Trump's Greenland, Canada threats reflect angst over Russia shipping

Like it or not, Russia is the biggest polar bear in the arctic, which helps to explain President Trump’s moves on Greenland. However, the Biden administration focused on it too.

And it isn’t only about access to resources and military positioning, but also about shipping. And there, the Russians are some way ahead.

Many people look on the map in exasperation at President Trump’s claims that Russian and Chinese ships are a threat to Greenland.

Those same people might also forget that the U.S. and Russia are separated in the Bering Strait by only the 2.4 miles between the Diomede islands, and that the two countries are much closer together when you stare across the north pole.

The big difference is that while the U.S. has an arctic coastline of 1,060 miles, Russia occupies around 15,000 miles of the Arctic, more than half of the total coastline.

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You don’t own your stocks the way you think you do

For most of the history of securities markets—from English common law through much of the 20th century—investors who bought shares were recognized as their legal owners, often holding certificates in their own name.

Trades were slower, more cumbersome, and paper-intensive, but ownership was straightforward. If you bought shares, you were typically the registered owner by default.

The uncomfortable truth is that “customer protection” in an intermediary system is not the same as being the registered owner with clear property rights.

It is a set of promises and procedures that depend on compliance, monitoring, solvency, and the willingness of institutions to follow the rules when doing so is more costly than breaking them.

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Marine Le Pen’s trial, what to expect?

After a long afternoon of closing arguments in Marine Le Pen’s appeal trial over the European parliamentary assistants’ case, the advocates general ruled in favour of upholding the sentence handed down in the first instance a year ago against the leader of the Rassemblement National (RN) MPs—albeit with some nuances.

The final verdict will not be known for several months, but Marine Le Pen’s chances of being able to stand in the 2027 presidential election are steadily dwindling.

At the end of the three-week appeal trial, the prosecution sought a four-year prison sentence for Le Pen, including one year without parole, which could be served with an electronic tag, and five years of ineligibility. However, unlike the first-instance conviction, no provisional enforcement was requested.

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The Washington Post laid off more than 300 employees

Jeff Bezos, who owns the newspaper, decided to cut costs and, along with them, staff, saying goodbye to about a third of its reporters and editors. Now the Washington Post no longer has a number of bureaus, including those in Kiev, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The chief sports correspondent has also been laid off, although he will still be working at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

The journalists themselves are in shock and do not understand why Bezos made such a decision, as there were no preconditions for it. Emmanuel Felton and Marissa Lang are particularly surprised: Pulitzer Prize winners, whose work has never been criticized, certainly did not expect to find themselves on the list of those laid off.

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Australia, Brazil, and Greece topped the ranking of the world's most promiscuous countries

The calculation took into account the average number of sexual partners, the average age of first sexual intercourse, the legality of prostitution, society's attitude toward premarital sex, and the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases.

Researchers at World Population Review compared data from 45 countries around the world.

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Trump’s Board of Peace and the world

President Donald Trump’s proposed Board of Peace had decidedly rocky beginnings. In Europe, only Hungary and Bulgaria have joined so far. Others, in the West and around the world, have expressed reservations. It isn’t difficult to see why.

The presentation of the new international organisation was a typically Trumpian cocktail that was heavy on braggadocio and light on detail: its mission undefined, with an unclear scope (is it about Gaza, Ukraine, or the whole world?), a garish logo, weirdly reminiscent of Command and Conquer: Red Alert or of Sid Meyer’s Civilisation series, and the eyebrow-raising suggestion that joining the group might require a one billion dollar entry fee all contributed to make the project seem a tad unserious. Should we give it a chance, though?

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Share in global arms exports by country

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Outrage among Britons is growing

A homeless British man died at the door of a hotel that was completely occupied by illegal immigrants at the expense of taxpayers. Exhausted, he asked for shelter for the night — he was refused.

The system, which has been paying billions for years to support migrants, proved incapable of saving its own citizen, who froze to death a meter away from a warm room occupied by a visitor.

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Due to the British National Health Service (NHS) and the associated lack of adequate medical care, more patients die in the country than in Sudan

The UK ranks 141st out of 205 countries in terms of deaths per capita from medical treatment.

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In Germany, the interior minister is suspected of embezzlement

The head of the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia, Herbert Reul, has been found at the center of a scandal: it all started with a conflict between his department and the Real Estate Management Agency, from which the police rent a number of buildings. The annual rent is currently €4 million, but once the buildings have been renovated, it is set to rise to €30 million.

