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  1. Site: RT - News
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: RT

    Maia Sandu has been pushing for her country’s membership despite growing opposition

    Moldova’s President Maia Sandu has said her country could join the EU by 2028, despite growing opposition to her pro-Western policymaking.

    The former Soviet republic has pursued EU and NATO membership since 2020, when Sandu, a vocal critic of Russia, came to power. Moldova was granted EU candidate status in 2022, alongside Ukraine. She was re-elected last year in a controversial runoff, and has stepped up efforts to speed up the accession process.

    When asked during an interview on Monday with local broadcaster TV8 about the timeline, Sandu said she intended to conclude negotiations by the end of 2027.

    ”By 2028, we expect every EU member state to have ratified our agreements. That way we will complete the process by the end of the current European Commission’s mandate,” Sandu said.

    The Commission's mandate, led by President Ursula von der Leyen, runs from December 2024 to December 2029.

    Read more RT Thousands march against pro-EU government in Moldova (VIDEO)

    EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said last month that Moldova’s accession by 2028 depends on the pace of the country's reforms and unanimous support from the bloc’s 27 members.

    Sandu’s policies have sparked mounting criticism at home. This month, thousands of protesters rallied in the capital Chisinau over the country’s economic direction and her government’s treatment of opposition voices.

    The demonstration was led by the Party of Socialists and its leader, former President Igor Dodon, and was billed as the start of their parliamentary election campaign ahead of a vote expected in September. Sandu has said the upcoming elections will be decisive for Moldova’s EU ambitions.

    The Socialists, who have refused to recognize Sandu’s re-election, accused her government last month of “an unprecedented act of spiritual terror” after a senior Moldovan Orthodox Church bishop was barred from traveling to Jerusalem for Easter.

    Read more Yevgenia Gutsul escorted by police after a court hearing in Chisinau, March 28, 2025. Shameless: How an ‘EU aspirant’ jails and silences opponents

    The Sandu administration has also been embroiled in a longstanding political standoff with the autonomous region of Gagauzia. Her government reportedly sees it not just as an ideological outlier, but as a strategic challenge.

    The region's governor, Yevgenia Gutsul, a fierce critic of Sandu, was arrested in April amid an investigation into alleged irregularities in her 2023 campaign. Gutsul accused Chisinau of targeting Gagauzia in retaliation for its support of opposition figures, including herself.

    The opposition described Gutsul’s arrest as “purely political persecution.”

    Sandu had claimed she was fighting against “pro-Russian” actors within the country when she launched a crackdown on opposition parties and media outlets, branding them as criminals.

  2. Site: non veni pacem
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Mark Docherty

    by Will Jones

    Not content with the new Snow White bombing in March, Disney decided to release it again in the US last week, only for it to bomb even worse than the first time and take just $252 per screen. The Telegraph‘s Ed Power has more.

    Hi-ho, it’s back to the cinema for Disney’s flop live-action Snow White. Having originally crashed and burned in March, the movie misfired all over again after the House of Mouse re-released it in the US last week. Talk about putting the ‘grim’ in Grimm Fairy Tale.

    Disney’s apparent calculation was that that the advent of summer blockbuster season could give this dead-on-arrival feature a new lease of life. You can sort of appreciate the logic: after all, May saw the ailing Marvel Cinematic Universe return from purgatory when Thunderbolts proved a surprise hit.

    Where a caped crusader can go, surely Snow White and her terrifying CGI dwarf friends could follow? Who, moreover, wouldn’t want to hear Gal Gadot ham her way through the dreadful ‘All Is Fair’ one last time? A sort of evil twin of Frozen’s ‘Let It Go’, the tune has acquired a cult fanbase on social media, where people are intoxicated by its sheer ‘how did this get made?’ awfulness.

    Sadly for Disney, such logic did not long survive contact with reality. Incredibly, the second coming of Snow White was an even bigger disaster than the original run. Unleashed on an unsuspecting 1,000 cinemas across the US, the Rachel Zegler v Gal Gadot calamity brought in a pitiful $252 per screen. To date, the remake has cost Disney an estimated $115 million – much of the cost eaten up for by the bizarre decision to have Zegler act opposite CGI dwarfs straight from the Uncanny Valley.

    https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/12/disney-re-releases-snow-white-and-it-bombs-even-worse-than-the-first-time/

  3. Site: LifeNews
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Ashlynn Lemos

    The Fort Worth Pregnancy Center received a call from a woman desperate for help—she wanted to reverse the abortion pill she had just taken.

    Her name was Tania (changed for privacy), and just days earlier, she’d reached out to an abortion fund for help. That group—one of many operating in and out of Texas, often with taxpayer support from liberal cities—covered everything: her travel, her hotel, and the abortion pill itself.

    “She got there, and she took the first of the two pills,” said Jamie Bryant, development director at the Fort Worth Pregnancy Center. “They sent her home with instructions to take the other one after she got back home.

    However, everything changed for her on the trip home.

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    “On the plane ride, she started bleeding a little bit,” Bryant said. “I think it really just hit her what was happening, and she said she was just overcome by regret and sadness for her decision.”

    Bryant revealed that Tania had been her client just a year prior. “She actually ended up choosing abortion for that pregnancy,” Jamie recalled, “but I think it goes to show how even our clients that choose abortion feel like we are a safe place.”

    Tania didn’t even know that abortion pill reversal was possible. But she needed support, and she trusted the center enough to call.

    “I hadn’t spoken to her in almost a year,” Bryant said. “Obviously, our services and our care for her made an impression because when she was overcome with sadness and regret and wanted someone to talk to, she called us.”

    Within hours, Tania came in for an ultrasound. “We saw a very healthy, bouncy baby, about 10 ½ weeks old,” Jamie recalled.

    But that revealed a serious issue: the FDA only approves abortion pills for up to 10 weeks. Yet some abortion providers, especially online, ignore that limit and continue pushing the pills past the legal window. Tania’s doctor had given her the deadly pill regimen after the FDA’s time limit, putting her at even greater risk.

    “We told her about the Abortion Pill Reversal process, so she understood that that’s what we were doing with the sonogram,” Jamie highlighted. “I expected her to be very happy that we were seeing this healthy baby on the screen, but she looked upset.”

    “So, after the sonogram, I asked her about it, about what her emotions were,” Bryant continued, “and she told me that she had had a sonogram at the abortion clinic but they didn’t show her the screen and they told her there was nothing to see. So that made her angry when she saw our sonogram, which of course revealed a totally different story.”

    She quickly received a progesterone treatment, which counteracts the first abortion pill, saving her precious preborn child.

    “[Tania] is just very grateful for the center, for the resources, for the hope we gave her when she was just hopeless after landing on that plane flight,” Bryant said.

    “We serve a God of second chances. It’s never too late for redemption. God can take your biggest mistakes and use them for his purposes.”

    Praise God—Tania’s son, Michael, is now a healthy, thriving two-year-old! Her story is a powerful reminder of the real dangers women face from the underground abortion travel industry. That’s why it’s so critical that women in unexpected pregnancies are met with compassion, resources, and support—not rushed into trauma by dangerous pills.

    The reality is: Texas women are still seeking abortions, and liberal city councils have helped them do it. This is why Texas Right to Life is fighting, alongside your Pro-Life lawmakers, to pass new laws that will protect both women and their babies.

    The Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act (HB 5510 & SB 2880) will stop activists from trafficking these deadly drugs into our state by allowing ordinary citizens to sue companies and organizations that work to kill preborn babies. The Woman and Child Protection Act (HB 1806 & SB 33) would block Texas cities from this horrendous action of giving tax money to abortion assistance organizations.

    By sending a quick prewritten message to officials, you can help women like Tania be saved from the heartbreak and trauma of the abortion pill, and babies like Michael from being killed!

    Help pass Pro-Life bills! Contact lawmakers here:

    Dear Representatives,

    I thank you for passing the Stop Tax-Funded Abortion Travel Act (SB 33/HB 1806) and kindly urge you to prioritize and pass the Woman and Child Protection Act (HB 5510/SB 2880). Right now, there are still 30,000 preborn Texans killed each year due to abortion pills entering Texas and out-of-state abortion travel. The Woman and Child Protection Act must be passed immediately to give Texas new tools to stop abortion pill traffickers from mailing these lethal drugs into our state. We know every successful endangers the mother’s health while ending her baby’s life. We must not stand for this in Texas.

    Please stand for Life and protect mothers and babies from abortion by passing these bills immediately.

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    LifeNews Note: Ashlynn Lemos is the communications intern for Texas Right to Life.

    The post Woman Gets Free Abortion Pill, Then Changes Her Mind and Saves Her Baby appeared first on LifeNews.com.

  4. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    Bitcoin Now Deflationary Due To Strategy's BTC Purchases

    Authored by Vince Quill via CoinTelegraph.com,

    Strategy, a Bitcoin treasury company, is accumulating Bitcoin at a faster rate than total miner output, giving the supply-capped asset a -2.33% annual deflation rate, according to CryptoQuant CEO and market analyst Ki Young Ju.

    “Their 555,000 BTC is illiquid with no plans to sell,” the analyst wrote in a May 10 X post.

    “Strategy's holdings alone mean a -2.23% annual deflation rate — likely higher with other stable institutional holders,” Ju continued.

    Michael Saylor, the co-founder of Strategy, is an outspoken Bitcoin advocate who evangelizes the scarce digital currency to potential investors and has inspired many other companies to adopt a Bitcoin treasury plan.

    The total BTC supply is shrinking due to Strategy accumulating Bitcoin. Source: Ki Young Ju

    Additionally, Strategy acts as a bridge between Bitcoin and traditional financial (TradFi) markets by funneling funds from TradFi investors into Bitcoin through selling corporate debt and equity, which the company uses to finance more BTC purchases. According to Michael Saylor, over 13,000 institutions hold Strategy stock directly in their portfolios.

    Bitcoin investors continue to watch the company and its effect on Bitcoin market dynamics. Strategy leads the charge toward institutional adoption of Bitcoin, further restricting the supply of available coins and raising BTC prices, while dampening volatility.

    Strategy and corporate institutions change the Bitcoin market dynamic

    Adam Livingston, author of "The Bitcoin Age and The Great Harvest," recently said that Strategy is synthetically halving Bitcoin by outpacing miner supply through high demand.

    According to the author, the current collective daily miner output is approximately 450 BTC, while Strategy accumulates an average of 2,087 BTC per day, over four times the daily miner production.

    Miner reserves are dwindling and are in a long-term decline. Source: CryptoQuant

    Other institutions, including hedge funds, pension funds, asset managers, and tech companies, continue buying BTC as a portfolio diversifier or a treasury asset to hedge against fiat currency inflation.

    ETF inflows have also helped to stabilize Bitcoin's price by injecting fresh capital from traditional financial markets, smoothing out the volatility of Bitcoin and making downturns less severe.

    However, the most august institutional players — sovereign wealth funds — will not ramp up Bitcoin purchases until clear cryptocurrency regulations are established in the United States, according to SkyBridge founder Anthony Scaramucci.

    Once a comprehensive regulatory framework emerges in the US, it will trigger large blocks of Bitcoin purchases by sovereign wealth funds, increasing Bitcoin's price, Scaramucci added.

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 17:00
  5. Site: RT - News
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: RT

    Companies are struggling to break even and facing difficulties replacing equipment due to falling oil prices and tariffs, according to the outlet

    The US oil industry is growing increasingly disenchanted with President Donald Trump’s policies, according to Bloomberg. Falling crude prices and tariffs are making the situation untenable for producers, especially smaller ones, the media outlet has reported.

    During his campaign, Trump adopted “drill, baby, drill” as one of his signature slogans, promising to revitalize the industry, which he claimed was being strangled by former President Joe Biden’s environmental policies.

    While the US oil industry strongly supported Trump’s candidacy, “some executives are now feeling shortchanged” as crude prices have slid by 20% since he assumed office in January. West Texas Intermediate tumbled to as low as $55 per barrel last month.

    The downtrend in oil prices is helping the US president make good on his campaign pledge to lower inflation, but this is coming at a cost for domestic oil producers, according to the outlet.

    While industry giants such as Exxon Mobil and Chevron are more resilient to low oil prices, smaller independent producers are already feeling the impact. This is evidenced by a combined $1.8 billion in spending cuts announced by such firms over the past several weeks, according to Bloomberg.

    Read more US and Ukraine sign minerals deal

    The news outlet quoted Andy Hendricks, the CEO of Patterson-UTI Energy Inc. as saying that “$50 oil and ‘drill, baby, drill’” are “incompatible.” 

    The multi-front tariff war that Trump has unleashed against much of the world is also hurting American oil producers, since much of the equipment they use is imported from China, Korea, Brazil, and Mexico. This means that routine repairs have now become a “source of anxiety” for the industry, the article claimed.

    The media outlet quoted Kirk Edwards, former chairman of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association, expressing incredulity over why the US oil and gas industry is “being picked on as a scapegoat in this whole tariff plan.” 

    Bloomberg, citing company officials, reported that executives representing a number of private and independent oil companies have met in recent weeks with Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin and congressional representatives to convey their grievances.

    Several executives interviewed by Bloomberg reportedly said they want Trump to establish a price floor for oil by persuading OPEC leaders to cut production during his Middle East visit, as well as to provide tariff exemptions for oil field equipment. The president is scheduled to visit Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates from May 13 to May 16.

  6. Site: The Orthosphere
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Bonald

    Most people seem to be amazed–excited or terrified–by AI, convinced it’s going to “change everything”, make the professional class obsolete, allow demons to control our minds, whatever. I just don’t see it. What I’ve seen does not impress me at all. Being too disgusted with the software to really learn about it, I had to admit that my skepticism might just reflect my ignorance, so I kept silent for a long time (until AI ascii output started appearing here on the Orthosphere), but I’ve been encouraged to find that I’m not quite alone. Please enjoy with me these wonderful quotes from Bruce Charlton’s blog (written by BC and his commenters):

    “At enormous cost of electricity and manpower, people are being given something worse than a 1998 search engine. And yet we’re supposed to believe that we’re now more advanced and smarter than ever.”

    Since Google’s 2K search engine was far superior to any so-called AI; then why are people in 2025 so awed and submissive about AI?

    “It strikes me that the truly colossal degradation of search engines over the past 15 years – to the current point of near uselessness – may have been part of a strategy preparing for the top-down imposition of current “AI”.”

    Incredible quantities of sheer nonsense are being generated and debated with apparent seriousness on this theme by people who will – apparently – think, speak or write anything their Masters require of them; and by those gullible enough to treat such outputs as valid. I means the stuff about AI taking-over, AI becoming sentient or self-aware, AI having moral rights…One can only shake the head incredulously when such drivel is taken with seriousness. It is not even wrong, because such conversations do not rise to the level of being capable of truth and reality.”

