Italy’s embattled Five Star Movement has warned Prime Minister Mario Draghi to keep a poverty relief program in place despite claims from business leaders that the “citizens’ income” program has been a drag on the country’s labor force. Italy’s “Annual Report 2022” said there are about 5.6 million Italian residents living in absolute poverty in...
Tag: July 12 2022
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PEARL HARBOR BOMBERS BOOSTING ITS MILITARY
Using the Ukraine War and rising tensions between China and Taiwan, Japan is taking a fresh look at building its military and its capabilities. The Trends Journal has reported on how the conflict in Ukraine has prompted other countries—from Germany to Taiwan—to reconsider their defenses. (See “WILL CHINA SOON INVADE TAIWAN?” “SPOTLIGHT CHINA: EAST VS. WEST,” and “JAPAN:...
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WHAT UKRAINE WON’T DO: RWANDA AND CONGO CALL FOR CEASEFIRE
While Ukraine has stated that it will not accept a ceasefire with Russia and the United States and NATO won’t either, over in Africa, a ceasefire agreement was put in place between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo last week as tensions run high between the two countries with a long history of bloody...
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HUNDREDS KILLED AS ETHNIC VIOLENCE INTENSIFIES IN WAR-TORN ETHIOPIA
Hundreds of people were killed in Ethiopia’s Oromia region last week in what was seen as the latest flash of ethnic violence. The Trends Journal has long documented the ongoing conflict in Tigray. (See “ETHIOPIA UPDATE: TIGRAY FORCES RETAKE CAPITAL CITY,” “ETHIOPIA’S WAR: DEATHS OF AT LEAST 2000 TIGRAY CHILDREN NOT ‘NEWS’…ONLY UKRAINE VICTIMS COUNT,” and “ETHIOPIA...
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BIG JOKE: U.S. AND U.K. SECURITY HEADS WARNS OF CHINA’S SPYING
The head of the FBI and Britain’s M15 held a joint press conference last week to talk about the rising threat of Chinese spying amid tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and threats to Taiwan. Christopher Wray, the FBI head, and Ken McCallum, the British spy head, told reporters in London that Beijing has been...
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ZELENSKY BLINDED BY TRENDS JOURNAL COVER: VOWS NOT TO GIVE UP AN INCH OF TERRITORY TO RUSSIA
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview last week that Kyiv is not willing to cede any land to Russia when it comes to finding a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Last week, The Trends Journal ran a cover titled, “THE BIG LIE: Russia Will Lose!”, that noted ongoing reports in the West by...
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NUCLEAR WAR: MELT, BURN AND FREEZE
As we keep noting, World War III has begun. So, following the melting down from the nuclear blast and burning to death, researchers conducted a study to examine what a nuclear war with Russia could look like and found that an exchange of about 4,400 100-kiloton warheads would likely result in a “little ice age.”...
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PUTIN WARNS OF ‘CATASTROPHIC CONSEQUENCES’ TO GLOBAL ENERGY MARKET IF FURTHER SANCTIONS ARE IMPOSED
Western countries, led by the U.S., have imposed a historic amount of sanctions on Russia after its decision to invade Ukraine, which have inflicted serious pain on all parties involved. The Trends Journal reported last week that the latest arrow in the West’s quiver would be to impose a price cap on Russian oil, which...
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NOT A PROXY WAR: U.S. AT WAR WITH RUSSIA, PENTAGON WILL PROVIDE UKRAINE MILITARY AID FOR ‘YEARS’
Having sent some $56 billion to Ukraine since the war began on 24 February, the Biden administration has repeatedly promised it would do all it can to prop up the Ukrainian government and essentially fund its war with Russia until Russia is defeated and President Volodymyr Zelensky decides it is time to negotiate. Despite the...
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
NY TIMES TRIES TO REHABILITATE GOVT DISINFORMATION BOARD Poor NY Times. They were so close to being a disinfo paper of record. It was not to be, as the Biden Administration’s Disinfo Governance Board went down in flames this spring. A 6 July article tried to spin the failed initiative as a victim of the...