Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:14 p.m. No.23025859   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Netanyahu trial testimony ends early due to diplomatic developments

 

At the start of the hearing, lead defense attorney Amit Hadad requested that, due to the weighty diplomatic happenings, the hearing be cut short.

 

The criminal trial testimony hearing of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began as scheduled on Monday morning, still in the stage of defense questioning before cross-examination, but as he is questioned by the defense lawyers of other defendants listed in the indictment.

 

The testimony ended at 11:15, ahead of the release of hostage Edan Alexander, in a deal brokered between the Americans and Hamas. Besides Alexander, 58 hostages remain in Hamas captivity.

 

At the start of the hearing, lead defense attorney Amit Hadad requested that due to the weighty diplomatic happenings - including the visit of Steve Witkoff, the Trump administration’s Middle East envoy, to Israel - that the hearing be cut short, as well due to the fact that Netanyahu “slept only one-and-a-half hours last night” due to the developments.

 

These defense hearings will take place for approximately another two weeks and are part of the defense’s questioning stage. After it ends, the prosecution will begin its own cross-examination questioning of Netanyahu.

 

The attorneys for Shaul and Iris Elovich and Arnon “Noni” Mozes will question Netanyahu - the primary defendant - on behalf of their clients, in two of the three cases levied against the prime minister.

 

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-853701

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:15 p.m. No.23025864   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6174 >>6388 >>6435 >>6567

Whistleblowers say human trafficking hotline operator failed to report tips to law enforcement

 

Senator Chuck Grassley is scrutinizing the multi-million dollar grant for Polaris Project to run the hotline after learning of the whistleblowers' allegations.

 

The Polaris Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that administers the National Human Trafficking Hotline, regularly fails to refer tips to law enforcement for investigation, whistleblowers told the Senate Judiciary Committee, confirming an earlier complaint from a bipartisan group of state attorneys general. The Polaris Project in 2023 received $4,831,020 in government grants, according to the charity's IRS filings.

 

The National Human Trafficking Hotline says that it is supported by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of a financial assistance award totaling $5 million annually.

 

In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, whose agency oversees Polaris' use of ACF funding, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley presented the evidence turned over to Congress by an anonymous employee of Polaris and detailed the allegations.

 

The whistleblowers' disclosures, Grassley wrote, “appear to confirm the allegations that Polaris is not reporting instances of potential human trafficking to law enforcement.”

 

Neither Project Polaris nor the Health and Human Services department responded to requests for comment from Just the News.

 

Reports of sex trafficking stamped "Work not required"

“As you are aware, Polaris has received millions in taxpayer dollars to run this hotline, and if the grant is renewed, will receive an additional $9 million in funding,” Grassley wrote. “It’s imperative that HHS ensures the hotline is running efficiently and effectively to protect the countless victims of human trafficking.”

 

The evidence published by Senator Grassley shows Polaris received a report of a “possible [sex trafficking (ST)] situation” in March 2025. The nonprofit’s staff marked the case “Yes” for the involvement of potential minors and determined the case had “high indicators” of trafficking, according to Grassley's review of the case file. The tip also reported that the alleged victim was worried “[s]he’s going to be physically hurt by the pimp running this company,” and indicated the alleged trafficker forces other women to work for him or her.

 

Despite the seriousness of the allegations, the case file shows a Polaris staff member reviewed the report and labeled the file “Work Not Required.” The first whistleblower said this designation means the case was closed, and law enforcement was not notified, Grassley wrote.

 

A second whistleblower reported to the committee a separate February 2025 tip alleging a victim and her minor sister were being held by two potential traffickers in the United States. However, the potential victim stopped communicating because of “safety concerns,” the records show. Polaris workers labeled the case “Work Not Required” and described the status as “unclear situation as [potential victim (PV)] stopped responding.”

 

As in the other case, the designation meant that Polaris did not report the possible trafficking incident to law enforcement and no further action was taken.

 

You can read Grassley’s letter, along with whistleblower information and evidence, below:

 

File

grassley_to_hhs_-_national_human_trafficking_hotline.pdf

Tristan Leavitt, President of Empower Oversight, the nonprofit group representing one whistleblower who remains anonymous, told the John Solomon Reports podcast on Friday that “it’s hard to say…whether it's simply a matter of being under resourced [or] whether it's just a matter of inattentiveness and laziness.”