    So-called AI is, of course, neither truly-artificial nor at all intelligent; being instead a variety of computerized systems for stealing-from, copying, combining and averaging, and being-trained on data-inputs provided by human beings. AI is Industrial Scale Plagiarism that has been funded, designed, propagandized, coercively implemented, and controlled by the global totalitarian Establishment.” 

    The intentional psychological and spiritual harm of current “AI” is located in the deceptive sleight of hand that pretends “intelligence” and creativity when dishonest plagiarism is done by computers. Because these machines are operated by mega-corporations that stand above-the-law and control the mass media and “science” in a closed-loop; they are enabled to steal brazenly, indeed with vast self-congratulation; larded with repeated assertions of their own brilliance and wisdom. Such behaviour would potentially lead to legal action and heavy fines if it was proved against ordinary human beings.”

  7. Site: ChurchPOP
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: The Editors

    The apparition of an angel and Our Lady to three poor children in Fatima, Portugal, in the early 20th century is one of the most famous miracles in the Catholic world.

    The children received many messages, mostly calling for personal conversion and prayer, as well as the words of five new prayers.

    The first prayer is one many Catholics are likely already familiar with, but the other four are not as well-known.

    Here are the five prayers given to the children at Fatima:

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    1) The Fatima Prayer/Decade Prayer

    “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.”

    Mary told the children that people should add this prayer to the end of each decade of the Rosary.

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    2) The Pardon Prayer

    “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love Thee.”

    This prayer was given to the children by the angel who visited them in 1916, the year before Mary appeared to them.

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    3) The Angel’s Prayer

    “O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.”

    This is another prayer the angel gave them. There was a Eucharistic host and chalice suspended in the air, and the angel led them in kneeling before it and praying this prayer.

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    4) The Eucharistic Prayer

    “Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament.”

    When Mary appeared to the children for the first time on May 13, 1917, she said, “You will have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort.” According to Lucia, one of the children, a bright light shone all around them, and without thinking about it, they all started reciting this prayer.

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    5) The Sacrifice Prayer

    “O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners [that I do this].”

    Mary gave the children this prayer, as well as the Fatima Prayer/Decade Prayer, on June 13, 1917. The prayer is meant to be recited when offering up suffering to God.

    Our Lady of Fatima, please pray for us and the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV!

  8. Site: ChurchPOP
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: The Editors

    The apparition of an angel and Our Lady to three poor children in Fatima, Portugal, in the early 20th century is one of the most famous miracles in the Catholic world.

    The children received many messages, mostly calling for personal conversion and prayer, as well as the words of five new prayers.

    The first prayer is one many Catholics are likely already familiar with, but the other four are not as well-known.

    Here are the five prayers given to the children at Fatima:

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    1) The Fatima Prayer/Decade Prayer

    “O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, lead all souls to Heaven, especially those most in need of Thy mercy. Amen.”

    Mary told the children that people should add this prayer to the end of each decade of the Rosary.

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    2) The Pardon Prayer

    “My God, I believe, I adore, I hope, and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those that do not believe, do not adore, do not hope, and do not love Thee.”

    This prayer was given to the children by the angel who visited them in 1916, the year before Mary appeared to them.

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    3) The Angel’s Prayer

    “O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the most precious Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ present in all the tabernacles of the world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferences by which He is offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners.”

    This is another prayer the angel gave them. There was a Eucharistic host and chalice suspended in the air, and the angel led them in kneeling before it and praying this prayer.

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    4) The Eucharistic Prayer

    “Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee! My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament.”

    When Mary appeared to the children for the first time on May 13, 1917, she said, “You will have much to suffer, but the grace of God will be your comfort.” According to Lucia, one of the children, a bright light shone all around them, and without thinking about it, they all started reciting this prayer.

    the fatima prayersCaroline Perkins, ChurchPOP

    5) The Sacrifice Prayer

    “O Jesus, it is for the love of Thee, in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and for the conversion of poor sinners [that I do this].”

    Mary gave the children this prayer, as well as the Fatima Prayer/Decade Prayer, on June 13, 1917. The prayer is meant to be recited when offering up suffering to God.

    Our Lady of Fatima, please pray for us and the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV!

  9. Site: LifeNews
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: HHS Press Office

    Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) initiated a compliance review of a hospital to investigate the hospital’s compliance with Federal law that safeguards conscience rights in health care – a Federal conscience protection statute known as the Church Amendments.

    OCR opened the review based on information that ultrasound technicians employed by the hospital allegedly faced potential termination because they have religious objections to conducting ultrasounds in abortion procedures.

    OCR facilitates and coordinates the Department’s enforcement of the Federal health care conscience protection statutes and religious nondiscrimination statutes. The Federal health care conscience protection statutes protect individuals, health care entities, and providers from discrimination in health care by government or government-funded entities because of the exercise of religious beliefs or moral conviction.

    The investigation will examine whether the hospital, which is part of a larger health care system, accommodates its health care personnel who decline to perform or assist in the performance of abortion procedures contrary to their religious beliefs or moral convictions.

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    “The Department is committed to enforcement of our nation’s laws that safeguard the fundamental rights of conscience and religious exercise,” said Anthony Archeval, Acting OCR Director. “Health care professionals should not be coerced into, fired for, or driven out of the profession for declining to perform procedures that Federal law says they do not have to perform based on their religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

    This matter is the second investigation of an entity’s compliance with laws protecting the exercise of conscience that OCR has initiated during President Trump’s second term. Today’s announcement is part of a larger effort to strengthen enforcement of laws protecting conscience and religious exercise.

    OCR enforces Federal protections against discrimination based on conscience and religion in specific programs funded by HHS Federal financial assistance. For more information visit, https://www.hhs.gov/conscience/your-protections-against-discrimination-based-on-conscience-and-religion/index.html.

    If you believe that your or another person’s conscience, civil rights, or health information privacy rights have been violated, you can file a complaint with OCR at https://www.hhs.gov/ocr/complaints/index.html.

    The post Trump Admin Will Protect Health Care Workers Forced to Participate in Abortions appeared first on LifeNews.com.

  10. Site: RT - News
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: RT

    The US president has called the potential negotiations in Istanbul a “very important” event

    US President Donald Trump has said he expects a “good result” from possible direct talks between Moscow and Kiev, suggesting he may participate himself. 

    A resumption of direct negotiations between the two sides, which was proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, could take place in Istanbul, Türkiye on May 15.

    Speaking at a press conference on Monday, the US president called the potential talks a “very important” event.

    “I think you may have a good result at the Thursday meeting in Türkiye between Russia and Ukraine. I believe the two leaders are going to be there. I was thinking about flying over. I don’t know where I’m going to be on Thursday, I’ve got so many meetings, but I was thinking about actually flying over there,” Trump said.

    Trump’s suggestion was welcomed by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, who described it as the “right idea” and reiterated his claim that he was ready to meet Putin in person. Thus far, Moscow has remained silent on the prospect of the Russian leader traveling to Türkiye for negotiations.

    In proposing a return to direct negotiations, the Russian president reiterated Moscow’s commitment to resolving the crisis. The settlement process must start with talks, Putin stressed, and the negotiations could ultimately lead to “some kind of new truce and a new ceasefire.”

    Read more RT Trump hopeful for Russia-Ukraine talks

    “We are set on serious negotiations with Ukraine. Their aim is to eliminate the root causes of the conflict and to achieve a long-term lasting peace for a historical perspective,” the president said.

    The offer has met a mixed reaction from Kiev and its backers, who continue to insist on their demand that any negotiations must be preceded by the establishment of at least a 30-day truce. However, Putin’s proposal was backed by Trump, who urged Kiev to “immediately” accept it. Following Trump’s call, Kiev seemingly shifted its position, and Zelensky proclaimed his readiness to participate in the meeting, while reiterating the truce demand.

    Türkiye has welcomed the initiative and expressed a readiness to host the talks. However, the Turkish presidency sent a somewhat ambiguous message on the matter on Monday, simultaneously stating that it was an opportunity that should not be missed but also that a ceasefire would have created the “necessary environment” for the negotiations.

  11. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    MAHA: Fighting The Biomedical War On The American Public

    Authored by James Howard Kunstler,

    MAHA Hugger Mugger

    "Those who perpetrated the greatest ruse in American presidential history by staging the Biden presidency will never tell us what their ultimate agenda was

    - Victor Davis Hanson

    One baseline truth in current American life is that our bodily well-being gets worse as the so-called health care industry gets ever-larger — it is now 17.6-percent of the economy (GDP). This is clearly the basis of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) campaign that attached itself to the Trump 2.0 program. 

    You hear almost no arguments against MAHA itself, even from the Party of Hustles and Hoaxes, but plenty of calumny and objurgation against MAHA’s chief advocate, Robert Kennedy, Jr.

    Mr. Trump’s initial nominee for Surgeon General, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat was pulled last week just before her scheduled Senate confirmation hearing. Her credentials looked a bit sketchy — med school on the tiny Caribbean island of St. Maarten (say, what. . . ?) and other irregularities — which she confabulated about anyway. 

    Plus, she was a Covid vaccine cheerleader and an avid advocate of the censorship campaign to slam down debate over it.

    Which leads directly to a glaring quandary in President Trump’s current order-of-business: he has avoided engagement with the whole Covid fiasco that unspooled in the last year of his first term

    Now, it is the opinion of this blog that Mr. Trump was played on Covid by blob-marshaled “experts” Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, who led the White House Covid “team,” and then snookered the president into Operation Warp Speed, appealing to his vanity to play the superhero. You can also surmise that the Covid operation was hatched to run Mr. Trump out of office by enabling epic election fraud, making a chump of him.

    Other aspects of the Covid hairball are now finally getting unraveled, such as the lab origin issue and Dr. Fauci’s nefarious and vast operations to fund bioweapons. But the awful subject of the Covid mRNA vaccines, and all the monkey business around their development and deployment, remains taboo, even as Trump 2.0 sets records in smashing bureaucratic idols and radically shifting all sorts of policy — for instance, today’s monumental move to lower drug costs by 30 to 80 percent, using the Most Favored Nation trade policy device, which ties U.S. drug prices to the lowest prices paid by other high-income countries (e.g., Canada, Japan, or European nations) for the same medications.

    But the Covid vaccine shots loom over the land like an ominous miasma that no one wants to talk about. The evidence has mounted steadily that the shots were ineffective and deeply harmful to many of the people who took them, especially those who got multiple boosters. The result, apparently, is a shocking rise in rare and aggressive cancers, immune system dysfunction, damage to the heart and blood vessels, neurological disorders, and much more. The CDC under “Joe Biden” worked desperately to hide all that, but it came out, anyway, because it was too big to hide.

    81-percent of the US population submitted to the Covid vaccine shots. So, you can suppose that all that would be an extremely touchy matter. To admit all that scary information to the public arena would likely set off a politically dangerous fury. You can see why Mr. Trump would avoid going near it in the early going of his second term. But eventually he must come to terms with it.

    Likewise, sooner or later, Bobby Kennedy, Jr., will have to take some kind of stand on the Covid vaccines, namely stopping the shots altogether. Whatever you think of the childhood vaccine schedule — a red-hot issue these days — it seems quite insane that the Covid mRNA vaccine is still included on it. It is still officially recommended by the CDC. Among the “much more” effects of the shots is damage to human fertility. You must ask: by giving these shots to kids as young as six-months, are we setting up a nation that won’t be able to have children? Pretty spooky.

    Casey Means, the new nominee for US Surgeon General

    So, the new nominee for Surgeon General is one Casey Means of the brother / sister team, Calley and Casey Means, known primarily as food safety advocate sidekicks to Bobby Kennedy. The Meanses were already under some suspicion for rising too rapidly into prominence from out of nowhere since the summer of 2024 when Mr. Kennedy began to swing over to the Trump campaign. They were suspected and criticized as the shills for some sort of sinister alliance between Silicon Valley, Big Pharma, and the US intel blob. The Meanses have adroitly avoided taking a position on the Covid vaccines. Hmmmm. . . . That’s the chatter, anyway — whether there’s any truth to it, we will have to stand-by to discover.

    You’d have to ask yourself whether Mr. Kennedy would ally himself with people of supposedly sketchy character. Is he being used or played? Or maybe, it’s just not so. The nomination of Casey Means sent out shock-waves through MAGA and MAHA. Her credentials seemed a little sketchy like Janette Nesheiwat’s before her. Ms. Means dropped out of her five-year medical residency in Oregon a few months before completing it, apparently due to disillusionment with conventional medicine. She does not have an active medical license, supposedly required to serve as Surgeon General.

    Instead, she transitioned into what is loosely called functional medicine, which rejects the oppressive “standards of practice” dictated by insurance companies and reliance on pharma products to alleviate symptoms rather than treat the causes of disease. Ms. Means also became a medical entrepreneur, starting Levels, a glucose-monitoring tech company, and is an Instagram “wellness influencer” with 750,000 followers. Given the gross racketeering aspects of conventional medicine and its failure to deal with the shocking rise in chronic disease, you might argue that Ms. Means made the right career moves, weird as they might seem superficially.

    It’s pretty much a miracle that RFK, Jr., managed to land safely as Secretary of HHS and that he was able to enlist “medical freedom” advocates Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes for Health and Marty Makary to run the Federal Drug Administration. This represents a stupendous turnaround in government policy. It’s also plausible that this new public health team has been preoccupied with personnel and administrative re-org in the first months of Trump 2.0. They’ve begun to nibble around the edges of the national health crisis, such as banning toxic food coloring.

    They have yet to face the big, nasty legal questions such as revoking Pharma’s liability shield against lawsuits for its defective products, ending TV advertising of Pharma products — which is just an extortion racket for managing cable news content to protect Pharma — fully confronting the autism calamity and its connection to childhood vaccines, and, of course, pulling the Covid shots.

    There is also chatter that RFK, Jr., is “managed” by hidden persons or forces. One not-so-hidden character in that psychodrama is Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA). Sen. Cassidy, a medical doctor, chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee that ran Mr. Kennedy over-the-coals in his confirmation hearing. Political pressure caused Sen. Cassidy to cave and vote “yes” for RFK,Jr., then. Louisiana has since changed its election rules so that Democrats can no longer vote in the GOP primary, and Cassidy is vulnerable. His base is restless. He voted to impeach Mr. Trump in January 2021 over the Capitol J-6 riot.

