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https://nordictimes.com/world/trump-facebook-is-enemy-of-the-people/

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Trump: Facebook an “enemy of the people”

Published March 14, 2024 – By Editorial staff
Donald Trump has a very negative view of both TikTok and Facebook.
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Donald Trump confirms that he sees Chinese TikTok as a national security threat - but that he is even more hostile to Facebook, which he considers a direct "enemy of the people".

The US Congress wants to ban TikTok, citing the media app's alleged links to the Communist Party of China. However, presidential candidate Donald Trump does not support a ban at this time - although he also believes that TikTok should be considered a "national security threat".

– I do believe it, and we have to very much admit we are protecting American people’s privacy and data rights.

Trump pointed out that he could have banned TikTok during his time as president, but instead chose to let Congress decide the issue.

– But as you know, I was at the point where I could have gotten it done if I wanted to. I should have said, you guys decide, you make that decision, because there are a lot of people who talk that love it (the TikTok app).

"Bad for the US"

However, his reason for opposing a ban today is that it risks increasing the dominance and growth of competitor Facebook - and Facebook is even more dangerous than TikTok, according to Trump.

– I consider Facebook to be an enemy of the people along with a lot of the media.

– I think Facebook has been very bad for our country, especially when it comes to elections, he continued, insinuating that Mark Zuckerberg had acted corruptly and potentially criminally in connection with the election, and that he is surprised that Facebook's founder and principal owner has not been sentenced to prison.

Parent company Meta Platform's shares fell by almost four percent on Monday, following Trump's statements.

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https://nordictimes.com/world/orban-poland-has-become-a-vassal-of-brussels/

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Orbán: Poland has become a vassal of Brussels

The globalist agenda

Published today 5:41 pm – By Editorial staff
Relations between Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (left) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán are becoming increasingly toxic.
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Relations between Viktor Orbán in Hungary and Donald Tusk in Poland are deepening into an open conflict over both EU influence and the war in Ukraine. Orbán argues that the Tusk problem goes far beyond bilateral disagreements — it's about Poland being given the role of Brussels' vassal state.

The Hungarian Prime Minister claims that Poland under Tusk has taken a dramatic step toward losing national autonomy and has also become a "vassal of Brussels".

"He has become one of the loudest warmongers in Europe – yet his war policy is failing: Ukraine is running out of European money, and the Polish people are tired of the war. He cannot change course because he has turned Poland into a vassal of Brussels", Orbán writes in a post on X.

Beyond the war in Ukraine, questions about the EU's role are also central to the conflict. Orbán has previously accused Brussels of playing an active role in helping Donald Tusk's EU-friendly government come to power in Poland.

Donald Tusk has in turn criticized Orbán for viewing "Brussels, democracy and a transparent rule of law are a problem", an attack that has further escalated tensions between the countries.

Shift in Polish public opinion

According to an opinion poll from the IBRiS institute, currently only 33.5 percent of Poles support Ukraine's NATO membership. This represents a shift that leads Orbán to claim that Europe is waking up, and that Polish public support for Ukraine is declining.

Donald Tusk, however, has declared the war in Ukraine as "our war", referring to the fact that the future of Poland and Europe is at stake. Orbán responds that both Poland and the EU are playing a dangerous game with the lives of millions of Europeans.

Hungary's repeated blocking of military support to Ukraine and its application for EU and NATO membership has long been a thorn in the side of Poland and other EU member states.

Poland and Hungary previously belonged to the so-called Visegrád Group (V4) and often shared positions against Brussels. But as the war in Ukraine progressed and major strategic dividing lines emerged, the relationship has become strained.

While Tusk strives to gain increased influence for Poland within the EU and NATO, Orbán has made it clear that he wants to see a different kind of European order — where nation-states have greater freedom and Brussels' central power is questioned.

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https://nordictimes.com/world/trump-and-xi-reach-trade-deal-promise-everlasting-peace-and-success/

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Trump and Xi reach trade deal – promise “everlasting peace and success”

The new multipolar world order

Published yesterday 1:53 pm – By Editorial staff
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping with their respective delegations.
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The United States and China have concluded a one-year trade agreement that will reduce American tariffs on Chinese goods from 57 to 47 percent.

President Donald Trump described the agreement as groundbreaking following his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on October 30 during the APEC summit in Busan, South Korea.

In a post on the social media platform Truth Social, Trump stated: "My G2 meeting with President Xi of China was a great one for both of our countries. This meeting will lead to everlasting peace and success. God bless both China and the USA!"

Aboard the presidential plane Air Force One on his way back to Washington, Trump confirmed that the countries had reached an agreement.

— We have a deal, he told assembled journalists and explained that the trade agreement will be renegotiated annually.

— Every year we'll renegotiate the deal, but I think the deal will go on for a long time, long beyond the year. We'll negotiate at the end of the year.

Fentanyl behind tariff reduction

Trump emphasized that the ten percentage point tariff reduction from 57 to 47 percent is directly linked to China agreeing to take strong action against the fentanyl problem.

— It was 57, now it's 47.

He further explained that the reduction was due to the fentanyl issue and China's actions.