 

https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/whistleblowers-say-human-trafficking-hotline-operator-failed-report

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:17 p.m. No.23025875   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5929 >>5996

Cops arrest 9 Jewish men for trying to smuggle sacrificial goat onto Temple Mount

 

Suspects nearly sneak baby goat in shopping bag into Jerusalem holy site for Second Passover sacrifice, but are foiled by police and Waqf officials who wrestle them back

 

Police arrested nine Jewish men who tried to smuggle a sacrificial goat onto the Temple Mount in Jerusalem Monday afternoon.

 

The group of young men were filmed in the Old City heading to one of the entrances to the Temple Mount compound with a baby goat concealed in a Rami Levy supermarket shopping bag.

 

Scuffles with police guarding the entrance broke out as the group tried to force its way into the compound.

 

One of the young men chanted the Shema prayer as police scrambled to block their entry, but some were able to slip by the officers, including the suspect with the goat.

 

Once inside the compound, the man carrying the kid fell to the ground in prostration, having cast the pink shopping bag aside.

 

He stood back up and then moments later was wrestled back by Waqf officials while he held the animal under one arm.

 

Others in the group were unable to make it through and began to brawl with a religious Muslim man outside the gate. One of the Jewish men shouted, “Who are you?” at the older man as a cop placed himself between the two.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1921868116478361859

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/cops-arrest-9-jewish-men-for-trying-to-smuggle-sacrificial-goat-onto-temple-mount/

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:20 p.m. No.23025889   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6174 >>6388 >>6435 >>6567

Witkoff said to tell hostage families Israel pointlessly extending war, US urging deal

 

Envoy’s reported disagreement with Israel’s plans adds to mounting reports of discord between Trump administration and Netanyahu’s government, which both sides have denied

 

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff recently told families of hostages held in Gaza that he disagrees with Israel’s approach to the war in the Strip, and believes reaching a new ceasefire and hostage release deal is the correct next step to take, a report said Sunday, as reports of the growing rift between the US and Israeli leaders mount.

 

According to Channel 12, Witkoff told the families that the US “wants to return the hostages, but Israel is not ready to end the war.”

 

“Israel is prolonging the war, even though we do not see where further progress can be made,” Witkoff said, according to the report, which cited sources who attended the meeting.

 

US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff outside the White House on March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff recently told families of hostages held in Gaza that he disagrees with Israel’s approach to the war in the Strip, and believes reaching a new ceasefire and hostage release deal is the correct next step to take, a report said Sunday, as reports of the growing rift between the US and Israeli leaders mount.

 

According to Channel 12, Witkoff told the families that the US “wants to return the hostages, but Israel is not ready to end the war.”

 

“Israel is prolonging the war, even though we do not see where further progress can be made,” Witkoff said, according to the report, which cited sources who attended the meeting.

 

 

 

“Still, there is currently a window of opportunity that we hope Israel and all the mediators will take advantage of. We are putting pressure on all the mediators and doing everything to return the hostages,” he reportedly said.

 

Channel 12 cited the families as saying they’ve not heard this kind of criticism of Israeli government policy from Witkoff in the past.

 

The report also quoted unnamed senior Israeli officials as issuing a warning: “If there are no agreements by the end of [US President Donald] Trump’s visit to the Middle East, Israel will launch a ground operation and it will take several weeks until the next ‘exit point.’ Once we have begun the intensified operation, we won’t agree to quickly halt it. Hamas will not determine the timeline.”

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/witkoff-said-to-tell-hostage-families-israel-pointlessly-extending-war-us-urging-deal/

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:23 p.m. No.23025903   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Trump revives funding to America's main regime change NGO

 

https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/1921598403135385835

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:25 p.m. No.23025910   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5927

As Gaza Starves, Israel Attacked UNRWA Food Distribution Center

 

Israel is targeting Palestinians’ slim means of accessing food, bombing two makeshift kitchens and UNRWA’s distribution center in Jabalia in the past few days

 

It was just after sunset on Friday when an Israeli missile slammed into an UNRWA building in the middle of Jabaliya refugee camp in north Gaza, killing four people—including a child, according to eyewitnesses—and severely damaging a food distribution center, warehouse, and health center run by the UN refugee agency.