    So, the chatter says that Mr. Kennedy made a deal with Sen. Cassidy to avoid taking certain actions — like, anything that might hurt Pharma and its profit-stream — or else Mr. Kennedy would be dragged back in front of the HELP Committee and raked over the coals again. If that were to happen, I suspect Mr. Kennedy would handle himself very capably in any public hearing. He has always been in command of the facts.

    As head of HHS, he has had access to a deep trove of information that he had no access to previously. He must know by now exactly what sort of mischief has been perpetrated in US public health over the decades and will not be shy about disclosing it publicly. 

    You should also not be surprised if Mr. Kennedy begins issuing criminal referrals before much longer.

    As for Casey Means. . . give her a chance to demonstrate that she is on the right side of MAHA and willing to fight in what has become a biomedical war on the American public.

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 16:20
  12. Site: AsiaNews.it
    1 week 2 days ago
    The release is expected at 6.30 pm local time, the result of negotiations between the extremist movement and the US administration, rekindling the hope of the families of the other hostages. But Netanyahu is adamant in his opposition to any negotiations with Hamas. Meanwhile, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is getting worse. In Jerusalem, a second peace summit is held with the participation of Arab and Israeli peace movements.
  13. Site: Novus Motus Liturgicus
    1 week 2 days ago
    The ancient Romans had a saying, “Nomen est omen – a name is a sign”, i.e., a presage about the person who bears it. Of course, this is not always or in all ways true; during my very sleepy teenage years, my mother used to joke that Gregory, which derives from the Greek word for “watchful”, was about as inappropriate a name as they come. But it is a tradition solidly grounded in the Sacred Gregory DiPippohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13295638279418781125noreply@blogger.com0
  14. Site: LifeNews
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Steven Ertelt

    The new Planned Parenthood annual report comes at a time when pro-life Americans are fighting harder than ever before to defund America’s biggest abortion business.

    Knowing that Planned Parenthood killed over 402,000 babies in abortions is plenty of incentive for pro-life Americans to call an email Congress. But now they have even more of a reason to lobby for defunding.

    The new report, where Planned Parenthood reports its own figures from its abortion centers nationwide, shows the abortion giant receiving more taxpayer dollars than ever before.

    Planned Parenthood’s annual report just released shows a new record high for both lives ended – more than 402,000 abortions – and taxpayer funding, close to $800 million or well over $2 million a day.

    The pro-life group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America bemoaned the numbers.

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    “This report heightens the urgency to defund Big Abortion and stop forcing taxpayers to fund an industry that destroys unborn lives and preys on women and girls,” SBA told LifeNews.

    “For yet another year, pregnant women seeking help at Planned Parenthood are sold an abortion 97% of the time, while prenatal services, miscarriage care and adoption referrals make up a minuscule minority of the options they offer. Meanwhile their priorities include their assault on parental rightstransgender ‘treatments’ and political spending to defeat Republicans,” it said.

    “As community health centers outnumber Planned Parenthood locations 15 to one nationwide and offer far more comprehensive care, including for Medicaid patients, Americans have real choices and much better options. We commend our House Republican allies for working hard on a budget reconciliation process that finally gets taxpayers out of the abortion business and we encourage them to persevere. Now more than ever, we can hardly wait to see the ‘one big beautiful bill’ advance in Congress.”

    Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report, released today, shows the abortion business killed a record 402,230 babies in abortions in the past year, while generating over $2 billion in revenue.

    That’s a 2.42% increase in the number of babies Planned Parenthood killed in 2023-2024 than it did the prior year, when it killed 392,715 babies in abortions.

    That’s over 1,102 babies killed in abortions every single day of the year or 46 dead babies every single hour. That’s in insane figure for Planned Parenthood, a company that claims its main focus is merely women’s health care. It’s a horrific number that is almost difficult to comprehend and far surpasses any genocide in human history.

    The figure is also higher than its previous annual report from two years ago, where it indicated it killed 374,155 babies in abortions. In 2019 the abortion giant killed 354,871 babies in abortions, showing that Planned Parenthood continues to kill more and more babies even as it does less and less legitimate health care.

    The post Planned Parenthood Now Gets $800 Million a Year in Tax Dollars appeared first on LifeNews.com.

  15. Site: Catholic Conclave
    1 week 2 days ago
    Francis has attempted to restore the shaky finances of the Holy See, but the work is unfinished due to the wall of opposition from the Curia and some hesitationsIn 2013, Benedict XVI resigned from the role of vicar of Christ on Earth but also from that of head of a Vatican State in the midst of a financial storm (accused by Moneyval, the European authority against economic crimes, of not doing Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
  16. Site: The Orthosphere
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Bonald

    One of the great advantages of the existence of the Papal States was that, when popes had the responsibility of temporal administration, we did not hear from them any utopian nonsense about “social justice”. There is a widespread belief, generally accepted by both factions of Catholics, that the conquest of the Papal States was actually a blessing in disguise, that by freeing the Holy See from the distractions of temporal government and Italian politics, the pope was better able to witness to the Faith on a global scale. Thus, the Risorgimento was followed by the great teaching pontificate of Leo XIII, who gave us Rerum Novarum, Immortale Dei, and Aeterni Patris. John Paul II was another great teaching pontiff very much in the same mode, addressing the great social and philosophical questions of the day. Both popes did a very good job of this, perhaps the best that could have been done, but it is worth asking whether in doing so they fell into another form of the same distraction as their predecessors.

    Let us grant, for the sake of argument, that new things–technology, social relations, developments in science, history, and philosophy–pose unprecedented challenges to Christian arrangements of life and the Christian worldview. (If there are no unprecedented challenges, just the same old human sinfulness and stupidity, then great teaching popes are certainly not necessary.) Just as the pope is not the best qualified to govern the city of Rome, the pope cannot be the one to answer these challenges. In a way he is the least able to grapple with them, because there is one necessary thing that everyone else can do that he cannot, and that is to make mistakes. Obviously, if we are faced with unprecedented problems, what is needed is a period of trial and error, of following many false leads and dead ends and gaining experience. Workable models of sustainable Christian communities and just, cooperative relations between classes can only emerge from small-scale “Benedict Option” experiments. On faith-and-reason matters, scientists, philosophers, and theologians must explore many lines of thought, most of which will be found unsatisfactory even if begun with orthodox intent. The pope’s job is to inspire and support, and to correct when necessary, not to lead. Arguably popes have already errored in giving too specific advice (such as in promoting Thomism to the exclusion of the rest of the Church’s intellectual resources). Regardless, Leo XIII and his successors have already given us what guidance we need from above. Any great renewal of Christian life, any great advance of Christian thought or art must now originate from below.

  17. Site: ChurchPOP
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Jacqueline Burkepile

    Want to send a video message to the newly elected Pope Leo XIV?

    The parish software development company eCatholic recently launched a campaign inviting people to send video messages to the newly elected Pope Leo XIV. 

    “We invite you to record a short video message of congratulations to our new shepherd,” the website invitation says. “Whether you're part of a parish, school, or ministry, your voice is part of the church's story, and this is your chance to share a prayer or maybe a word of encouragement to our new Holy Father.”

    eCatholic Marketing Director Michael Josephs spoke with ChurchPOP about this initiative. He explained why they decided to do this, the overwhelming response they have received, and how eCatholic plans to deliver the messages to the Holy Father.

    “We wanted to do something meaningful—and a little creative—to mark the moment and celebrate with the universal Church,” Josephs said. “Pope Leo XIV’s election is a beautiful reminder that the Church is alive and growing in every corner of the world.”

    Josephs said the initiative is “even more personal,” since Pope Leo XIV is from the United States.

    “There is a sense of connection and pride that makes submitting a message feel even more personal,” he explained. “While the Church is universal, there’s something powerful about seeing the fruits of centuries of missionary work in America now reflected in the election of a pope from the U.S.”

    The marketing director also explained how eCatholic plans to deliver the messages to the Holy Father.

    He said they will create a “video montage” of the submissions and “share it with key Catholic media outlets and contacts in Rome.”

    “We hope that it makes its way to Pope Leo XIV—or at the very least, that he sees the love and support pouring in from the faithful around the world,” Josephs adds. “Whether or not we get a direct response, we trust that these messages will be a source of encouragement as he begins his pontificate.”

    “If you haven't submitted a message yet, there’s still time! We're keeping submissions open a little while longer as we work behind the scenes to share these with the Holy Father,” Josephs said. 

    “Whether it’s a quick prayer, a word of encouragement, or a heartfelt blessing, we invite Catholics everywhere to be part of this moment in Church history. It’s not every day we welcome a new pope, so let’s flood him with the love, support, and encouragement he deserves.” 

    Click here to send your video message to Pope Leo XIV.

  18. Site: ChurchPOP
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Jacqueline Burkepile

    Want to send a video message to the newly elected Pope Leo XIV?

    The parish software development company eCatholic recently launched a campaign inviting people to send video messages to the newly elected Pope Leo XIV. 

    “We invite you to record a short video message of congratulations to our new shepherd,” the website invitation says. “Whether you're part of a parish, school, or ministry, your voice is part of the church's story, and this is your chance to share a prayer or maybe a word of encouragement to our new Holy Father.”

    eCatholic Marketing Director Michael Josephs spoke with ChurchPOP about this initiative. He explained why they decided to do this, the overwhelming response they have received, and how eCatholic plans to deliver the messages to the Holy Father.

    “We wanted to do something meaningful—and a little creative—to mark the moment and celebrate with the universal Church,” Josephs said. “Pope Leo XIV’s election is a beautiful reminder that the Church is alive and growing in every corner of the world.”

    Josephs said the initiative is “even more personal,” since Pope Leo XIV is from the United States.

    “There is a sense of connection and pride that makes submitting a message feel even more personal,” he explained. “While the Church is universal, there’s something powerful about seeing the fruits of centuries of missionary work in America now reflected in the election of a pope from the U.S.”

    The marketing director also explained how eCatholic plans to deliver the messages to the Holy Father.

    He said they will create a “video montage” of the submissions and “share it with key Catholic media outlets and contacts in Rome.”

    “We hope that it makes its way to Pope Leo XIV—or at the very least, that he sees the love and support pouring in from the faithful around the world,” Josephs adds. “Whether or not we get a direct response, we trust that these messages will be a source of encouragement as he begins his pontificate.”

    “If you haven't submitted a message yet, there’s still time! We're keeping submissions open a little while longer as we work behind the scenes to share these with the Holy Father,” Josephs said. 

    “Whether it’s a quick prayer, a word of encouragement, or a heartfelt blessing, we invite Catholics everywhere to be part of this moment in Church history. It’s not every day we welcome a new pope, so let’s flood him with the love, support, and encouragement he deserves.” 

    Click here to send your video message to Pope Leo XIV.

  19. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    First Group Of White South Africans Depart For US Under Trump Admin's Refugee Plan

    Dozens of white South Africans departed their country for the United States on May 11 after being granted refugee status under the Trump administration’s new admission program.

    BREAKING: First white South African refugees fleeing persecution arrive in the U.S.

    What do you notice? pic.twitter.com/n0OChhe8Vj

    — TaraBull (@TaraBull808) May 12, 2025

    About 49 Afrikaners - a white ethnic minority in South Africa - boarded a chartered flight bound for the District of Columbia, which will then fly to Texas, South African Transport Department spokesperson Collen Msibi said.

    “One of the conditions of the permit was to ensure that they were vetted in case one of them has a criminal issue pending,” Msibi was quoted as saying by Reuters.

    Aldgra Fredly reports via The Epoch Times, that this marked the first group of Afrikaners relocated to the United States under a refugee admissions program initiated under President Donald Trump’s Feb. 7 executive order that allows the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees “escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination.”

    President Trump on giving refugee status to South Africans: "It's a genocide. White Farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated. And the media doesn't even talk about it. If it were the other way around, that would be the only story they talk about." pic.twitter.com/YMP2QhYgzt

    — TheBlaze (@theblaze) May 12, 2025

    That executive order was issued after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the Expropriation Act into law in January, allowing the expropriation or redistribution of certain unused land. The law aims to address racial disparities in land ownership that stemmed from South Africa’s former apartheid system.

    The nation’s government noted that special conditions must be met before expropriating land, including that it has had longtime informal occupants, is unused and owned purely for speculation, or was left abandoned.

    In his executive order, Trump stated that Ramaphosa’s government has imposed countless policies “designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.”

    South Africa’s government has rejected the claims and called Washington’s move to resettle South Africans as refugees “entirely politically motivated.”

    “We reiterate that allegations of discrimination are unfounded,” it stated

    “Moreover, even if there are allegations of discrimination, it is our view that these do not meet the threshold of persecution required under domestic and international refugee law.”

    However, the South African government said that it will not block departures of citizens who seek to leave the country, provided they comply with domestic laws.

    Speaking to reporters on May 9, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said the current situation facing Afrikaners in South Africa amounts to “race-based persecution.”

    “What was happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created,” Miller said. 

    “This is persecution based on a protected characteristic. In this case, race.”

    Trump announced in March that the United States would cut all federal funding to South Africa over its expropriation laws and pledged to resettle white South African farmers affected by the law.

    The White House stated in a summary of Trump’s executive order on Feb. 10 that the United States will stop aid and assistance if South Africa “continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent disfavored minority farmers.”

    The Epoch Times has reached out to the State Department for comment but did not receive a response by publication time.

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:40
  20. Site: southern orders
    1 week 2 days ago

    Will Leo wear the red papal hat??? Time will tell:

    Archbishop . George Gänswein, Apostolic Nuncio to Lithuania and former secretary to Pope Benedict XVI, shares his view. In declarations to Italian daily Corriere della Sera,*** Gänswein said:  

    "Leo XIV will create bridges like his predecessor. But in a different context and a different style than Francis. In the Church today there are great tensions, and outside there are frightening conflicts. I think doctrinal clarity is needed now. The confusion of these years must be overcome. And one of the tools to be used are the structures that are already present there. The institutions of the Church are neither a plague, nor a threat against the Pope. They are there to provide help to the pontiffs, who must get help. You cannot govern yourself by distrusting your own institutions." ...

    “Papa Prevost gives me great hope. I am convinced that he will make a positive impact within the Church and in the world. He is a peacemaker. Already the choice of name, in the tradition of St. Leo the Great and Leo III who crowned Charlemagne in the 800s, is very indicative. Name and dress made it clear that there will be continuity, not a totally new phase. His experience, ability to speak many languages, the fact that he was a missionary, but also worked in the Curia for two years, make him both a pastor and a governing pope. He does not come from one background but from many things together. And this will allow him to speak to everyone.” ...