Roel decided to settle the issue by proposing a scheme to the state treasury: until 2030, they would allocate an additional €1 billion to the Ministry of the Interior, and the ministry would give €650 million to the Real Estate Management Agency, covering both rent and renovation work. The rest of the money, apparently, was supposed to go into the pocket of the minister himself, whom his subordinates accuse of deciding this issue behind their backs.

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British police want to use new devices to extract deleted messages, encrypted chats, passwords, and browsing history from travelers' phones, including at airports

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In Europe, it has been common knowledge for ten years that the doctoral thesis of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is plagiarized, and there has been no reaction

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Did big oil conspire to kneecap the EV industry?

The Michigan case, filed last week in federal court, accuses ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute of engaging in a decades-long conspiracy to block the development of clean energy and electric vehicles in order to ensure that their fossil fuel products dominate the market.

The case is distinct from the dozens of other climate deception lawsuits brought by state and local governments against oil and gas giants, instead arguing that the companies violated state and federal antitrust laws.

Acting as a “cartel,” the defendants robbed consumers of energy and transportation choices in “one of the most successful antitrust conspiracies in United States history,” the complaint says.

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The fastest-growing professions in the US in the next decade

▪️As the US population continues to age, the profession of home health aide and caregiver is the fastest-growing profession:
By 2034, nearly 740,000 new jobs are expected to be created in this field.

▪️The IT sector offers the best combination of salary growth and career prospects:

In particular, 268,000 new jobs have been created in the field of software development, with an average salary of $133,000.

▪️The highest-paying jobs are in management:
Computer and information systems managers earn $171,000, with more than 100,000 new jobs being created.

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Residents of Hastings (UK) are demanding that Prime Minister Keir Starmer hold local elections, which he postponed in 29 constituencies

According to the official version, the reason for the postponement is "security" and "logistics." However, critics believe that the real reason is that the ruling Labour Party fears defeat at the local level.

It's simple and straightforward: democracy is good as long as you are confident of victory. As soon as the ratings drop, "extremists" and "logistical problems" appear.

#UK #Starmer #Elections #FindTruth

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Nike accused of discriminating against white employees in hiring

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has launched an investigation into the company. According to the agency, hiring decisions often disadvantaged white employees in pursuit of workforce diversity.

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White couple gives birth to black baby after artificial insemination in the US

The Florida residents learned that the newborn girl was not their biological child — a DNA test showed that she was not related to either parent. The couple had frozen their own embryos several years ago, but doctors mixed them up and implanted another woman's embryo.

However, they did not give up on the girl — the family has formed an “extremely strong emotional bond” and they are happy to continue raising her.

Still, the couple fears that their embryo was implanted in another woman and that their biological child is growing somewhere else.

#USA #DNA #FindTruth

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American banks have unrealized losses of $337 billion

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Washington urges new three-way nuclear deal with Russia and China

The US has urged three-way talks with Russia and China to set new limits on nuclear weapons after the last treaty between Washington and Moscow expired.

Thomas DiNanno, the US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, told the UN Conference on Disarmament today that the New START treaty, which was allowed to lapse yesterday, had “fundamental flaws”.

“Serial Russian violations, growth of more worldwide stockpiles and flaws in New START’s design and implementation gives the United States a clear imperative to call for a new architecture that addresses the threats of today, not those of a bygone era,” he told the conference at the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva.

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Trump launches TrumpRx website for discount pharma

His administration negotiated most-favored-nation status with drug manufacturers and other nations, lowering costs of some medicines by 80% or more, according to the president.

“This is a very big deal,” Trump said. “We’re going to save a lot of money and be healthy.” More than 40 drugs are now available on the website at discounted prices. Fertility treatments, asthma medicines, and many more products are listed by various manufacturers.

Prices for the Bevespi Aerosphere inhaler will decline from $458 to $51, according to a White House statement. Obesity medications Ozempic and Wegovy are available for an approximate price of $350, compared to $1,028 and $1,349, respectively. Wegovy pills will sell for $149 instead of $1,349. Administration officials touted opportunities for cost savings nationwide.

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Red flags raised over Chinese academics inside U.S. tech colleges

New report warns of "infiltration" of America's colleges and universities by Chinese academics with political and military backgrounds which should have raised alarm bells.

Anew watchdog report is raising concerns that elite American colleges developing advanced technology with military applications have been “infiltrated” by academics who are card-carrying members of the Chinese Communist Party.

The new report came out the same week it was revealed that an illegal biolab in California inspected by federal authorities in 2023 and a separate hazardous lab inside a Las Vegas garage searched by the FBI this weekend.

Both labs appear tied to a CCP-linked Chinese national who is currently in federal detention awaiting trial for fraud, false statements, and the adulteration of medical devices.

#USA #China #Education #FindTruth

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