 

“The entire area was destroyed and turned to rubble,” Al Moatassem Shalayel, 20, who had left the area moments before, told Drop Site. Shalayel’s 45-year-old uncle, Ehab Abu Hussein, was killed in the bombing. “We’re gathering his belongings, like his prayer beads and his cap. His body was torn apart, but we want to keep any memory of him.” Shalayel lost multiple family members over the course of the war. “I don’t have any uncles or aunts left now, only my grandmother,” he said.

 

Soon afterwards, the Israeli military spokesperson said they attacked Jabaliya using aerial surveillance and precision munitions.

 

“Everything was shut down and bombed. It’s all gone now, completely destroyed,” Shalayel added. “[Israel’s goal] is to starve and suffocate the people. Their aim is to keep us from eating or drinking. They just want to leave us hungry.”

 

The May 9 attack on the UN distribution center came as part of Israel’s scorched-earth bombing campaign that resumed in full force on March 18 following a brief “ceasefire.” Since then, Israel has targeted charity kitchens, displacement camps, schools, hospitals, so-called “humanitarian zones,” and other civilian gatherings on a regular basis. On Saturday alone, Israeli airstrikes bombed two tents used for preparing food in Khan Younis and Gaza City.

 

Over 2,700 Palestinians have been killed over the past seven weeks, including more than 900 children, according to the Gaza health ministry. The official death toll since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal assault is nearly 53,000, with many thousands more missing under the rubble.

 

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-unrwa-food-distribution-bombed-jabaliya-israel

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:26 p.m. No.23025913   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5916 >>6311

Israelis are afraid they only have two years left before the US-Israel special relationship comes to an end.

 

These comments were made during a panel discussion last week at the JNS International Policy Summit 2025 in Israel. (Second clip below.)

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1920819363549974875

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:26 p.m. No.23025916   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>23025913

 

JINSA head Michael Makovsky laments the rise of the "isolationist" wing of the Republican Party and warns that they could turn on Israel at any time.

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1920820365686636591

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:28 p.m. No.23025926   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6174 >>6196 >>6388 >>6435 >>6567

🚨 FIVE childhood vaccines ALL test positive for glyphosate

 

According to

@zenhoneycutt

, all five childhood vaccines she sent off to be tested came back POSITIVE for glyphosate, with the levels in the MMR vaccine being 25 times higher than the other vaccines.

 

As a reminder, glyphosate is a toxic chemical that has been shown to cause cancer — how is this legal?

 

Watch the whole interview with

@zenhoneycutt

on #CHDTV 👇

 

https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/trending-news-segments/get-the-toxins-out-zen-honeycutt/

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1921550863392542792

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:31 p.m. No.23025934   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Self-Described Pastor Indicted for Sex Trafficking and Forced Labor, and Charged with His Wife for Conspiracy to Commit Forced Labor

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/self-described-pastor-indicted-sex-trafficking-and-forced-labor-and-charged-his-wife

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:33 p.m. No.23025942   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Spike Proteins Are Being Found in Stroke Victims’ Brains Up to 17 Months After Being Vaxxed

 

A shocking new peer-reviewed study has exposed the lingering dangers of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, revealing that spike protein—the toxic byproduct of Pfizer and Moderna’s experimental shots—was found in the brains of stroke victims up to 17 months after vaccination. Published in the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, the research examined 19 hemorrhagic stroke cases from 2023 and 2024, discovering that 43.8% of victims still had vaccine-derived spike protein lodged in their cerebral arteries—all of them women.

 

This damning evidence shatters the CDC’s fraudulent claims that mRNA vaccines remain localized and quickly degrade. Instead, the study proves that spike protein persists in the body far longer than admitted, wreaking havoc on blood vessels and triggering catastrophic health failures.

 

Key points:

Spike protein from mRNA COVID-19 vaccines detected in stroke victims up to 17 months post-vaccination.

All affected patients were women, with spike protein found in cerebral arteries.

Study confirms vaccine-derived spike protein, not natural infection, was present.

Researchers warn of “significant concerns” over long-term vaccine safety.

Lipid nanoparticles may contribute to persistent spike protein circulation, increasing stroke risk.