    "Now a new phase is opening. I sense some widespread relief. The age of arbitrariness is over. We can start counting on a papacy that can guarantee stability and rely on existing structures, without overturning and upsetting them."

  21. Site: LifeNews
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Clare Ath

    America stands at a crossroads. Our nation faces rising abortion rates, widening gaps in maternal health care, and mounting economic pressures that threaten the well-being of families across the nation. Without bold action, these trends will erode women’s health, destabilize families, and undermine the prosperity of future generations.

    The More Opportunities for Moms to Succeed (MOMS) Act, introduced this week by Senator Katie Britt (R-Ala.), offers a compassionate, life-affirming solution to these challenges, empowering mothers and their children to thrive.

    Recent months have marked a significant shift in America’s landscape. Thirteen Planned Parenthood facilities have closed: four in Illinois, four in Michigan, two in Utah, as well as facilities in CaliforniaNew York, and Vermont. Just last week, the Boulder Abortion Clinic, operated for over 50 years by abortionist Warren Hern, who is responsible for ending the lives of over 42,000 preborn children, shuttered permanently. These closures are a triumph for the culture of life, signaling an opportunity for legislators to direct their focus toward supporting mothers facing unexpected pregnancies.

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    However, this is not the finish line; it is a call to action. Now is the time to provide robust, life-affirming resources, care, compassion, and practical support, so every woman can choose life with confidence and thrive.

    While we are making progress, millions of women who want to embrace life for their children still face daunting barriers. Financial insecurity, lack of health care access, and the absence of paid family leave create overwhelming challenges. The United States remains the only developed nation without a national paid family leave mandate, often forcing millions of new mothers to return to work mere weeks after giving birth.

    At the same time, maternal mortality rates remain stubbornly high, especially among black mothers, who are three to four times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their white peers. Health care deserts stretch across nearly 40% of American counties, leaving countless mothers without vital prenatal and postpartum care.

    These challenges are not hypothetical. They are the reality for millions of women across the nation, like “Tracey,” a military wife who faced an unexpected pregnancy and was suffering from hyperemesis, a severe form of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. Pregnant with her fifth child, overwhelmed, and frightened, Tracey wanted to choose life for her child but saw no way forward. It was only because of compassionate support and tangible resources from Human Coalition’s network of care that she found the help she needed to continue her pregnancy.

    Tracey’s story should not be a rare exception. It should be the American norm: a nation where no mother feels abandoned, and every child has a fighting chance.

    The MOMS Act recognizes these realities and responds with practical, life-affirming solutions. If we’re going to advance a culture of life in America, we need to implement commonsense policies. Policies that reverse our decline and empower the women in our country who are called to be mothers.

    Some of the major highlights in the MOMs Act include:

    • The establishment of Pregnancy.gov, a new federal clearinghouse designed to connect pregnant women to critical public and private resources right in their own communities. Expecting mothers deserve easy, transparent access to the help that already exists but is too often hidden behind bureaucracy or misinformation.
    • Strengthening adoption as a loving alternative, by creating a national list of licensed adoption agencies.
    • Empowering pregnancy resource centers by ensuring that they can access federal funding opportunities — while drawing a clear ethical line that grantees must not promote or carry out abortions.
    • Expand telecare initiatives in rural, frontier, and underserved areas, ensuring that no mother is left without access to basic prenatal and postnatal services.
    • Promote resources for paid family leave, offering mothers the time they need to bond with their newborns without sacrificing their financial stability.
    • Allow child support obligations to begin during pregnancy. This ensures that the financial responsibility of parenting is recognized from the earliest stages of life, offering greater security to mothers and the children they carry.

    The MOMS Act should be a bill that transcends the traditional pro-life, pro-abortion dichotomy, uniting Americans in a shared commitment to mothers and their children. That’s why abortion advocates who oppose this bill expose a glaring hypocrisy: they claim to champion women’s rights and health care equity but dismiss and vilify initiatives when they’re deemed to be pro-life measures.

    Passing the MOMS Act is more than a legislative act — it is a moral imperative. It is an investment in the next generation, an affirmation that every life is valuable, and a statement that America’s future is worth fighting for.

    Mothers like Tracey are looking for hope. They are looking for a nation that stands with them, offering the tools they need to choose life and to thrive. The MOMS Act answers that call, boldly and compassionately. It envisions an America where every child is welcomed, every mother is supported, and every family has the opportunity to flourish.

    LifeNews Note: Clare Ath currently serves as the senior policy analyst at Human Coalition, one of the largest pro-life organizations in the nation that operates a network of telecare and brick-and-mortar women’s care clinics across the country.

    The post Democrats Should Embrace This Pro-Life Bill to Help Moms and Babies appeared first on LifeNews.com.

  22. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    US Crypto Funds Smash Old Record Amid 4-Week Inflow Streak

    Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com,

    Cryptocurrency investment products continued receiving healthy inflows last week, attracting $882 million as global crypto funds approached all-time high asset levels.

    Global crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) recorded $6.3 billion of inflows in the past four weeks, accounting for 93% of total inflows year-to-date (YTD), according to data from European crypto investment firm CoinShares.

    Total YTD inflows now stand at $6.7 billion, closing in on the record $7.3 billion posted in early February, according to CoinShares’ head of research James Butterfill.

    Weekly crypto ETP inflows since late 2024. Source: CoinShares

    Amid strong investor demand, crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States reached a record $62.9 billion in cumulative net inflows since launch in January 2024, surpassing the previous high of $61.6 billion set in February, Butterfill noted in a May 12 fund flows update.

    Total AUM nears historic record of $173 billion

    The continued inflow streak has brought total assets under management (AUM) in global crypto funds to $169 billion, just 2.5% below the historic record of $173.3 billion seen in the last week of January, according to CoinShares data.

    However, the latest $882 million of inflows were a notable cooldown from $2 billion seen in the first week of May and $3.4 billion posted in the last week of April.

    Bitcoin dominated with $867 million in inflows in the past week, with YTD inflows reaching $6.6 billion and AUM rising to $146 billion.

    Crypto ETP flows by asset as of May 10, 2025 (in millions of US dollars). Source: CoinShares

    Inflows to Ether investment products were less significant, posting $1.5 million inflows, with AUM edging up to $12 billion.

    Sui was the biggest winner among altcoins, with Sui ETPs seeing $11.7 million of inflows last week.

    Solana was the only altcoin to see outflows last week, totaling $3.4 million and dragging month-to-date outflows to $2.9 million.

     

    BlackRock’s iShares outstrip total inflows

    According to CoinShares, crypto fund inflows were again highly concentrated in BlackRock’s iShares products, which saw $1 billion of inflows last week.

    Year-to-date, BlackRock has attracted $8.1 billion in inflows, significantly exceeding the industry’s total of $6.7 billion.

    Grayscale and Bitwise continued to see outflows, losing $168 million and $27 million respectively during the past week. Fidelity and ARK reversed previous negative trends, reporting inflows of $62 million and $46 million, respectively.

    Crypto ETP flows by issuer as of May 10, 2025 (in millions of US dollars). Source: CoinShares

    Bullish trend driven by rise in money supply, macro factors

    The ongoing bullish trend in the crypto ETP industry came amid a rally in the cryptocurrency markets, with Bitcoin reclaiming $100,000 for the first time since January on May 8.

    Amid the growing investor sentiment, the total crypto market capitalization surged to nearly $3.5 trillion, down 11% from the historic high of $3.9 trillion posted in mid-December 2024, according to data from CoinGecko.

    “We believe the sharp increase in both prices and inflows is driven by a combination of factors: a global rise in M2 money supply, stagflationary risks in the US and several US states approving Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset,” CoinShares’ Butterfill wrote.

    Bitcoin traded at $104,407 at the time of publication, slightly down from a historic high above $106,000 posted on Dec. 17, 2024.

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:20
  23. Site: RT - News
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: RT

    The US president accused the bloc of unfair trade practices, including barriers to American car exports and shifting pharmaceutical costs

    US President Donald Trump has intensified his criticism of the European Union, labeling it “nastier than China” regarding trade practices.

    In early April, Washington imposed a sweeping 20% tariff on all EU goods and a 25% tariff on all car imports and metals. While Trump later announced a 90-day reprieve on most trade duties, a baseline 10% tariff and the above-mentioned 25% tariff remain in force until an agreement is reached.

    “The European Union is in many ways nastier than China,” Trump stated during a press conference at the White House on Monday.

    “They treated us very unfairly. They sell us 13 million cars; we sell them none. They sell us their agricultural products; we sell them virtually none,” the president claimed, adding that Brussels has been “suing all our companies… Apple, Google, Meta.”

    The American leader predicted that the EU would “come down a lot,” since the US holds “all the cards.” 

    Read more US President Donald Trump. Trump to hit non-US films with 100% tariff

    Trump further stated that the bloc is also to blame, at least in part, for the excessively high prices that Americans have to pay for prescription drugs. According to the president, Brussels has been unfairly exerting “brutal” pressure on pharmaceutical companies to keep prices low in Europe, while refusing to shoulder the fair share of the firms’ research and development and other related costs.

    However, Washington is now set to “equalize” the situation, Trump promised, concluding that “Europe is gonna have to pay a little bit more…. And America is gonna pay a lot less.”

    Trump’s remarks came hours after Washington and Beijing agreed during negotiations in Geneva to scrap or suspend most of the new trade duties introduced since early April, pending further talks.

    As a result, overall US tariffs on Chinese goods will stand at 30% and Chinese tariffs on US goods will be 10%, starting May 14. The two nations will also set up a consultation mechanism to work out further trade policy steps.

    The EU, for its part, has made several attempts at negotiating trade and tariffs with the US, though none of them have so far yielded a breakthrough.

    Last Thursday, the European Commission presented a list of countermeasures which could affect €95 billion worth of US goods should negotiations fail.

    Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro warned Brussels that it would be “making a grave mistake” if it went through with the threat, which he described as counterproductive to the talks.

  24. Site: southern orders
    1 week 2 days ago

     The heterodox leaning left is freaking out over the discontinuity between Leo and Francis:


     

  25. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 2 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    Trump Rallies GOP To Back 'Big, Beautiful Bill' As House Releases 389-Page Text

    President Donald Trump on Monday called on congressional Republicans to unify behind what he hailed as his "ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL," a sweeping legislative package that merges tax cuts, immigration reforms, and a raft of domestic priorities into a single reconciliation measure.

    "This week the Republicans are meeting in the Tax, Energy, and Agriculture Committees on major pieces of 'THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,'" Mr. Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform, urging lawmakers to stand behind House committee chairs Jason Smith of Ways and Means, Brett Guthrie of Energy and Commerce, and Glenn "GT" Thompson of Agriculture. "We must WIN! But now, with the tremendous Drug and Pharmaceutical Cuts, plus massive incoming Tariff Money, our 'GREAT, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL' just got much BIGGER and BETTER. The Golden Age of America will soon be upon us."

    The comments, made just before Mr. Trump’s planned trip to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, came as his administration unveiled an executive action to lower pharmaceutical drug prices by up to 90% under a new "Most Favored Nations" pricing policy. He also lashed out at Democrats, accusing them of trying to "DESTROY our Country" by offering amendments to the bill prior to his press conference.

    "When I return from the Middle East, where great things will happen for America, we will work together on any and all outstanding issues," Mr. Trump added. "But there shouldn’t be many — The Bill is GREAT."

    Despite the urgency in his messaging, progress on Capitol Hill has been slow. Lawmakers have sent just five bills to Mr. Trump’s desk this Congress. Still, Speaker Mike Johnson is aiming to change that, setting a Memorial Day deadline to pass the reconciliation package through the House. GOP leadership hopes to finalize the bill by July 4 — a timeline that coincides with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s request for a debt-limit increase included in the package.

    GOP Draft Released

    On Monday, the house GOP released a draft of the bill (full text below)- which confirms several core policy pillars previously signaled by leadership. Among the most consequential is a 5% remittance tax on international money transfers, designed to fund border security, which includes a new refundable credit for verified U.S. senders and strict compliance rules.

    In a significant rollback of Biden-era environmental policy, the bill would terminate or phase out numerous clean energy tax credits, including for residential solar, new energy-efficient homes, and hydrogen production, with sharp limits on components sourced from "prohibited foreign entities"—primarily targeting Chinese supply chains.

    The legislation also introduces a new federal income tax deduction for qualified tips and overtime compensation through 2028, aimed at working-class earners. However, these benefits explicitly exclude high earners, service-sector owners, and nontraditional tipping industries, and require both the employee and spouse to have Social Security numbers to qualify—adding a compliance hurdle that could reignite partisan fights over ID requirements.

    Beyond those provisions, the bill extends provisions from the 2017 Trump tax law, including the higher estate and gift tax exemptions and the limitation on the deduction of state and local taxes (SALT), with a modified $30,000 cap for individuals that phases down for high earners. This could fuel renewed conflict with blue-state Republicans still pushing for full repeal.

    The bill further includes a new cap on the tax benefit of itemized deductions, revives limitations on casualty loss and moving expense deductions, and eliminates miscellaneous itemized deductions altogether—provisions likely to draw sharp resistance from Democrats, particularly those representing high-cost-of-living states.

    Other notable points:

    • A tax break on overtime through 2028
    • Raises the debt limit by $4 trillion
    • Creates tax-exempt "MAGA" savings accounts for kids
    • Does not include the new millionaire tax bracket
    • Limits, or terminates, the tax benefit of itemized deductions
    • Requires a certificate to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), and imposes penalties for fraudulent misstatements
    • Terminates the IRS's direct file program
    • Terminates tax-exempt status for any organization that supports terrorist organizations
    • Increases penalties for unauthorized disclosure of taxpayer information to $250,000 or 10 years imprisonment
    • Permanently extends the expanded child tax credit and requires social security numbers to claim it.
    • Permanently increases the qualified business income deduction from 20% to 23%.
    • Permanently limits the deduction of gambling losses to the extent of winnings

    Key Committees Begin Markups Amid Policy Flashpoints

    Meanwhile, three powerful House panels - Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Agriculture - are scheduled to mark up their portions of the bill this week. House Budget is expected to consolidate the legislation ahead of its presentation to the Rules Committee for a floor vote next week, according to Punchbowl News.

    Ways and Means released the initial tax draft Friday, with a more comprehensive version expected later Monday. The package proposes new taxes on university endowments and a controversial remittance tax on international money transfers, aimed at funding border enforcement. Republicans have opted not to pursue a new tax bracket for the ultra-wealthy despite Trump’s earlier suggestions.

