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[ad_1] “History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.” – Jean Baudrillard, The Agony of Power Put yourself behind the wheel of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero’s white Kia. You’re 25-years-old. You’ve been living in the United States for three years. You’ve played by the rules, as you understand them. You haven’t made trouble for anyone. You haven’t broken the law. You’ve tried to settle in. You came to Maine from Colombia looking for a safer and fuller life for yourself, for your wife and your infant daughter, the girl you called your “little princess.”…

[ad_1] Political scientist Anna O. Law is one of the leading experts on the history and development of American immigration policy…. Her new book builds on her previous scholarship and that of others to bring together three interlinked topics that are usually considered separately: the development of immigration law and policy in the early republic, policies on slavery and internal migration, and policy towards Native Americans. Law makes the by-now familiar point that, during the first century of American history, power over international migration overwhelmingly resided in the hands of state governments, rather than the federal government. In a more…

[ad_1] Every 60 years, the Chinese Zodiac delivers the Fire Horse, a period characterized by risk-taking, ambition, massive changes, and intense energy. An important period for those with the eyes to see what is happening to the systems, and the capital to deploy during pivotal times. Catherine Austin Fitts has been following the missing money, fighting for cash, opposing digital fiat, and warning of the tokenization of everything for years. Solari Report readers have been ahead of the curve with this transition, but most will be caught unaware of the massive changes that are barreling towards society. Hypocrazy Audiobook: https://amzn.to/4aogwms The…

[ad_1] Trump’s address promised ‘really big news’ and delivered a distraction. What Americans actually needed was a plan for the economy and the Iran war. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] In one of his day-one acts, President Donald Trump ordered all executive branch agencies to “terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis,” barring individual exemptions. Despite that, a new report found that one department’s office spaces are “significantly underutilized,” and it’s costing taxpayers a fortune. “The Department of Transportation (DOT) and its component agencies areunderutilizing their office space department-wide,” according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The Utilizing Space Efficiently and Improving Technologies (USE IT) Act, passed in 2023, set a required minimum 60 percent…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: MichaelEmilio – CC BY 4.0 Norway stunned football royalty Brazil in the World Cup. Instead of dancing, posing or pounding their chests, every player sat down on the pitch and rowed in synchrony with their fans in the stands. “The Vikings took in their sails, put out their oars and rowed ashore before battle. So it fits perfectly with the national team—we’re going into battle,” said Ole Frøystad, “Mr. Row, Row” who invented the gesture. The nation of 5.6 million used the Viking gesture of rowing together to celebrate in what seemed the perfect image. “Everyone is…

[ad_1] The U.S. bombed Iran for the sixth consecutive night and Iran retaliated with strikes on U.S. bases and energy targets in the region, as the Iran War entered its 140th day on Friday. CENTCOM claimed it struck military targets and that its strikes were aimed at “degrading Iranian military capabilities and holding Iran accountable for recent attacks on commercial shipping.” Iranian media cited by the Financial Times reported that U.S. strikes hit civilian infrastructure, including six bridges in a southern port, a railway, and an airport. An Iranian energy official reported power outages throughout Bandar Abbas, a port city…

[ad_1] In Germany, an artist and activist was arrested multiple times, once for wearing a Palestinian flag and again for holding a sign that read “from the river to the sea, we demand equality.” In France, a mayor was held criminally liable, not for what he said, but for failing to remove Islamophobic comments posted by others beneath one of his Facebook posts. In Finland, a member of Parliament faced criminal charges for criticizing her church’s support for gay pride events, citing a Bible verse. Such cases are not exceptional among European Union member states. In many places, they are…

[ad_1] Damning evidence has shown how British SAS drew up “kill lists,” sometimes executing unarmed Afghans in their beds, and killing “for fun,” reports Richard Norton-Taylor. UK’s Talisman suite of vehicles in convoy to Forward Operating Base Khar Nikha in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, March, 2012.  (Sgt. Wes Calder RLC/UK MOD,Wikimedia Commons/ OGL v1.0,) By Richard Norton-TaylorDeclassified UK Damning evidence of the culture of Britain’s special forces, from their training camps in Herefordshire to the battlefields of Afghanistan, was released on Tuesday. It was disclosed by the judge-led inquiry set up in the wake of detailed reports of unarmed civilians executed in…

[ad_1] Former AG Ashcroft ripped apart Democrats’ narrative that the Trump administration is using the Justice Department to prosecute [ad_2] Source link