Trump Administration still silent on disastrous COVID-19 vaccine program

The spike protein’s deadly persistence

The study, conducted by 10 Japanese researchers, found that in three patients, spike protein remained detectable 11, 12, and 17 months after vaccination—long after Big Pharma and government health agencies assured the public it would be gone.

 

Dr. Christof Plothe, a steering committee member of the World Council for Health, warned that these findings align with mounting reports of sex-specific vaccine injuries, including menstrual disruptions and myocarditis.

 

Karl Jablonowski, Ph.D., senior research scientist for Children’s Health Defense, called the persistence of spike protein “an exceptionally long-lasting vaccination effect”—one that could mean “the assault on the body may exist in perpetuity.”

 

A bioweapon hiding in plain sight

The study’s authors emphasized that lipid nanoparticles—the delivery system for mRNA—may be responsible for spreading spike protein throughout the body, including the brain. This contradicts the CDC’s propaganda that mRNA vaccines remain in the arm and produce only a “harmless” spike protein fragment.

 

https://basedunderground.com/2025/05/10/spike-proteins-are-being-found-in-stroke-victims-brains-up-to-17-months-after-being-vaxxed/

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096758682500195X

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:36 p.m. No.23025950   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>5958 >>5973 >>6071

One Major Controversy About Pam Bondi Will Make Gun Owners Very Concerned

 

Pam Bondi is proving to be a very controversial figure.

 

This is true even among conservatives.

 

Gun owners are going to be very concerned about this news.

 

After Colorado passed an extreme anti-gun bill that would make it one of the most hostile states in the nation to gun owners, conservatives in the state rushed into action.

 

They immediately hoped that Attorney General Pam Bondi would take action from the federal level to investigate the state and perhaps undo the damage that the bill caused.

 

But so far there has been no sign that she is actually going to do that, which is leaving gun owners in Colorado highly concerned.

 

Guns have clearly never been a top priority for Bondi, who has a very mixed track record dating back to her time as AG in Florida.

 

But she could at least throw a bone to gun owners by looking into this bill in Colorado and seeing if there’s anything she can do.

 

As of right now, however, there is no indication she is going to do that, and she might well leave the entire Second Amendment movement disappointed.

 

According to an article after Gov. Jared Polis signed the bill, “Colorado’s House Republicans are asking the federal government to review the constitutionality of a recently signed law requiring individuals to take a safety training course through Colorado Parks and Wildlife to be eligible to buy or sell semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, or handguns with detachable magazines.

 

“While Gov. Jared Polis signed the bill into law last week, it will not take effect until Aug. 1, 2026.”

 

So far, however, Bondi has not taken action against the bill, nor has she given any verbal indication that she’s going to do so any time soon.

 

Gun owners voted en masse for Donald Trump in the last election, and they certainly were hoping for more than this out of his administration.

 

The article continues, “Supporters have argued the bill would help prevent mass shootings, pointing to attacks in Colorado at the Aurora movie theater, Boulder King Soopers and Club Q in Colorado Springs, which they said were all carried out using semiautomatic weapons with detachable magazines.

 

“Opponents, including the gun rights advocacy group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, have countered that the bill further chips away at the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and forces the wildlife agency to handle responsibilities outside of its scope — without accomplishing its purported goal to stop violence.”

 

Bondi has not made it clear which side she agrees with, and in fact it seems that she just would rather have nothing to do with this debate at all.

 

She seems to have other top priorities besides the Second Amendment, and she is spending her time focusing on those, without taking any significant action on guns.

 

This is not going to be the news that gun owners want to hear, as they were hoping to have an administration that is 100% friendly to them, but Pam Bondi instead appears neutral at best.

 

https://gunpowdermagazine.com/one-major-controversy-about-pam-bondi-will-make-gun-owners-very-concerned/

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:41 p.m. No.23025965   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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."

 

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."

 

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/catherine-austin-fitts-we-know-that

 

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."

 

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."

 

https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/catherine-austin-fitts-we-know-that

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:43 p.m. No.23025969   🗄️.is 🔗kun

==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.

