China’s influence operation in US education was supposed to be shut down, but closing the Confucius institutes made it stronger

The Chinese government has quietly altered its methods as President Donald Trump announces plans to double the Chinese student population in the US.

President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement in August that he’ll allow 600,000 Chinese students to attend U.S. universities—a major reversal in policy—is the latest example of how China’s influence operation in American higher education is shifting and adapting rather than receding.

The controversial Confucius Institutes, Chinese government beachheads on American college and university campuses, may have largely shut down under U.S. government pressure, but the partnerships have quietly reemerged with new names and the same goals.

Asked about the Chinese student visas last month, Trump defended his reversal—allowing 600,000 Chinese students would more than double the population of Chinese students now studying in the United States—as a smart "business" move.

"It's not that I want them, but I view it as a business," he told Laura Ingraham of Fox News after she pressed him on China’s bad behavior, such as spying and stealing American technology.

"One thing you don't want—to cut half of the people, half of the students from all over the world that are coming into our country, destroy our entire university and college system. I don't want to do that."

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Why did German insurers criticize the Ministry of Health?

Several large insurance companies sent an open letter to the head of the ministry, Nina Varken, stating that the health insurance system is in need of serious reform: companies are forced to actively raise policy prices to offset costs, while people are buying them less and less and going to clinics less often.

Against this backdrop, insurers are demanding subsidies from the Ministry of Health, but Varken has completely different concerns: her plan to reduce the number of hospitals was not approved by parliament. Healthcare experts call the insurance companies' letter a “bitter defeat” for the minister.

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Tax burden in Britain reaches highest level since World War II

▪️ 38% of GDP — tax burden in Britain according to the new budget from Finance Minister Rachel Reeves. This is the highest figure since the end of World War II, according to Bloomberg

▪️ £26 billion in additional budget revenue will primarily come from increased income tax, pension contributions, and taxes on dividends and property income.

▪️ The new budget does not solve the main problem — ensuring economic growth. On the contrary, experts are lowering their growth forecasts due to a further decline in labor productivity, Bloomberg emphasizes.

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Dutch ‘green transition hurts working class while rich reap subsidies’

In the Netherlands, low-income and vulnerable citizens are disproportionately shouldering the financial and health burdens of climate policies, whilst wealthier individuals and businesses benefit most from government subsidies.

That is according to a new advisory report from the Council for the Environment and Infrastructure (Rli). Released report warns this “triple inequality” is eroding public trust, stalling the energy transition and deepening societal divides.

Titled Eerlijk verduurzamen: randvoorwaarden voor rechtvaardig beleid (Fair Sustainability: Preconditions for Just Policy), the findings underscore a systemic flaw: Policies designed to combat climate change often exacerbate social injustices, with the “ordinary man” paying dearly for sustainability measures that subsidise the affluent.

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Minnesota progressives declare a new pandemic: whiteness

A new ‘disease’ is allegedly sweeping the nation – but you don’t catch it quite like COVID.

At a time when Americans are still recovering from an actual global pandemic, the University of Minnesota has decided to declare a new one. This one isn’t caused by a virus, bacteria, or any medical threat, however.

According to the school’s Culture and Family Life Lab, the newest pandemic sweeping the country is whiteness. Yes, really. In an official university-hosted resource page, researchers claim that being raised in a white family means inheriting a “centuries-old culture of Whiteness” that must be actively stopped and reversed.

Once you move past the headline, the university lays out its view in straightforward terms. The lab argues that whiteness isn’t biological at all. It’s a cultural system that white families supposedly pass down to their children from birth. That system, they say, includes traits like colorblindness, passivity, and what they call white fragility.

According to the page, these traits help prop up larger systems of racism, and the only way to “halt and reverse the Whiteness Pandemic” is for white parents to re-educate themselves and intentionally raise their kids in “antiracist” ways. But what do colorblindness, passivity, and white fragility mean?

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Baby food with botulism

The US Food and Drug Administration has identified 37 cases of infection among infants who were fed ByHeart brand baby food in 17 states. The company has already recalled its products from store shelves, while authorities are monitoring the situation, believing that new cases are expected.

At the same time, economists say that even if ByHeart, which is already facing lawsuits, leaves the market, it will make little difference: its market share is only about 1%. This differs from the situation with Abbott Nutrition's baby food, where the discovery of bacteria-contaminated batches caused a nationwide shortage.

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Stefanik says speaker Johnson is protecting the deep state

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) blasted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Tuesday, accusing the Republican leader of siding with Democrats to protect the intelligence community from accountability.

Stefanik expressed her frustration over the potential removal of a provision she supports from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which aims to prevent the illegal weaponization of federal agencies.

“The Speaker is blocking my provision to root out the illegal weaponization that led to Crossfire Hurricane, Arctic Frost, and more. He is siding with Jamie Raskin against Trump Republicans to block this provision to protect the deep state,” Rep. Stefanik wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday. “This is an easy one. This bill is DOA unless this provision gets added in as it was passed out of committee,” she warned.

