Last Thursday, appearing on the state TV program 60 Minutes, the Americanist Malek Dudakov said, “Trump will create many problems for the Europeans, not to mention that he will unload the expenditures for the Ukrainian project upon them. Let us wish success to both sides of the conflict.”

Ironically, a 2022 report by the Danish Security and Intelligence Service accused Russia of forging a letter purporting to be from Greenland’s foreign minister to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). The letter falsely claimed, “Our government is going to overcome all legal and political barriers... and to organize the referendum on independence of Greenland from Denmark as fast as possible.” In response, the Arkansas Republican boasted of being the one to float the idea of buying Greenland to Trump.

The goal of the forged document might have been to create a rift between NATO allies, but since Trump is enamored with the idea of taking over Greenland, Moscow’s initial plot might spectacularly backfire.

US diplomats may have been targeted by Russian sonic weaponry, say the Insider, Der Spiegel and CBS’s 60 Minutes

After long denying the possibility, some intelligence agencies are no longer willing to rule out a mystery weapon.

Canadians flocked to food banks and inequality rose as corporations profited under Trudeau. He wasn’t “far to the left.”…

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New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

The “Talker” above could make scientific history within the next year. It is the communication device a nonverbal autistic girl used when she was originally suspected to be telepathic. I saw her independently type her answers into this  “Talker,” without any touch, in three homemade videos from August, 2013. She developed a dependency upon having […]

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Within the first 12 months of Brexit immigration rules (up to December 2021), net migration jumped to 484,000; higher than any level in the past decade.

This trajectory has largely increased; revised government figures for the year ending June 2023 show record-breaking levels of net migration at 906,000 people.

In the four years before Brexit, net migration was higher from EU countries than non-EU countries.

Since 2019, data shows that the majority of net migration to the UK comes from non-EU countries; with figures at 662,000 in 2023 alone.

In fact, since 2021 when Brexit rules came into effect, net migration from the EU has been negative; meaning that more EU nationals are leaving the UK than coming to stay.

Brexit arguably had the intended effect of curbing EU migration. But the broader migration picture has simultaneously ballooned.

The top countries for non-EU immigration are India, Nigeria, Pakistan, China and Zimbabwe, according to the latest ONS figures.

"Such recalcitrance inevitably creates the impression that the investigators have something to hide and thus damages the credibility of the research."

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OpenAI and Microsoft have a secret definition for “AGI,” an acronym for artificial general intelligence, or any system that can outperform humans at most tasks. According to leaked documents obtained by The Information, the two companies came to agree in 2023 that AGI will be achieved once OpenAI has developed an AI system that can generate at least $100 billion in profits.

The decision not to prosecute Gaetz is legally defensible, at least judging by the former prosecutors willing to defend it and congressional investigators’ admission that the evidence they managed to obtain — without much help from the Department of Justice — would likely not be enough to convict Gaetz, at least on a charge of sex trafficking a child. But it’s also true that Gaetz could have been charged, too: Greenberg was, after all, and Gaetz likewise could be argued to have acted “in reckless disregard of the fact” that the girl with whom he was engaging in a “commercial sex act” could have been a minor.

“They know he paid me to pay the girls and that he and I both had sex with the girl who was underage,” Greenberg wrote in December 2020, The Daily Beast reported

Then economists began analyzing what actually happened when the minimum wage was raised. Since the early 1990s, economists have conducted dozens of studies of more than 500 minimum-wage increases across the country. “The bulk of the studies conducted in the last 30 years suggest the effect of minimum wages on jobs is quite modest,” Arindrajit Dube, an economist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst who has conducted multiple meta-analyses of the minimum-wage literature, told me. “Sometimes they actually result in higher employment.”

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