    Significant modifications to clean energy credits from the Inflation Reduction Act are also included. The bill proposes repealing electric vehicle tax credits by year’s end, phasing out others over time, and adding sourcing requirements that effectively exclude Chinese components. Transferability of credits would also be curtailed.

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    Health Care Cuts and AI Preemption Spark Backlash

    The Energy and Commerce Committee released its bill late Sunday, drawing ire from both the right and the center. The lack of changes to Medicaid’s FMAP formula and the absence of per capita caps angered conservatives, while moderates remained cautious.

    A Congressional Budget Office analysis released by Democrats estimated that the bill’s health provisions would reduce federal spending by $715 billion over a decade but leave 13.7 million more Americans uninsured. Representative Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.) called the proposal "catastrophic."

    The bill also proposes a 10-year moratorium on most state-level regulations targeting artificial intelligence, a potential boon for tech companies but a likely flashpoint under the Senate’s Byrd Rule. Additionally, the bill tasks the Commerce Department and FCC with identifying 600 MHz of spectrum for auction while shielding certain defense-related frequencies from commercial use.

    SALT Showdown Threatens GOP Unity

    Speaker Johnson faces a crucial test Monday morning as he meets with blue-state Republicans and the Ways and Means Committee over the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap. Lawmakers including Representatives Elise Stefanik, Mike Lawler, Nick LaLota, Andrew Garbarino, and Young Kim have rejected a proposed $30,000 cap, citing political peril in their districts - which is in the draft released today.

    Ms. Stefanik, who opposed the 2017 tax law over the SALT cap, has a fraught relationship with Johnson. Mr. Lawler is reportedly weighing a gubernatorial bid and represents a swing district. Mr. Garbarino has warned publicly that a weak SALT deal could cost him reelection. Mr. LaLota has been under pressure over Medicaid cuts, while Ms. Kim has staked her brand on delivering relief for California homeowners.

    If no action is taken, the existing SALT cap will expire in January, potentially increasing pressure on lawmakers - and giving holdouts leverage.

    Some Republican leaders believe the SALT debate could derail the entire reconciliation effort unless Johnson can peel off enough support from within the dissenting group.

    SNAP Overhaul in the Agriculture Bill

    Tuesday evening, the Agriculture Committee is set to mark up its section of the bill, including proposed cost-shifting of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to states. The package also incorporates key provisions of the bipartisan farm bill, repackaged to meet reconciliation rules. Moderates such as Representative Don Bacon (R-Neb.) have signaled support after early hesitation.

    House Republicans are wagering heavily on the success of this legislative push, seeking to widen and extend provisions from Mr. Trump’s 2017 tax law while slashing major components of the social safety net. With only eight legislative days left before the recess and no guarantee the Senate will follow suit, GOP leaders face a politically fraught balancing act.

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 15:00
  26. Site: Catholic Conclave
    1 week 3 days ago
     It was like a World Cup: the video of the Argentine bishops announcing Robert Prevost as the new Pope Leo XIV https://t.co/njlOTrlDtP— Catholic Conclave (@cathconclave) May 12, 2025 An interesting brief from the Wanderer on a video that caused a stir in Argentina—the one from the CCTV camera in the room where the Argentine bishops gathered to follow the papal election—although the Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
  27. Site: Henrymakow.com
    1 week 3 days ago


    Israeli mass demonstrations - Netanyahu not Hamas is Our Enemy


    Israelis finally recognize that Netanyahu's agenda is the destruction of Israel and the start of a nuclear war. 

    Israel was established to provide an excuse for WW3.
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    ALL VACCINES WILL KILL YOU: Dr. Pierre Kory Reveals What Desperately Needs to Change in American Healthcare


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    Lena Petrova--De-dollarization 'gains momentum' in Asian markets


    The ASEAN+3 bloc of nations approved a landmark financial assistance mechanism this week that ditches the greenback for the yuan and other regional currencies
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    (left, An ad you will never see in Israel. Organized Jewry/Freemasonry wants other races to disappear through miscegenation.)


    The constantly kvetching and ceaselessly ungrateful Jewish Brain- 'Israel must consider if it can rely on Trump whose seems to be driven by issues other than what's best for Israel'





    With Trump administration's negotiated release of Edan Alexander, Israeli citizens fume at Netanyahu and the impotence of Israeli government



    US says deal struck to cut China trade deficit after two-day negotiation talk in Geneva


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    Dr. Yeadon: 'This Study in Rats is Devastating...It Strikes Me as Satanic.'

    https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/dr-yeadon-this-study-in-rats-is-devastating

    Dr. Mike Yeadon Comments on "The mRNA-based pseudo-"vaccines" destroy over 60% of non-renewable egg supply of female rats." by Suavek
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    Whitney Webb- Tech Giants Associated with Trump Have Just Stolen Ukraine's Birthright


    It's what Masonic Jews do. Steal. The agenda of Organized Jewry (Rothschilds) and Freemasonry is to steal everything and murder everyone.  See Gaza. Vaccines. Geo-engineering. 


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    Catherine Austin Fitts: We Know That mRNA Technology is a Killer, and Yet We See the President Supporting It
    "...since the Trump inauguration, 2.6 million children have been given mRNA shots...So this, to me, is nothing short of murder."


    Despite their apparent danger, however, the former HUD official notes that there are entrenched "constituencies...that want this diminution of life expectancy and want this poisoning to keep happening."
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    Satanist Pope Prevost is the enemy of Christ



    Mike Yeadon- RFK JR: CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL - DARPA IS SPRAYING US - TRUMP LAUNCHES
    TRIBUNALS AGAINST SKY POISONERS


    On May 6, 2025, RFK Jr. confirmed what we've all been warning about: chemtrails are NOT a conspiracy. They're real. They're toxic. And they're being deployed by DARPA in a full-scale atmospheric assault on humanity.

    DARPA is conducting aerial chemical warfare under the false label of "climate engineering." They're dumping barium (a radiological
    weapon), aluminum (a neurotoxin linked to Alzheimer's), and strontium (a DNA disruptor) into the skies above American towns and farms.

    RFK Jr. stated: "These materials are contained in jet fuel, and their release is not accidental... This is a crime against humanity."

    This isn't speculation. This is a Trump-appointed official blowing the whistle on one of the largest Deep State crimes in modern
    history. It's no longer "just" weather control. It's biological, neurological, agricultural sabotage.

    Under Biden, these spray campaigns intensified--he was their puppet. But now Trump is back, and the war on the sky-poisoning elites is
    ON. Military tribunals have been greenlit. Over 400 top-secret weather programs are being declassified. Expect mass exposure.
    Expect arrests.

    The media is in full blackout. Big Tech is throttling the story. Because they're part of it. Bill Gates has spent over $20B funding
    sun-blocking sulfur sprays. Harvard has the blueprints. Klaus Schwab, Soros, and King Charles are also tied into these geo-climate
    weapons designed to:

    • Block the sun
    • Destroy crop yields
    • Induce drought
    • Collapse immune systems
    • Cripple food independence

    You don't need a PhD to see it. Just LOOK UP. Real clouds don't hang in cross-pattern grids. Rainwater tests across the U.S. show
    aluminum at 1,200% above legal limits. Independent labs are detecting nanoparticles never found in nature.

    Hospitals report mysterious spikes in neurological damage, skin lesions, and chronic fatigue, especially in children. The CDC is
    silent. Why? Because the source isn't a virus. It's DARPA's sky weapons.

    Americans are waking up. Red states are fighting back:

    Tennessee: Geoengineering banned without consent.
    Florida: Weather manipulation now labeled eco-terrorism.
    Texas: Cease-and-desist issued to DARPA contractors.

    Drones are tracking unmarked planes. Patriots are sampling soil.
    Whistleblowers are breaking rank.

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    Hamdy Mig---"This is my niece, Sarah, she is one year and one month old. I am responsible for her because her father was martyred. She needs milk every day. The price of a carton of milk here is $40 if we can find it, and I couldn't afford it because of its high cost. Help me buy it so we don't lose her and she doesn't die of hunger."

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    People are evolving into a species that can't relax

    I don't know about anyone else, but I have noticed that people, especially me, can't just sit and do nothing. Try it, you'll see!! We have to be scrolling or cleaning, or planning or...anything rather than just relaxing, staring into space. (Hopefully) you will tell me that I'm wrong and just a personal thing I am experiencing.


    All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone  [Blaise Pascal, 1647]

    Reader comment- "Or sit quietly with their thoughts. I think that's a huge problem that people are constantly looking for distractions instead of just sitting with what will remain thereafter and is still lurking when they're looking for distractions."
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    The Diddy Trial UPDATE: You WON'T BELIEVE Mr T Is Involved - YouTube

    Start at about the 7:50 mark to the end. 



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    Health Ranger Report: Christopher Bjerknes challenges conventional narratives about world history


    Author Christopher Bjerknes argues that Hitler was not an autonomous dictator, but a tool used by Zionist and communist interests. His early ties to Marxist groups and anti-Semitic rhetoric were allegedly orchestrated to weaken Germany and enable Soviet expansion.
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    Florida becomes second state to ban FLUORIDE in public water


    Florida will become the second state (after Utah) to ban fluoride in public drinking water starting July 1, 2025, citing concerns over brain development risks in children and pregnant women. The move challenges decades of CDC-endorsed fluoridation, with critics framing it as "forced medication" and a win for personal liberty.

    Recent studies, including a 2024 National Toxicology Program report, link fluoride to lower IQ in children, while Florida's Surgeon General calls fluoridation "public health malpractice." Utah's ban takes effect immediately, and other states (e.g., Louisiana, Kentucky) are considering similar measures. Over 60 U.S. municipalities have already ended fluoridation.

    Peter Halligan---This is what Trump is up against when negotiating a deal with the EU - "net zero" and "woke-ism" EU socialism and censorship!!!

    EU rewrites every trade deal it has with the entire world via its new compliance directive


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    All non-Satanists are slated for genocide by satanist Jews and Freemasons


    BREAKING: COVID-19 mRNA Shots Destroy Over 60% of Women's Non-Renewable Egg Supply


    New study finds rats injected intramuscularly with human-equivalent mRNA doses suffered irreversible loss of primordial follicles -- the foundation of fertility.

    60% of primordial follicles destroyed (p < 0.001)

    AMH levels crashed -- key fertility hormone

    Increase in atretic (dying) follicles

    Inflammation & apoptosis markers spiked (TGF-β1, VEGF, caspase-3)

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  28. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    U.S., China Reach Agreement To Lower Tariffs In 90-Day Cool-Off Period

    Update (0958ET):

    During a Monday morning press conference, President Trump told reporters that trade negotiations have led to a "total reset" in U.S.-China relations. He added that he may speak with President Xi Jinping later this week.

    More headlines from Trump's press conference (courtesy of Bloomberg):

    • TRUMP: Total Reset With China

    • TRUMP: No Decoupling With China

    • TRUMP: Doesn’t Include Cars, Steel, Aluminum

    • TRUMP: Will Speak to Xi Maybe at End of Week

    • TRUMP: China Deal 'Not the Easiest Thing to Paper'

    .@POTUS: "Yesterday, we achieved a total reset with China. After productive talks in Geneva, both sides now agree to reduce the tariffs imposed after April 2nd to 10% for 90 days as negotiators continue on the largest structural issues." pic.twitter.com/Jd6tkHo5eC

    — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 12, 2025

     

    *   *   * 

    Update (0812ET):

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appeared on Bloomberg TV to discuss the newly announced 90-day suspension of most tariffs between the United States and China.

    Below is a summary of key takeaways from the interview, as reported by Bloomberg:

    • BESSENT: BOTH SIDES AGREE WE DON’T WANT GENERALIZED DECOUPLING

    • BESSENT: PHASE ONE TRADE DEAL WITH CHINA OFFERED A TEMPLATE

    • BESSENT: WILL SEE WHERE THE FINAL CHINA RECIPROCAL TARIFF ENDS

    • BESSENT: CURRENT TARIFF LEVEL FOR CHINA IS A ‘FLOOR’

    • BESSENT: APRIL 2 LEVEL WOULD BE A CEILING FOR CHINA

    • BESSENT: NOW HAVE A PROCESS IN PLACE TO AVOID CHINA ESCALATION

    • BESSENT: IMPLAUSIBLE TARIFFS ON CHINA GO BELOW 10%

    • BESSENT: WANT TO SEE CHINA BOOST CONSUMPTION, OPEN THEIR MARKET

    • BESSENT: CHINA MET PHASE-ONE OBLIGATIONS UNTIL BIDEN NEGLECT

    • BESSENT: ESCALATORY TARIFFS WERE LIKE US–CHINA EMBARGO

    • BESSENT: CAN ALWAYS GO BACK TO APRIL 2 LEVEL FOR CHINA TARIFFS

    • BESSENT: SEE PHONE CALL BEFORE MEETING FOR TRUMP AND XI

    • BESSENT: IF CHINA ACTS, PERHAPS FENTANYL TARIFF COULD COME DOWN

    • BESSENT: NOT PUSHING FOR DEATH PENALTY ON FENTANYL PRODUCTION

    *   *   * 

    China and the U.S. moved to ease trade tensions early Monday, agreeing to a temporary 90-day reduction in reciprocal tariffs on each other's goods, according to a joint statement released by both governments on X. The accord, viewed as a breakthrough in a multi-month trade war between the world's two largest economies, helped spark a rally in global markets: S&P 500 futures rose 3%, while Nasdaq futures gained 4%. European markets also advanced, and the U.S. dollar strengthened. U.S. government bonds sold as investors rotated back into equities and other risk-sensitive assets. 

    https://t.co/NXlayMvBWE

    — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 12, 2025

    The joint statement said that the U.S. will reduce levies on most Chinese imports from 145% to 30% by Wednesday. 

    Here's a summary of the U.S. actions:

    The United States will remove the additional tariffs it imposed on China on April 8 and April 9, 2025, but will retain all duties imposed on China prior to April 2, 2025, including Section 301 tariffs, Section 232 tariffs, tariffs imposed in response to the fentanyl national emergency invoked pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and Most Favored Nation tariffs.

    • The United States will suspend its 34% reciprocal tariff imposed on April 2, 2025 for 90 days, but retain a 10% tariff during the period of the pause.

    • The 10% tariff continues to set a fair baseline that encourages domestic production, strengthens our supply chains and ensures that American trade policy supports American workers first, instead of undercutting them.

    • By imposing reciprocal tariffs, President Trump is ensuring our trade policy works for the American economy, addresses our national emergency brought on by our growing and persistent trade deficit, and levels the playing field for American workers and producers.

