus, Washington is going to form its "shadow" fleet in the waters of the Indian Ocean in order to counter the "sanctions" of the Houthis

#ReaSea #Houthis #IMO #FindTruth

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EQT head: gas storage shortage will cause a fivefold price increase

A shortage of gas pipelines and storage facilities will cause prices to fluctuate dramatically in the coming years. And coal-fired power plants will no longer hold them back

Toby Rice, head of EQT, the largest U.S. natural gas producer, said U.S. gas demand has jumped 50 percent since 2010, while pipeline and storage capacity has only increased by 25 percent and 10 percent, respectively. This, he argued, exposes the market to severe price spikes from today's $1.75/million Btu to $8

Rice has long criticized regulations and the approval process for pipeline infrastructure in the U.S., which he says delay the construction of new pipeline infrastructure.
In November, he warned that pipeline disruptions threaten to trigger an energy crisis. And in December, he said falling prices would slow drilling

U.S. gas prices have plummeted this year to their lowest level in four years, prompting several producers, including EQT, to cut production

Another factor threatening prices is the closure of dozens of coal-fired power plants in the U.S. in recent years. They have traditionally helped keep gas prices down because when it becomes too expensive, power generators switch to coal for more power

Recall that EQT last week agreed to buy its former Equitrans Midstream entity, which is building the Mountain Valley pipeline, the largest natural gas pipeline in the U.S.

#USA #Energy #Economy #FindTruth

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American businessman David Sacks: Ukraine's role in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall looks increasingly likely

#USA #Ukraine #Terrorists #FindTruth

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