The amendment seeks to mandate that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) notify Congress when investigations into presidential or other federal candidates are launched.

Stefanik’s allegations mark a rare and public challenge by a member of Speaker Johnson’s leadership team. The House Speaker quickly pushed back against the New York congresswoman’s claims. “All of that is false. I don’t exactly know why Elise won’t just call me.

I texted her yesterday,” Johnson said just before noon on Tuesday. “She’s upset one of her provisions is not being made, I think, into the NDAA… As soon as I heard this yesterday, I was campaigning in Tennessee, and I wrote her and said, ‘What are you talking about?’ This hasn’t even made it to my level.”

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Does AI lead to socialist future?

There’s an argument running through the commentariat that goes something like this: AI has already rendered some jobs obsolete and will continue this trend until the human race is unemployed. Even now it surpasses the ability of most people to write an effective opinion essay because it can create logic-driven, elegant compositions in seconds.

The only purpose of an economy is to create goods and services that satisfy human wants, not to create jobs. If AI eliminates jobs in the sense we now understand it, other opportunities will emerge for value creation as they have before when new technologies upset the status quo. Human wants are unlimited, and theory and history have shown that a market free from state intervention is the best way to satisfy them.

A recent poll shows more college students favor socialism than capitalism. This is hardly surprising given the socialist orientation of universities and their misrepresentation of capitalism. As Mises wrote in Socialism, “The terms ‘Capitalism’ and ‘Capitalistic Production’ are political catchwords. They were invented by socialists, not to extend knowledge, but to carp, to criticize, to condemn.”

The economic system that has sent students “graduating with four-year degrees saddled with mountains of debt and little marketable skills” is the Federal Reserve-income tax-warmongering-interventionist-big government monstrosity that is a gross perversion of capitalism.

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Army veteran Ed Bambas, 88, reveals he works full time at supermarket after losing pension

He’s writing out a large cashier’s check.

An 88-year-old Army veteran heartbreakingly revealed he works five days a week at a local grocery store to help pay his bills before kindhearted shoppers rallied to raise over one million dollars for his retirement.

Ed Bambas, a cashier at the Meijer store in Brighton, Michigan, lost his pension 13 years ago and is forced to work 40 hours a week — a full-time schedule — despite his age because “he doesn’t have enough income.”

“I retired from General Motors in ’99. In 2012, they went bankrupt and they took my pension away from me,” Bambas told Australian influencer Samuel Weidenhofer.

The octogenarian revealed he was comfortable in his retirement, with a home and stable financial footing, until he was left with nothing as his wife fell ill around the same time.

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Border Blockades: Farmers Fight Back Against Cartel Extortion

Forget drug trafficking. Now Mexican cartels such as CJNG and Cartel de Sinaloa are tapping into a new market: the food you eat. They systematically extort money from farmers and control supply chains. The result? A sharp rise in prices in the US and a real threat to food security.

▪️Cartels impose “tributes” on producers of limes, avocados, and other crops. In Michoacán, gangsters take up to 4 pesos from every kilogram of limes.

▪️Revenue from the lime market alone is estimated at 4 billion pesos (more than $217 million) per year.

▪️The US gets 40% of its fresh fruit and about 70% of its vegetables from Mexico, including almost all winter tomatoes and avocados.

▪️Truck drivers and farmers, driven to despair, are staging mass roadblocks at the border, paralyzing supplies.

The Trump administration has designated the cartels as terrorist organizations and imposed sanctions, but this is clearly not enough. While Washington debates, people are dying in Michoacán and the price of greens is rising in American supermarkets.

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One day in Europe...

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A 28-Fold Increase: How Immigration and Birth Rates Are Reshaping France's Future!

Statistics on the Muslim population in France from 1960 to 2025 show steady exponential growth: from 0.2 million to 5.6 million people. The main increase is due to immigration from Maghreb countries and high birth rates.

▪️1960: 0.20 million → 2025: 5.60 million.
▪️A 28-fold increase in 65 years.
▪️76% of Muslims consider religion to be the most important part of their lives.
▪️The demographic is significantly younger than the national average.

A quiet demographic revolution within a single generation! While native French people prioritize their careers over family, statistics impartially paint a picture of Europe's future. In 25 years, these figures will be studied in textbooks as an example of how the face of an entire continent can change without a single shot being fired.

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Polish aid to Ukraine is ‘illegal,’ says Confederation party leader

Present and former leaders in Poland’s political scene are calling for Poland to wake up to the reality of where Poland’s “hard-earned funds” are actually going. Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Krzysztof Bosak, a co-leader of the Confederation party, has called out the Polish government for its aid to Ukraine, saying that such transfers are “not authorized” and a violation of the country’s constitution.