    • Unlike previous administrations, President Trump took a tough, uncompromising stance on China to protect American interests and stop unfair trade practices.

    The breakthrough in the talks also led to China reducing its 125% tariff on U.S. goods to 10%. 

    Here's a summary of the Chinese actions:

    China will remove the retaliatory tariffs it announced since April 4, 2025, and will also suspend or remove the non-tariff countermeasures taken against the United States since April 2, 2025.

    • China will also suspend its initial 34% tariff on the United States it announced on April 4, 2025 for 90 days, but will retain a 10% tariff during the period of the pause.

    The joint statement indicated that Monday's agreement would pave the way for further negotiations between senior officials. On the U.S. side, talks are being led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, while Vice Premier He Lifeng will represent China... 

    After taking the aforementioned actions, the Parties will establish a mechanism to continue discussions about economic and trade relations. The representative from the Chinese side for these discussions will be He Lifeng, Vice Premier of the State Council, and the representatives from the U.S. side will be Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, and Jamieson Greer, United States Trade Representative. These discussions may be conducted alternately in China and the United States, or a third country upon agreement of the Parties. As required, the two sides may conduct working-level consultations on relevant economic and trade issues.

    The White House wrote on X that these trade talks will address America's trade imbalances:

    • The U.S. goods trade deficit with China was $295.4 billion in 2024—the largest with any trading partner.

    • Today's agreement works toward addressing these imbalances to deliver real, lasting benefits to American workers, famers, and businesses.

    The talks also addressed the ongoing fentanyl crisis.

    • The United States and China will take aggressive actions to stem the flow of fentanyl and other precursors from China to illicit drug producers in North America.

    https://t.co/xHkmdojKE7

    — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 12, 2025

    Shortly after the joint statement was released, Bessent, who led the American delegation at the talks, told reporters in Geneva that both sides have "substantially moved down the tariff levels" and "neither side wants a decoupling." 

    "We had a very robust and productive discussion on steps forward on fentanyl," Bessent added, pointing out that those talks might lead to "purchasing agreements" by China.

    .@SecScottBessent: "We have reached an agreement on a 90-day pause and substantially moved down the tariff levels — both sides, on the reciprocal tariffs, will move their tariffs down 115%." pic.twitter.com/Jxdd11U83s

    — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) May 12, 2025

    Commenting on markets, Benedicte Lowe, an equity and derivatives strategist at BNP Paribas Markets 360, told Bloomberg TV that "deescalation was much better than expected by the market" and "for the next couple of days I would expect a bullish environment in the global equity market."

    Last week, President Trump floated the "80% Tariff on China seems right!" trial balloon on Truth Social, noting that the final decision rests with Bessent.

    "In our view, equity markets are returning to where they would have moved to if Liberation Day had not happened and Trump had just applied the 10% universal tariff," said Roberto Scholtes, head of strategy at Singular Bank. 

    Scholtes noted, "Corporate fundamentals are healthy, first quarter results have substantially surprised on the upside, and there's plenty of cash to be invested."

    "This deescalation is much more positive than anticipated (GSe: 54% U.S. on China tariffs and 34% China on U.S. tariffs) and the market is reacting as such. We are seeing a clear reversal in short USD positions as U.S. recession risks reduce (GSe was 45%!) and risk-on sentiment rises. DXY rallied over 1%, S&P futures surged 3%, 10y UST rose to 4.43%, gold tumbled ~3%," Goldman analyst Yichin Tsai told clients. 

    S&P 500 futures are up 3%, and Nasdaq futures are up 4%. European stocks are in the green. 

    The move toward lower tariffs and easing trade tensions between the world's two largest economies follows Sunday's negotiations, during which both sides reported making "substantial progress."

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 14:45
  29. Site: PeakProsperity
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Chris Martenson
    China trade analyzed. The headlines said that the U.S. settled on 30% and, in return, China at 10%. But it's more complicated than that. Beware the 'flag rally.'
  30. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    The Decivilizing Of America

    Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness,

    Secure borders and stationary populations were considered the mark of emerging civilization by classical historians. In contrast to nomadism and constant strife over disputed territory, peoples who had clearly defined and protected borders ascended to statehood, maintained a distinct culture, and achieved greater prosperity and security.

    In contrast, what we suffered from 2021 to 2025 was unprecedented.

    It was an intentional administration effort to de-civilize the nation by destroying its borders—as if to return to the premodern era, when there were no clearly defined or secure borders, and nomadic peoples migrated as they pleased.

    Stranger still, illegal aliens were at times given precedence over citizens—as immigration law was simply discarded.

    Without IDs, illegal aliens boarded U.S. flights, while the government ordered citizens to obtain more secure “real” IDs.

    Some 8,500 veteran soldiers were drummed out of the military for refusing the experimental mRNA vaccinations. Yet 10 million simply walked across the southern border into America, without a care from the Biden administration whether they were vaccinated, ill, or had criminal records.

    Any American citizen pulled over for speeding with an invalid driver’s license, while trafficking eight illegal aliens without identification, would be jailed and charged with felony counts. Not Abrego Garcia—the violent spousal abuser, M-13 gang-member, and previously deported illegal alien. He was neither arrested nor even cited by the officers who pulled him over.

    One of the great hallmarks of Roman civilization and subsequent Western civilization was its ability to create large cities by importing clean water, removing waste through sewers, and collecting garbage from the streets. Even in the age before microbiology, ancient and premodern city planners knew the connection between cleanliness and epidemics and how to lessen disease through sanitation.

    But in the last two decades, our major cities have been de-civilizing. Citizens are told not to flush non-biodegradable plastics down their toilets, both to preserve the environment and to ensure municipal septic systems work properly. They are reminded to pick up their pets’ excrement on sidewalks and in parks. For purposes of collective health, they are taught not to urinate, spit, or defecate in public areas.

    Is all that for naught? After all, our mayors and city councils in our biggest and most iconic cities simply destroyed centuries of such health protocols and allowed tens of thousands of homeless people with impunity to inject, urinate, defecate, and fornicate in or on storefronts, streets, gutters, parks, and sidewalks. The stench, flotsam, and jetsam have utterly transformed American inner cities. Central Seattle, Los Angeles, parts of San Francisco, Portland, and Washington, DC, now resemble medieval London or Paris—as if a millennium-long knowledge of basic public health was simply ignored or mocked. In truth, the centers of America’s big cities are spaces where public health protocols are no longer enforced, where all the ancient and hard-won rules of civilization no longer apply. It would likely be safer to walk through Dickensian London of 1850 than to take a nocturnal ride on the New York subway.

    Another hallmark of Western civilization was the creation of a judiciary that gave the state the power to enforce laws, ensure justice, and deter criminals by swift punishment, unaffected by ideology, bias, bribes, and personal vendettas. 

    From the law codes of Justinian to the American Constitution, ascendant civilizations rose with a codified legal system applied uniformly, disinterestedly, and fairly.

    Not any longer. Ideology has turned the American legal system into a commissariat of sorts in which relativism is now the norm. Vandalize a Tesla in a blue state and, like the South of old, the laws will be lightly if even enforced and applied selectively. No one seriously believes that Alvin Bragg, Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis were interested in real crimes rather than concocting them to destroy a presidential candidate and thus warp the political system. In contemporary America, it was far more likely to suffer a jail sentence for walking peaceably but unlawfully in the Capitol than for torching a federal courthouse, historic church, or police precinct in the summer of 2020.

    From the ancient world to the medieval city to the modern era, universities were catalysts for the advance of science, medicine, law, politics, and the humanities. 

    Their civilizing missions were predicated on two unquestioned assumptions. One, unlike prior superstitions, inductive reason would guide intellectual inquiry; examining all evidence would lead to general conclusions rather than cherry-picking data to “prove” predetermined dogmas.

    Today, DEI, the Green New Deal, and the “critical theories”—legal, race, and monetary—in the university start with deductive reasoning and then warp evidence to support such faith-based dogmas. 

    If any of the current violent pro-Hamas and anti-Semitic campus protests were instead directed at reducing abortion, ensuring that biological men do not compete in women’s sports, or banning racial preferences, the protestors would have long ago been arrested, expelled, or deported.

    Tribalism was a premodern obstacle to civilization. It remains so in many parts of the Middle East, where it is routine to hire, promote, retain, and reward on the basis of kinship and bloodlines. In America, we were supposed to have a singular meritocracy, civilization’s effort to ensure that those with the most expertise and experience were charged with the most important tasks and responsibilities to ensure the safety and welfare of the majority. Race, religion, gender, and sexual orientation were neither rewarded nor punished.

    Instead, we here, too, returned to premodern tribalism and race quotas, regressing to precivilization ideas that we owe our allegiance first to those who share a superficial appearance rather than to the body politic at large.

    Finally, civilizations were often judged by their physical infrastructures—whether iconic, like the Parthenon, the Pantheon, medieval cathedrals, or modern towering skyscrapers, or practical by their roads, aqueducts, government buildings, and water and sewage systems.

    But by that standard, too, we are decivilizing. Future generations will be amazed at California’s decaying high-speed rail to nowhere. Tens of billions of dollars and over a decade after the start of construction, there is still not a single foot of track laid, but instead only half-finished massive concrete overpasses that now resemble half-destroyed Mycenean palace walls. The nearly one-billion-dollar, half-finished, five-year-old Obama library resembles an oversized Stonehenge monolith.

    In California, we do not just blow up dams, the brilliant work of a now-forgotten earlier generation. Instead, we use public bond funds, voted by the citizens to build new dams and reservoirs, to destroy them.

    The more California requires lumber for new homes, fuel for its 31 million vehicles, and energy for its 15 million homes, the more the governor and legislature decivilize the state by shutting down timber companies, forcing oil refineries to flee the state, and closing nuclear power plants and fossil fuel generation, while witnessing replacement, new-age battery-power generation plants blow up into flames.

    When preventable fires consume whole neighborhoods of Los Angeles, a paralytic government has no clue how to rebuild the work of past generations. The city government of Los Angeles proved uncannily efficient in ensuring such conflagration—canceling preventive brush clearing, the mayor junketing in Africa during fire season, reservoirs left empty, hydrants that did not work—but cannot rebuild, only destroy.

    Why is America decivilizing?

    In part, our mediocre schools have not produced competent stewards to maintain and expand the sophisticated infrastructure and ethos of a prior, far more capable generation.

    In part, the sheer richness of our inheritance lulled our Lotus-Eater generations to consume what they inherited rather than reinvest it, given that since birth they had been insulated from the elemental and unchanging human and natural challenges to civilization.

    And in part, a nihilism arose that despised the hard work of civilization and instead romanticized the wild—clueless that natural man, without the bridles of civilization, is a very dangerous beast, as we so often and lamentably see today.

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 14:25
  31. Site: AsiaNews.it
    1 week 3 days ago
    The pontiff met in the Paul VI Hall with representatives of the media that covered the death of Pope Francis and the conclave. Speaking about imprisoned journalists, he said that their suffering 'challenges the conscience of nations and the international community'. Following his predecessor, he called for disarming 'communication of all prejudice and resentment, fanaticism and even hatred'. ...
  32. Site: Catholic Conclave
    1 week 3 days ago
    Already present in the East since the beginning of the 4th century, the devotion of the Theotokos took off in the 4th century in the Italian peninsula and spread throughout Europe and the entire Christian world.The cult of the Virgin Mary of Help was established in Palermo in 1306, following the alleged apparition of the Virgin to the Augustinian father Nicola La Bruna. According to tradition, Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
  33. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    Trump Moves To Rescind Appliance Efficiency Standards

    President Donald Trump on May 9 moved to rescind appliance energy efficiency standards, calling them “unnecessary radical green agenda policies.”

    In a memo to the secretary of the Department of Energy, Trump said, “Water conservation requirements for faucets, showers, bathtubs, and toilets ... make bathroom appliances more expensive and less functional.” 

    “‘Efficiency’ standards render other American appliances like clothes washers and dishwashers less useful, more breakable, and more expensive to repair,” the White House said in a fact sheet on Trump’s memo. “The Federal Government should not impose or enforce regulations that make taxpayers’ lives worse.”

    As Joseph Lord reports for The Epoch Times, the memo orders Energy Secretary Chris Wright to review and rescind rules limiting water use in showerheads, faucets, dishwashers, toilets, urinals, and washing machines, or return these rules to the bare minimum required by the Energy Policy Act of 1992.

    The executive order will have a major effect on the Energy Star program, which is managed by the EPA in coordination with the Department of Energy. Under the program, the EPA establishes energy efficiency guidelines, and appliances in a given category that meet these specifications can display the ENERGY STAR logo.

    Trump said that his directive would help increase the effectiveness of bathroom products, saying that standards imposed in the aftermath of the 1992 legislation had reduced consumer choice and made products less functional than they were before the legislation.

    “Ultra-efficient washing machines cost at least $100 more according to the Department of Energy,” the White House fact sheet states. “Updated dishwasher regulations caused those appliances to take two hours or more to complete a normal load of dishes—about twice the time of pre-standards models.”

    Earlier, on Jan. 20, Trump signed an executive order to “safeguard the American people’s freedom to choose from a variety of goods and appliances, including but not limited to lightbulbs, dishwashers, washing machines, gas stoves, water heaters, toilets, and shower heads.”

    The same day, Trump signed several measures passed by Congress under the Congressional Review Act repealing rules from President Joe Biden’s administration related to energy efficiency.

    The measures repealed regulations on gas water heaters and walk-in coolers and freezers, as well as energy conservation standards for some appliances and some consumer products and commercial freezers.

    “It’s all about common sense,” Trump said as he signed the legislation while flanked by Republican lawmakers.

    The rescission comes amid an ongoing reorganization of the EPA under Director Lee Zeldin.

    In a video, Zeldin said that before the Trump administration, the regulatory agency was spending $63 billion “including all sorts of political green slush funds”—although it cost only about $8 billion to $10 billion to run the agency.

    “This reorganization will bring much needed efficiencies to incorporate science into our rulemakings and sharply focus our work on providing the cleanest air, land, and water for our communities. It will also save at least $300 million annually for the American people,” Zeldin said.

    Such an exclusive focus on air, land, and water cleanliness is a departure from the focus on climate change that has defined the agency in the past, and fits into Trump’s larger commitment to reducing regulations that the president has said harm American energy production and use.

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    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 14:05
  34. Site: Catholic Conclave
    1 week 3 days ago
    Riccardi: "Prevost knows poverty. He will be able to implement Francis' ideas"The founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio: he will be in continuity with his predecessor but he is not a clone, he does not have that impatient exuberance.   He is a metapolitical Pope, with great experience"A Pontiff has been chosen from among the cardinals who will be in continuity with the legacy of Pope Catholic Conclavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227218883606585321noreply@blogger.com0
  35. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    Kurdish Militant Group PKK Disbands After 40-Year Conflict With Turkey

    Via Middle East Eye

    The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on Monday announced its decision to disband and end its armed struggle, following a call in February by its imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan.