 

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

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:45 p.m. No.23025972   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Diddy Trial UPDATE: You WON'T BELIEVE Mr T Is Involved - YouTube

 

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

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2wFjKOSJvs&t=938s

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 12:49 p.m. No.23025981   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6174 >>6388 >>6435 >>6567

RFK Jr. Calls Out Big Pharma’s STRANGLEHOLD on the D.C. Swamp: ‘At Least One Lobbyist for EVERY Congressman, Senator, and Supreme Court Justice’

 

Robert Kennedy Jr.:

“Thank you, Mr. President. This is an extraordinary day. This is an issue that I grew up with in the Democratic Party, and every major Democratic leader for 20 years has been making this promise to the American people. This was the fulcrum of Bernie Sanders’ runs for the presidency—that he was going to eliminate or correct this discrepancy between Europe and the United States.

 

But as it turns out, none of them were doing it. It’s one of those promises that politicians make to their constituents, knowing that they’ll never have to fulfill it. The reason they’ll never have to do it is because they know that Congress is controlled, in so many ways, by the pharmaceutical industry.

 

There’s at least one pharmaceutical lobbyist for every Congressman, every Senator on Capitol Hill, and every member of the Supreme Court—by some estimates, even more. The pharmaceutical industry itself spends three times what the next largest lobbying sector spends on lobbying. So this was an issue that people talked about, but nobody wanted to do anything, because it was radioactive. They knew you couldn’t get it past Congress.

 

We now have a President who is a man of his word—who has the courage. President Trump was taking money from the pharmaceutical industry too. I think they gave you $100 million. But he can’t be bought, unlike most of the politicians in this country. And he is standing here for the American people.

 

I don’t know why there are writers like Elizabeth Warren or Robert Reich who are saying that President Trump is on the side of the oligarchs. There has never been a President more willing to stand up to the oligarchs than President Donald Trump.

 

I’m very, very proud of you, Mr. President, for your courage. I’ll say—because I don’t want to be crude—your intestinal fortitude, your stiff spine, and your willingness to stand up for the American people.

 

We have 4.2% of the world’s population. Our country represents 75% of the revenues for pharmaceutical companies. We spend in our country $1,126 per capita on drugs. In Britain, they spend about $240. They spend one-fifth of what we do. And this is true across Europe.

 

And the drug companies—even the European ones—if you ask them, it made no sense what they were saying: that America has to pay for this innovation.

 

It’s not going to happen. What President Trump is saying to our European partners is: you’ve got to raise the amount you’re paying for those drugs and pay your share of the innovation. The United States is no longer subsidizing that.

 

If the Europeans raise the price of their drugs by just 20%, that is $10 trillion that can be spent on innovation. The health of all people across the globe is going to improve because we’re going to have better products.

 

I’m just so grateful to be here today. I never thought this would happen in my lifetime. I have a couple of kids who are Democrats—big Bernie Sanders fans. When I told them this was going to happen, they had tears in their eyes because they thought, “This is never going to happen in our lifetime.”

 

We finally have a President who’s willing to stand up for the American people.”

 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1921938260739145923

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 2:48 p.m. No.23026312   🗄️.is 🔗kun

EU nastier than China – Trump

 

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.”

 

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.

 

https://www.rt.com/news/617438-trump-eu-nastier-than-china-trade/

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 2:53 p.m. No.23026320   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6388 >>6435 >>6567

Coincidence? Top Two MMR-Vaccinated States Lead In 2025 Measles Cases

 

Texas and New Mexico have had the sharpest increase in measles (MMR) vaccination so far in 2025 - they’ve also had the most measles cases.

 

Increased Vaccinations

Texas: From January 1 to March 16, 2025, Texas administered at least 173,000 doses of the measles vaccine, up from 158,000 during the same period in 2024—a roughly 9.5% increase.

 

New Mexico: According to the New Mexico Department of Health, between February 1 and March 31, 2025, 14,757 doses of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine were administered in New Mexico, compared to 8,162 during the same period in 2024—an 80.8% increase.

 

Increased Cases

Texas is the clear epicenter, with 709 cases reported as of early May, far surpassing any other state.

 

New Mexico has reported 71 confirmed measles cases, as of early May 2025, confirmed by the New Mexico Department of Health.