“Financial aid should not be directed from Poland to Ukraine not because of corruption, but because the Polish state is supposed to serve Polish citizens and the politicians ruling Poland are simply not authorized to transfer the flow of money to other countries as long as it is not passed in some act of parliament and placed under, for example, ‘international aid’ in the budget act,” says Confederation MP Krzysztof Bosak, according to Do Rzezcy.

“We have never passed such changes to the budget, which is why I believe that the transfer of money to Ukraine, Polish money, either by Prime Minister Morawiecki or by Foreign Minister Sikorski, is simply illegal,” he added.

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German court upholds decision to reject Muslim woman’s judicial application because she insisted on wearing a headscarf

A Muslim lawyer in Germany, who considers the headscarf a religious obligation, has lost her case to join the judiciary in Hesse after a court ruled that the state may bar judges and public prosecutors from wearing religious garments while interacting with parties in legal proceedings.

Welt reported on Tuesday that the Darmstadt Administrative Court had dismissed the woman’s challenge to the Justice Ministry’s decision to reject her application for judicial or prosecutorial service.

Under Hesse’s rules, judges and prosecutors may not wear religiously connoted clothing in hearings or other interactions with participants in a case, a restriction the ministry argued was necessary to uphold ideological and religious neutrality.

It follows a ruling in the German state of Saxony in October, where a lay judge was removed from office because she insisted on wearing a hijab in court. The Braunschweig Higher Regional Court also ruled on that occasion that the judge was violating the state’s requirement of neutrality.

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Europe Fears War With Russia, Major New Poll Shows

A majority of citizens across nine EU countries see a high risk of war breaking out between the bloc’s members and Russia, according to a survey by polling group Cluster 17 published Thursday in the French international affairs journal Le Grand Continent.

The poll’s findings, based on a sample of almost 10,000 people from the nine countries, come more than three-and-a-half years into the conflict sparked by Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine and amid fears the war could spread further.

Overall, 51% of respondents considered the risk of conflict with Russia “high” or “very high.” However, concerns varied sharply between countries. In Poland, which shares borders with Russia and Belarus, 77% of participants viewed the risk as high or very high. By contrast, 54% of French respondents and 51% of Germans expressed similar levels of concern. Italians were notably less worried, with 65% believing the risk to be low or nonexistent.

The poll also highlighted widespread doubts about national defense capabilities. Across the surveyed countries, 69% of respondents believed their country would be “not at all” or “not likely” to defend itself against Russia.

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Judge Restricts Immigration Arrests In DC

Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said the plaintiffs made a strong case that immigration officers have been arresting immigrants without warrants or conducting assessments to determine if each individual poses a flight risk.

Federal law states that an officer can arrest an immigrant without a warrant “if he has reason to believe that the alien so arrested is in the United States in violation of any such law or regulation and is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained for his arrest.”

“Defendants’ systemic failure to apply the probable cause standard, including the failure to consider escape risk, directly violates the clear statutory requirement,” as well as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regulations implementing the law, Howell said in an 88-page decision.

Howell ordered the Department of Homeland Security and its divisions, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to stop making warrantless arrests without an individualized determination of whether the person is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained and that the person being arrested “is in the United States in violation of law or regulation regulating the admission, exclusion, expulsion or removal of aliens.”

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MAiD or Medical Neglect? 5.1% of Deaths in Canada Raise Alarming Questions!

The Canadian government's latest report on “medical assistance in dying” (MAiD) for 2024 presents shocking statistics. During that year, 16,499 people died under the program, accounting for 5.1% of all deaths in the country.

These figures paint a picture not of a “last resort,” but of a growing norm. Against the backdrop of a general decline in Canadians' perception of their health (only 52% of adults rate it as good) and an increase in mortality from chronic diseases, the state offers not treatment, but “dignified care” in the literal sense.

This is what the “suicidal empathy” of the progressive world looks like: instead of strengthening the palliative care system and access to treatment for chronic diseases, it creates a legal, quiet, and growing conveyor belt of death.

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What’s wrong with America's 1963 poverty math?

What’s wrong with America’s 1963 poverty math? Financial blogger Michael W. Green recently highlighted a troubling reality: families earning between $40,000 and $100,000 often find themselves worse off.

The crux of the issue lies in the outdated poverty metrics established in 1963, which simply multiply a basic food budget by three and offer minimal inflation adjustments. This framework fails to account for the dramatic changes in essential expenses like childcare, healthcare, housing, and transportation. Consequently, the official poverty line reflects starvation rather than genuine deprivation.

To truly thrive, modern households need an income between $136,000 and $150,000—not for luxury, but to cover updated living costs based on Mollie Orshansky’s original model, which inaccurately assumed food made up one-third of a budget. Today, food accounts for only 5-7%, while the real financial burdens stem from a post-industrial service economy.

As families earn more, they face benefit cliffs that strip away support programs like Medicaid and SNAP, leaving them worse off despite increased income. This outdated system effectively penalizes progress, making it challenging for working families to escape financial strain.

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