    The Kurdish armed group, which has waged a war against Turkey since the 1980s, said that it had completed its "historic mission" and brought the Kurdish question to a point where it could be resolved through democratic politics.

    Flags showing the face of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK), via AFP.

    The group said Ocalan should be allowed to manage the disbandment process. It also requested solid and integrated legal guarantees to ensure the success of their decision.

    "At this stage, it is important for the Grand National Assembly of Turkey to play its role with historical responsibility," the PKK's statement said.

    "Similarly, we call on all political parties represented in the parliament, especially the government and the main opposition party, and civil society organizations to take responsibility and participate in the peace and democratic society process."

    This historic announcement came after a 40-year-long conflict between Turkey and the PKK. The group initially sought Kurdish independence but later shifted its goal to autonomy and greater rights for Kurds within Turkey.

    Over the decades, various governments, including that of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, attempted to resolve the issue through legal settlements, but these efforts were unsuccessful, and tens of thousands of lives were lost.

    Since 2016, Ankara has managed to corner the PKK in northern Iraq by employing sophisticated technology such as drones and signal intelligence capabilities, as well as establishing dozens of military outposts that restrict the group's freedom of movement and infiltration across the border.

    A source familiar with the matter told Middle East Eye that the PKK's announcement was initially set to be released on Friday, as the government had made some preparations, but internal PKK bureaucracy delayed its release.

    Ocalan, 76, stated in his February address that the armed struggle was a product of a bygone era and that Kurds must seek their rights by participating in democratic societies within nation states.

    Following his call, the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-armed group led by PKK offshoots in Syria, then struck a deal with the new Damascus government, promising to return control of state institutions to the central administration.

    Ocalan’s call came after Turkish nationalist leader and key Erdogan ally, Devlet Bahceli, asked the PKK leader last year to disband his group, potentially in return for being released into house arrest.

    Talks with Kurdish DEM party

    Since then, Bahceli has promised greater democratization in Turkey through phone conversations with the pro-Kurdish DEM Party. The government’s talks with Kurdish opposition groups have also divided the country’s opposition, as they come when popular Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has been jailed and anti-Erdogan protests have been cracked down on.

    “Long live the brotherhood of the Turkish and Kurdish peoples and a fully independent Turkey!”
    Not once a "Long live Kurds" or "Long live Kurdistan."

    Here's the full statement of the PKK.https://t.co/4JTFauBoS5

    — Polla Garmiany ☀️ (@PollaGarmiany) May 12, 2025

    Ankara insiders now expect the PKK and Turkish intelligence to announce specifics on how the group will return its arms and formally disband. Turkish officials, speaking on condition of anonymity earlier this year, told MEE that legal studies were underway to allow PKK members who have not participated in armed attacks to be welcomed back to the country.

    Some officials speculate that the PKK leadership will either remain in northern Iraq, potentially in Sulaymaniyah, or be allowed to relocate to Europe in exile.

    The DEM Party also expects the government to release thousands of its members imprisoned on non-violent charges and to end the practice of unseating its popularly elected mayors. A key demand is the release of Selahattin Demirtas, a Kurdish-Turkish politician who has been incarcerated since 2016.

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 13:45
  36. Site: Mises Institute
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Robert P. Murphy
    Bob Murphy digs into the latest GDP numbers, questions Peter St. Onge’s optimistic spin, and shows what the data really says about tariffs, trade, and recession fears.
  37. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    Mexico Sues Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label As Sheinbaum Pushes Back On Trump Renaming Order

    The Mexican government has filed a legal complaint against Google after the tech giant adopted U.S. government terminology labeling the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" on its Maps platform for users inside the United States.

    President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the lawsuit this week, denouncing the renaming as an overreach of U.S. territorial claims and a disregard for Mexico's sovereignty over its own coastal waters.

    "Google is already being sued. There has already been a first resolution, and it is awaited," Sheinbaum said at a press conference. "What we are saying is that Google should put Gulf of America where it is Gulf of America, which is the part that corresponds to the territory of the United States, and put Gulf of Mexico to the territorial part that corresponds to Mexico and Cuba."

    The dispute stems from a directive issued by President Donald Trump shortly after taking office in which he renamed the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America." Trump characterized the change as a tribute to "American greatness," despite the gulf's original name having been in continuous use since the 16th century.

    While the order carries no international legal weight, Google has complied with the U.S. government's naming directive within its American-facing services, citing longstanding internal policy to follow official U.S. geographic naming standards via the federal Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

    Mexico's Foreign Ministry had previously issued letters to Google urging the company not to apply the new name to Mexican territorial waters. Those appeals were unsuccessful, prompting the current legal action.

    Though symbolic in nature, the case reflects growing tensions between Sheinbaum's administration and Washington, particularly over questions of cultural identity, regional sovereignty, and the influence of American tech companies abroad.

    The name change has also sparked political controversy in the U.S. In February, the White House barred the Associated Press from the press pool for continuing to refer to the waterway as the Gulf of Mexico, accusing the news agency of "defying official nomenclature."

    President Trump had advocated for the new name since before taking office, after Sheinbaum - then Mexico City's mayor - jokingly proposed rebranding North America as "Mexican America," referencing a phrase in an early draft of Mexico's constitution. That quip reportedly prompted Trump's advisers to push the Gulf renaming as a direct rebuke.

    Sheinbaum has satirically suggested renaming North America as "Mexican America"Image: Alfredo Estrella/AFP

    While Trump's executive order applies only to U.S. federal agencies and does not require recognition by other countries or international bodies, Mexico's legal complaint could set a precedent in challenging the global reach of U.S. policies via digital platforms.

    A spokesperson for Google declined to comment on the pending litigation but reiterated the company's policy of aligning map labels with official government data in each region.

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 13:25
  38. Site: Zero Hedge
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Tyler Durden
    Financial Media's Tariff Incontinence: A Retrospective

    Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

    Remember just one month ago when the media was acting like tariffs were a guarantee of 100 years of famine, plague and pestilence? Well tomorrow the stock market is going to be well on its way toward all-time highs, again.

    Tom Lee will look like a genius and bears will look like morons. You know the drill. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

    My readers will remember that just about a month ago, after “Liberation Day,” I made the case that the mainstream financial media’s panic and histrionics over President Trump’s tariffs were equal parts embarrassing and pointless.

    I argued the age-old point that “you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs” and that the discomfort making these so-called “financial professionals” squirm in their seats—and even audibly cry out for help—was actually proof that what President Trump set out to do, recalibrate the world stage and redefine how people think about global trade, was working.

    In fact, I titled my article accordingly.

    Your Discomfort Means It's Working

    Your Discomfort Means It's Working

    I thought the media’s behavior was ridiculous for a couple of reasons. First, as I said, how can anyone expect meaningful change without experiencing some temporary discomfort? Second, I found it downright embarrassing how the slightest downtick in the stock market—a market that has arguably been overvalued for decades—immediately sent analysts and media personalities into a full-blown panic over tariffs before they even went into effect, and certainly before we’d had any chance to negotiate deals.

    My stance was simple: “Everybody calm the hell down and let’s just wait and see what happens.” I found it hilarious that people acted as though these tariffs would remain in place for eternity and that the seeds of America’s demise had already been sown for the next hundred years.

    I wrote at the time:

    America was a country founded by rugged individuals, but there’s nothing rugged about throwing a fit because your NASDAQ investment, up 150% over the last 5 years, is down 5% today — especially when the “problem” likely will be resolved to some degree within a matter of weeks, if not months.

    I argued that patience was in order—and that, given time, deals would start falling into place.

    And lo and behold, that’s exactly what’s happening. While final, fully inked deals haven’t yet crossed the finish line, we’ve already held constructive talks with Canada and have a framework in place with the United Kingdom. Negotiations continue with countries like India and Japan, who I originally expected would be among the first to reach agreements.

    But the biggest surprise came this weekend, when, after barely two days of negotiations, the United States and China appear to have agreed on a framework for a trade deal. To quote Agent Paul Smecker: “CNBC, we’ll start the ass kissing with you.”

    Like everyone else, I assumed China would be the toughest nut to crack and the last to make a deal—not only because they’re seasoned negotiators, but also because they represent a massive portion of America’s imports. And trust me, I was just as skeptical as anyone about the Trump administration’s Sunday claim that things were going well—until I saw Chinese officials echo those very same sentiments.

    While a finalized deal isn’t 100% complete yet, both sides have come forward with statements that can only be described as optimistic.

    At this point, it’s hard to deny that tangible progress has been made.

    This, of course, is great news for the stock market, which will likely rally on Monday. One of the biggest market unknowns has been partially resolved, and nothing ignites the animal spirits of the market like a major geopolitical win.

    But beyond that, it’s simply a deliciously prompt resolution to a problem the media insisted would be a long-term economic catastrophe.

    All I said a month ago was “hold on and let’s see what happens.” And here we are, a mere month later—without any meaningful shortages or real discomfort in our daily lives—and the “problem” is well on its way to being solved.

    Oh, and did I mention that with every new deal we strike, the United States is in a stronger position than it was just two months ago?

    Sure, there will always be cynics and skeptics who want to argue the ins and outs of these deals, pointing to data that suggests only minuscule gains for the U.S. or marginal concessions from foreign nations. But the simple fact is the posture this gives the United States—and President Trump—on the global stage is one of leverage, power, and respect.

    Let the cynics fill in whatever narrative suits their agenda. But for better or worse, Trump’s administration went to bat for the United States and brought home better deals than we had just a month ago. If you want to argue the minutiae of how much better these deals are, go ahead.

    I’ll be too busy savoring the sweet, intoxicating catnip of the mainstream media’s buffoonery from a month ago.

    As I’ve said many times before, I still believe the stock market is overvalued—and with this week’s rally, it will remain so. I made that case clearly in my market review earlier this month, which you can read here:

     May 2025 Market Review

    Trading The Sh*t Show: May 2025 Market Review

    But the real lesson here is this: The next time the mainstream financial media is in full-blown financial panic mode, hold your head high, keep your cool, and remind yourself that compared to them, you’re the institutional investor in the room.

    And if you do that, you might just find yourself standing calmly amidst the chaos… right in the middle of a money-making opportunity.

    QTR’s Disclaimer: Please read my full legal disclaimer on my About page hereThis post represents my opinions only. In addition, please understand I am an idiot and often get things wrong and lose money. I may own or transact in any names mentioned in this piece at any time without warning. Contributor posts and aggregated posts have been hand selected by me, have not been fact checked and are the opinions of their authors. They are either submitted to QTR by their author, reprinted under a Creative Commons license with my best effort to uphold what the license asks, or with the permission of the author.

    This is not a recommendation to buy or sell any stocks or securities, just my opinions. I often lose money on positions I trade/invest in. I may add any name mentioned in this article and sell any name mentioned in this piece at any time, without further warning. None of this is a solicitation to buy or sell securities. I may or may not own names I write about and are watching. Sometimes I’m bullish without owning things, sometimes I’m bearish and do own things. Just assume my positions could be exactly the opposite of what you think they are just in case. If I’m long I could quickly be short and vice versa. I won’t update my positions. All positions can change immediately as soon as I publish this, with or without notice and at any point I can be long, short or neutral on any position. You are on your own. Do not make decisions based on my blog. I exist on the fringe. The publisher does not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information provided in this page. These are not the opinions of any of my employers, partners, or associates. I did my best to be honest about my disclosures but can’t guarantee I am right; I write these posts after a couple beers sometimes. I edit after my posts are published because I’m impatient and lazy, so if you see a typo, check back in a half hour. Also, I just straight up get shit wrong a lot. I mention it twice because it’s that important.

    Tyler Durden Mon, 05/12/2025 - 13:10
  39. Site: Mises Institute
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Matthew Williams
    Ours in an age when people panic, sometimes for good reasons but often for bad. Governments benefit from panicked citizenry, which is why we always should question those political decisions that can turn our lives upside down.
  40. Site: RT - News
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: RT

    The US president mentioned the possibility of taking part in the Moscow-proposed talks himself

    US President Donald Trump has reiterated his hopes that direct talks between Moscow and Kiev as proposed by Russian President Vladimir Putin will take place and suggested he could even take part in them.

    Trump delivered the remarks during a press conference on Monday, describing the proposed meeting in Istanbul, Türkiye, as “very important.” He even floated the possibility that he might participate in the negotiations.

    “I think you may have a good result at the Thursday meeting in Türkiye between Russia and Ukraine. I believe the two leaders are going to be there. I was thinking about flying over. I don’t know where I’m going to be on Thursday, I’ve got so many meetings, but I was thinking about actually flying over there,” Trump stated.

    The suggestion was swiftly welcomed by Ukraine’s leader, Vladimir Zelensky, who called it a “right idea” that could “change a lot.”

    Read more FILE PHOTO. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam in Hanoi. Vietnam welcomes proposed Ukraine peace talks

    Early on Sunday, Putin proposed resuming direct peace negotiations with Kiev without any preconditions, stating that the talks could ultimately yield “some kind of new truce” and a ceasefire. “We are set on serious negotiations with Ukraine. Their aim is to eliminate the root causes of the conflict and to achieve a long-term lasting peace for a historical perspective,” the president stressed.

    The proposal received a mixed reaction from Kiev and its Western backers, all of whom reiterated their demand to establish a 30-day truce before beginning any negotiations. Trump, however, urged Kiev to “immediately” accept the proposal and engage in talks.

    It was not immediately clear on what basis Trump concluded that the Russian and Ukrainian leaders would be meeting on Thursday. After Trump urged Ukraine to agree to the proposal, Zelensky claimed he would be waiting for Putin in Türkiye “personally” but reiterated the 30-day ceasefire demand.

    On Monday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reiterated Moscow’s position that Russia remains committed to “resuming direct talks in Istanbul without any preconditions” but did not comment on the prospect of Putin participating in the talks.

  41. Site: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
    1 week 3 days ago

    Alex Schadenberg
    Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

    Dr Lydia Dugdale
    Dr. L.S. Dugdale who is a physician and an ethicist at Columbia University and the author of the book: “The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom.” wrote an excellent commentary that was published in the New York Times on May 11, 2025.