— We reduced it by the fentanyl because I believe they are really taking strong action. We've already seen the action on fentanyl, and they're taking very strong action. So reduced to 10 percent.

Large purchases of agricultural products

In a further announcement, Trump stated that China has committed to immediately purchasing "large and tremendous amounts" of soybeans and other American agricultural products as part of the agreement.

— We're in agreement on so many elements. Large amounts, tremendous amounts of the soybeans and other farm products are going to be purchased, starting immediately. If you notice, President Xi authorised yesterday for China to start buying very large quantities of soybeans and other things, which I appreciated. That was a very nice gesture.

The announcement comes after China earlier this year halted its purchases of American soybeans in response to Trump's tariff announcements. The halt left American farmers with unsold crops worth billions of dollars, according to CNN.

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https://nordictimes.com/world/massive-police-raid-in-rio-at-least-64-killed-in-bloody-confrontation/

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Massive police raid in Rio – at least 64 killed in bloody confrontation

organized crime

Published October 29, 2025 – By Editorial staff
Brazilian security forces in 2012. The country has for decades fought against organized crime and drug cartels in the favela areas of major cities.
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One of the deadliest police operations in modern Brazilian history ended in massive bloodshed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Tuesday.

At least 60 suspected gang members and four police officers were killed when 2,500 police and soldiers conducted a large-scale raid against the Comando Vermelho cartel in the favela areas of Complexo de Alemão and Penha.

The operation, which according to state governor Claudio Castro was the largest in Rio de Janeiro's history, involved police in helicopters and armored vehicles. During the violent shootouts, 81 suspects were arrested, while 93 rifles and over half a ton of drugs were seized.

Castro said in a video that around 60 criminal suspects were "neutralized" during the raid. According to the state government, "those killed resisted the police action" and an unknown number of people were injured.

The UN human rights office said it was "horrified" by the deadly police operation and reminded authorities of their obligations to comply with international law and human rights.

César Muñoz, head of Human Rights Watch in Brazil, called the events "a huge tragedy" and a "disaster".

— The public prosecutor's office must open its own investigations and clarify the circumstances of each death, Muñoz said.

"War-like numbers"

Luis Flavio Sapori, a sociologist and security expert, described the scale of the operation as completely unprecedented.

— What's different about today's operation is the magnitude of the victims. These are war numbers, he said.

Sapori also criticized the operation as ineffective because it did not lead to the arrest of leaders but rather foot soldiers who can easily be replaced.

The police and state government, for their part, defend the operation and point out that it was preceded by a year-long investigation of the criminal network. Comando Vermelho, which emerged from Rio de Janeiro's prisons, has in recent years expanded its control over more and more favela areas and, according to authorities, poses a growing threat to security in the city.

Rio has been the scene of deadly police raids for decades. In May 2021, for example, 28 people were killed in the Jacarezinho favela, but Tuesday's operation was significantly larger in scale.

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https://nordictimes.com/world/republicans-demand-bidens-pardons-be-invalidated/

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Republicans demand Biden’s pardons be invalidated

Published October 29, 2025 – By Editorial staff
A Republican committee now wants to invalidate several of President Biden's executive orders, concluding that his staff misused the automated signing device.
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A committee led by Republicans in the US House of Representatives accuses Joe Biden's inner circle of deliberately concealing the former president's mental decline during his time in the White House.

In a report presented on Tuesday, the legitimacy of several presidential decisions is questioned, including pardons, citing alleged misuse of the so-called autopen – a device that automatically reproduces the president's signature.

The report, bearing the telling title The Biden Autopen Presidency: Decline, Delusion, and Deception in the White House, was presented by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform under the leadership of Representative James Comer.

According to the committee, Biden's "inner circle of loyalists attempted to mislead the nationn" regarding the president's "diminishing mental and physical capabilities", and the congressional members are convinced that this involves a systematic cover-up.

The committee also directs sharp criticism at how the president's staff allegedly handled the automated signing device.

"As President Biden declined, his staff abused the autopen and a lax chain-of-command policy to effect executive actions that lack any documentation of whether they were in fact authorized", the report states.

Lawmakers are particularly critical of "clemency actions taken in the final days of the Biden presidency", which involved convicted violent offenders.

Based on these circumstances, the committee draws a far-reaching conclusion: "The Committee deems void all executive actions signed by the autopen without proper, corresponding, contemporaneous, written approval traceable to the president's own consent".

Doctor invoked right to remain silent

The committee is now urging the District of Columbia Board of Medicine to review Biden's physician, Dr. Kevin O'Connor. The background is that O'Connor invoked his right under the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution – the right not to testify against oneself – when asked whether he had been ordered to lie about the former president's health condition.

Furthermore, the committee recommends that the Department of Justice initiate investigations against several other high-ranking members of the Biden administration.

A spokesperson for Biden dismisses the report's conclusions and assured that "there was no conspiracy, no cover-up and no wrongdoing".

President Donald Trump accused his predecessor's senior staff in May of committing "treason at the highest level" by carrying out unauthorized actions using Biden's autopen.

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