 

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/coincidence-top-two-mmr-vaccinated-states-lead-2025-measles-cases

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 3:07 p.m. No.23026364   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Israeli defense stocks plunge on Tel Aviv Exchange amid global de-escalation

 

Aris down 11%, NextVision 10%, Third Eye 10%; Israir drops 7.6%, El Al 1.7% as investors expect foreign airlines to resume Israel flights

 

The stocks of Israeli defense companies sharply fell Monday amid signs of easing geopolitical tensions, while pharmaceutical giant Teva also dropped following a major policy announcement by U.S. President Donald Trump, cutting drug prices.

 

Shares of Israeli defense firms, which have surged to record highs in recent months, plunged as investors reacted to a series of international developments that may reduce near-term demand for advanced military technologies. These include Trump’s visit to the Middle East, the reported end of hostilities between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, and an anticipated summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

 

Among the hardest hit: Aris Industries slid about 11%, NextVision dropped 10%, Aerodrome declined 9%, Third Eye fell 10% and Elbit Systems shed approximately 5.2%.

Travel and tourism stocks, which recently soared after international carriers canceled flights to Israel, also pulled back. Israir dropped 7.6% and El Al fell 1.7%, amid speculation that foreign airlines could soon resume service to the country.

The benchmark indices — TA-35, TA-90 and TA-125 — were all down less than 1%.

 

Teva's downturn follows a string of losses in recent days. The stock fell 4.8% on Sunday and another 6.3% on Friday on Wall Street. Analysts had attributed the earlier drops to profit-taking after the company posted strong earnings and announced plans to lay off nearly 3,000 employees.

Meanwhile, U.S. futures pointed sharply higher: Nasdaq futures surged nearly 4%, the S&P 500 gained 2.8%, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.2%. Gold prices fell 2.8% to $3,251 per ounce following the announcement of a preliminary U.S.–China tariff agreement, which was disclosed by the Biden administration Sunday and detailed further on Monday.

 

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/skokktkzee

Anonymous ID: ebfab0 May 12, 2025, 3:20 p.m. No.23026417   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>6435 >>6567

Trump Orders VA to Build Homeless Veterans Center on West LA Campus

 

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that aims to create a center for homeless veterans in Los Angeles and to improve medical care across the Department of Veterans Affairs.

 

The order calls for constructing a National Center for Warrior Independence on the campus of the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center that would provide housing and services to 3,000 homeless veterans currently in Los Angeles, with a goal to eventually home 6,000 veterans.

 

The West Los Angeles campus includes a 388-acre tract that was donated in 1888 to house disabled veterans. Its future was embroiled in ongoing litigation between advocates for homeless veterans and the federal government, which earns revenue from the property by leasing a portion of it to the UCLA baseball team, a private school and other private companies.

 

In the executive order, Trump said the property should have facilities to "help our veterans earn back their self-sufficiency," providing housing, substance abuse or addiction treatment and opportunities to "return to productive work and community engagement."

 

Trump required that a plan for the center be drafted within 120 days and that the center be able to house up to 6,000 veterans by Jan. 1, 2028.

 

"Our nation's security, prosperity and freedom would not be possible without our veterans. Many service members paid the ultimate sacrifice. Many others bear visible and invisible wounds from their service. Too many veterans are homeless in America. Each veteran deserves our gratitude," according to the text of Trump's executive order.

 

The order indicates a shift in the federal government's intentions for the property. A California appeals court heard arguments last month in an ongoing lawsuit by homeless advocates who seek to end the leases to private tenants and use the land for housing the homeless.

 

A judge previously had ruled last year that the VA must build 1,800 permanent housing units on the grounds, but the department appealed the decision.

 

The appellate court has not yet issued its decision, but in a statement Friday following the release of the executive order, VA Secretary Doug Collins said the leases constituted "decades of mismanagement."

 

"Today's executive order will enable us to ensure VA's West Los Angeles campus is being used as intended: to benefit veterans," Collins said.

 

Proponents who have fought for years to return the property, which includes a state-run home for elderly veterans, to veteran use, praised the executive order. Rob Reynolds, an Iraq War veteran and advocate for homeless veterans in LA, called the shift the "morally correct thing to do."

 

"There's no reason our veterans should be on the street and dying," Reynolds said during an interview Monday. "I think this is something that everybody, regardless of your political belief, should come together and go, 'OK, let's get our veterans off the street. Let's solve this problem.'"

 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/05/12/trump-orders-va-build-homeless-veterans-center-west-la-campus.html