    Dugdale begins her article by providing insight into some of the problems with modern medicine. She then writes:

    Given my views, you might expect that I would celebrate the Medical Aid in Dying Act recently passed by the New York State Assembly and now awaiting action in the New York State Senate. But this bill, like similar legislation that facilitates dying in places such as Oregon and Canada, is not about dying well. It is about relieving society — government, medical systems, even families — of the responsibility to care for those who need the most help: the mentally ill, the poor, the physically disabled.Dugdale points out that the New York bill defines assisted suicide as "aid in dying" and as a medical practice.

    The New York bill defines “aid in dying” as a medical practice. If a patient qualifies, a doctor can prescribe a lethal dose of drugs that the patient may self-administer to end his or her life. Labelling this a medical practice confers a kind of legitimacy on what is also called, more accurately, physician-assisted suicide. Dugdale explains that the New York bill does not require a mental health assessment to protect depressed people from assisted suicide. In Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal, only 3 out of 607 people who received a prescription for lethal assisted suicide poison, received a mental health assessment.

    Dugdale points out that the New York assisted suicide bill does not allow assisted suicide for people based on disability alone and then states:

    In this light, to claim that people with disabilities are protected by the New York bill is disingenuous. The bill may prevent them from qualifying for assisted suicide solely because of their disabilities, but disability can become a terminal condition by choice — or despair.

    Dugdale then points to the Canadian experience with euthanasia by writing:

    Here, the experience of Canada, which since 2016 has allowed eligible adults to request medical assistance in dying, is worrisome. In 2023, 432 Canadians who received assisted suicide said they required but did not receive disability support services. More disturbing still, nearly half of the non-terminal patients who received assisted suicide did so at least in part because of loneliness. One man sought assisted death as a result of homelessness, then changed his mind after a GoFundMe campaign helped him find shelter. What began as a right to die when death is “reasonably foreseeable” seems to have evolved into the possibility of a hastened death for almost any form of suffering.Dugdale concludes by reinforcing that assisted suicide is not a compassionate policy:This is not a compassionate policy — not in Canada, not in Oregon and not, should the bill become law, in New York. Instead of investing in the infrastructure of support for the lonely, the depressed, the disabled and the poor, we offer them a prescription for death. We call it autonomy, but it’s abandonment.More articles on this topic:

    • New York Post editorial board opposes assisted suicide. (Link).
    • Action is needed: New York state Assembly passes assisted suicide bill (Link).

  42. Site: LifeNews
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Steven Ertelt

    It was another record year for the abortion giant Planned Parenthood – killing more babies in abortions than ever before. Although Planned Parenthood bills itself as a woman’s health organization, in reality, it is little more than an abortion business.

    Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report, released today, shows the abortion business killed a record 402,230 babies in abortions in the past year, while generating over $2 billion in revenue.

    That’s a 2.42% increase in the number of babies Planned Parenthood killed in 2023-2024 than it did the prior year, when it killed 392,715 babies in abortions.

    SUPPORT LIFENEWS! If you want to help fight abortion, please donate to LifeNews.com!

    That’s over 1,102 babies killed in abortions every single day of the year or 46 dead babies every single hour. That’s in insane figure for Planned Parenthood, a company that claims its main focus is merely women’s health care. It’s a horrific number that is almost difficult to comprehend and far surpasses any genocide in human history.

    The figure is also higher than its previous annual report from two years ago, where it indicated it killed 374,155 babies in abortions. In 2019 the abortion giant killed 354,871 babies in abortions, showing that Planned Parenthood continues to kill more and more babies even as it does less and less legitimate health care.

    The report, labeled “disingenuous” by the watchdog group American Life League, fails to disclose data on abortion pill distribution, which may account for up to 80% of abortions in some states. The group argues the abortion numbers may be higher.

    Katie Brown Xavios, director of American Life League, criticized the report’s release just after Mother’s Day weekend, calling it “horrifically inappropriate.”

    She pointed to Planned Parenthood’s $792.2 million in federal funding as a reason to defund the organization.

    “Taxpayers are funding the lavish salaries of Planned Parenthood’s elite, with CEOs earning an average of $317,000 annually, in the 98th percentile of American wage earners,” Xavios said.

    Researcher Katherine Van Dyke emphasized the report’s omission of abortion pill numbers.

    “This hides the true extent of abortions, likely far exceeding the reported 402,230,” she said.

    Planned Parenthood’s reported $1.286 billion in “medical services” spending, nearly half funded by taxpayers, supported abortions, pushing sex education on children, and hormone distribution, according to American Life League. The group argues this justifies ending public funding for the organization.

    The abortion giant is also now in the hormone selling business, exploiting children to push deadly and improper drugs on them.

    The post Planned Parenthood Makes Over $2 Billion Killing a Record 402,000 Babies in Abortions appeared first on LifeNews.com.

  43. Site: RT - News
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: RT

    A Moscow court has handed Pyotr Vrublevsky a six-year prison sentence in absentia

    A Moscow court has sentenced a former Ukrainian ambassador to Kazakhstan, Pyotr Vrublevsky, to six years in prison in absentia over his call for the mass killing of Russians.

    Vrublevsky was found guilty of committing “acts aimed at inciting hatred and enmity” against a group of people “based on nationality…with the threat of violence,” according to the Basmanny District Court's press service.

    The charges stem from an August 2022 interview in which Vrublevsky stated that Ukraine was trying to “kill as many Russians as possible.”

    “The more Russians we kill now, the fewer our children will have to,” the diplomat told a local blogger in Kazakhstan six months after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict.

    Read more  Maria Zakharova, Director, Department of Information and the Press, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Ukraine exhibiting ‘classic terrorist behavior’ – Russian Foreign Ministry

    His remarks sparked outrage both among the Russian community in the Central Asian country and in Russia. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram at the time that “only an ambassador of a terrorist regime can say such things.”

    Kazakh officials condemned his words as incitement of ethnic hatred and inappropriate for a diplomat. In September 2022, Astana stated that Vrublevsky had apologized for his remarks and subsequently went on vacation.

    READ MORE: Putin proposes unconditional peace talks with Ukraine (FULL SPEECH)

    Last year, Russian authorities issued an arrest warrant for Vrublevsky, placing him on both federal and international wanted lists, as well as adding him to the country’s registry of terrorists and extremists.

    The ruling on Monday effectively upholds a similar decision made by a Moscow court last August that was subsequently overturned by a higher court due to irregularities. The case was then sent to be reviewed again.  

    Vrublevsky was fired from his post in Kazakhstan in October 2022. His whereabouts are currently unknown as he has not made any public appearances since his dismissal.

  44. Site: RT - News
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: RT

    US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has mandated that admission be based strictly on merit

    US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a directive ordering all military service academies to stop considering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) criteria in admissions decisions.

    The memo, signed on Friday, states that MSA admission offices will no longer be able to apply any “considerations of race, ethnicity or sex” when considering applicants and must base their decisions “exclusively on merit.”

    Academies have 30 days to adhere to the new standards.

    Additionally, merit-based scores may also consider “unique athletic talent” or other experiences such as prior military service and performance at a MSA preparatory school.

    “This ensures only the most qualified candidates are admitted, trained and ultimately commissioned to lead,” Hegseth wrote in the order, adding that “selecting anyone but the best erodes lethality, our warfighting readiness and undercuts the culture of excellence in our Armed Forces.”

    In a separate memo issued on Friday and seen by the Associated Press, Hegseth also ordered military leaders and commanders at the Pentagon to go through their libraries and remove all books related to DEI issues.

    Read more RT US court blocks DEI-related intel terminations

    The document reportedly stated that educational materials at libraries “promoting divisive concepts and gender ideology are incompatible with the Department’s core mission” and that military leaders must “promptly identify” books that are not compatible with that mission and sequester them by May 21.

    The reforms follow a broader campaign by the administration of President Donald Trump to remove DEI-related programs and content from the military, including books in military libraries and instruction on gender ideology.

    Shortly after assuming office in January, Trump signed an executive order titled ‘Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness’, which prohibited any race- or sex-based preferences in the armed forces. That order similarly called for all military personnel decisions, including recruitment and promotions, to reflect a merit-based framework.

    The directive also outright banned transgender individuals from serving in the US military and instructed the Department of Defense to identify and dismiss all service members who have a history of gender dysphoria. Last week, the US Supreme Court upheld the president’s ban.

  45. Site: RT - News
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: RT

    Kiev’s potential membership in the bloc would escalate the conflict, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned

    Admitting Ukraine into the EU would only prolong the hostilities between Moscow and Kiev and risk dragging the bloc into the conflict, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned.

    Ukraine, which has made EU membership a national priority, formally applied to join the bloc in February 2022, days after the escalation of the conflict with Russia. Hungary has repeatedly pushed back against the EU’s goal of admitting Ukraine by 2030 – a target recently reiterated by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

    On Monday, Orban reiterated Budapest’s opposition to accession, calling it a decision that could shape the bloc’s future for the worse.

    “As a country neighboring Ukraine, we believe that if Ukraine is admitted to the European Union, it will mean war,” Orban told the conference of EU parliamentary speakers in Budapest. The EU has never accepted a country at war – and for “good reason,” he added.

    The Hungarian leader also expressed regret over the commitment of some EU leaders to continued military aid for Kiev.

    “We have a different view. We think the longer the war lasts, the more lives will be lost and the worse the situation will become on the battlefield,” Orban said.

    Ukraine still faces major hurdles on its path to joining the bloc, with full membership requiring unanimous EU approval and sweeping reforms, including anti-corruption efforts, improved governance, and legal alignment with EU standards.

    Read more The President of the European Commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen Von der Leyen calls on EU to speed up Ukrainian entry

    Orban has long opposed Ukraine’s integration into Western institutions, including NATO, arguing that its accession could escalate tensions with Russia. He suggested that the country should instead remain a “buffer” between Russia and the West.

    While Russia has consistently rejected the idea of Ukraine joining NATO, its position on EU accession has been more restrained. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Ukraine has the “sovereign right” to join the bloc, provided that it remains a matter of economic integration and not military alignment.

    However, Russian officials have warned that the line between civilian and military in the EU is becoming blurred. Peskov has accused the bloc of actively working to prolong the Ukraine conflict by repeatedly expressing its intention to support Kiev in its desire to “continue the war.” He has also criticized Brussels for undermining peace efforts by portraying Russia as the bloc’s primary adversary.

    Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated that the EU is “becoming militarized at a record pace,” adding that there is now “very little difference” between the EU and NATO.

  46. Site: Mundabor's blog
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Mundabor
    I do remember those days very well, the first days after the election of Pope Evil Clown. I had read the horrible news coming from Argentina. However, I thought it as my duty to give the new Pope the benefit of the doubt; firstly, because the Catholic blogosphere tends to be more than a tad […]
  47. Site: Euthanasia Prevention Coalition
    1 week 3 days ago

    Attend the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition and Euthanasia Resistance BC event - May 26 @ 6:30 pm

    Opposing Euthanasia in Canada: Looking to the Future with Hope featuring key note speaker: Alex Schadenberg, Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

    This event is open to the public but requires a free eventbrite registration (Registration Link)

    The event is at the: Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Junior Ballroom - 1000 Burrard Street Vancouver, BC on May 26 at 6:30 pm.

     

  48. Site: AsiaNews.it
    1 week 3 days ago
    The agreement reached in Geneva calls for a 90-day pause to record duties and counter-tariffs that took effect on 2 April, unsustainable for both economies. Now the real negotiations can begin, which, however, must deal with political 'red lines'.
  49. Site: southern orders
    1 week 3 days ago


    Let me use my clairvoyance about Pope Leo XIV:

    He will refine Pope Francis manner of synodality not cancel it.

    He will refine Pope Francis TC to make it a refined SP, not cancel it.

    He will refine all the charitable works of the Holy See and praise Pope Francis outreach and welcome of the poor and marginalized, not cancel it.

    He will refine Pope Francis migrant outreach with nuance about the right to legal migration and not cancel it.

    He will refine the new Mass, not cancel it.


  50. Site: non veni pacem
    1 week 3 days ago
    Author: Mark Docherty

    by Jaime Gurpegui | May 5, 2025

    Rome. The Eternal City is buzzing with anticipation these days ahead of the conclave. The corridors, cafes, and restaurants near the Vatican are a hive of activity with cardinals, journalists, clerics, and opinion-makers of all stripes. We, too, have been strolling through the city, encountering quite a few familiar faces.

    But if there’s one meeting we won’t forget, it was this afternoon. Walking around the outskirts of Borgo Pio, I met none other than the Jesuit James Martin and the British native Austin Ivereigh, two of the greatest enthusiasts of Francis’s pontificate and tireless defenders of the synodal line, inclusive and conciliatory… at least on paper.

    Upon seeing them, my friend and companion on this trip wanted to greet them, and we introduced ourselves: “We’re from InfoVaticana.” The reaction was instantaneous and, frankly, revealing. James Martin, the author of “Building Bridges,” that book that boasts of building bridges between the Church and the peripheries, chose to turn away and turn his back on us without saying a word. No dialogue, no bridges, no greeting. A pure wall. How significant. We must not be their type.

    Austin Ivereigh, for his part, did speak to us… although perhaps he would have preferred not to. Visibly annoyed—and increasingly so as the conversation progressed—he stood up, approached us, and vehemently reproached us for the “campaign” we, according to him, were waging against Cardinal Robert Prevost. “The campaign you’re waging against Prevost is very interesting,” he said, his tone a mixture of anger and frustration.

    When we replied, “No, not against Prevost; against the culture of cover-up in the Church, which you’re now in favor of?” the discomfort was palpable. Nervous, Ivereigh mentioned a Sodalitium as the supposed source of the information, and when we explained that there are many cases, all documented, he insisted, ironically, that InfoVaticana “always has more,” referring to the documents we’ve been publishing on the case. His reaction left no room for doubt: Prevost was their man, the candidate on whom they had pinned all their hopes.

    The scene couldn’t have been more illustrative. Just hours before the conclave begins, the coup plotters are nervous. And not because someone is defaming Prevost, but because the truth is coming out. Because the documents, the testimonies, and the omissions are there, documented and published. And more are coming.

    It’s revealing: the same environment that demands synodality, transparency, and bridges of dialogue cannot bear to shed light on the dark sides of its protégés. For some, the culture of concealment is not a past to be overcome, but a strategy they still try to maintain.

    At InfoVaticana, we will continue doing what we’ve always done: telling what others prefer to keep quiet. Because if today’s meeting has demonstrated anything, it’s that there are those who fear, and are very much so, that we will continue to tell more.

    https://infovaticana.com/2025/05/05/cronica-romana-un-encuentro-con-james-martin-y-austin-ivereigh-que-delata-su-candidato-a-papa/

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