From Around the Nation and the World

By Robin Itzler

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From Around the Nation:

China: I'm going to start out with China.  You might be wondering why “China” is not in The World section. The reason is that China owns more than 350,000 acres of FARMLAND across 27 United States. Many are near U.S. military bases.

• DOE to Restart Involuntary Student Debt Collection - The Department of Education (DoEd) is gearing up to restart involuntary debt collection for its defaulted federal student loan portfolio after pausing collection during the COVID-19 pandemic, the department announced Monday.

• Trump EPA Cleans House, Will Fire Hundreds of Workers Involved in Marxist ‘Environmental Justice’ and DEI Programs - President Trump’s EPA is cleaning house and will fire or reassign hundreds of workers involved in Marxist ‘environmental justice’ and DEI programs. Joe Biden used the EPA to fund Marxist pet projects. In 2024, Biden’s EPA announced $1.6 billion in ‘environmental and climate justice community change grants.’ Biden’s EPA also secretly sheltered $20 billion at Citibank to be later disbursed to 8 far-left green ‘nonprofits.’........

• CEO of US Taxpayer-Funded GDI Admits to Creating Special “Exclusion Hit List” Program that was Used to Strip Ads from The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart – Captured on Audio - On Wednesday, April 16, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio very publicly abolished the censorship body known as the Global Engagement Center (GEC). GEC was actually supposed to be dead already after Republicans defunded the State Department offshoot last year.  However, this didn’t stop Joe Biden’s handlers from rebranding the group with a new name, the Counter Foreign Information and Interference office (R-FIMI) with the same roster of government employees.

From Around the World

• Davos Tyrant Falls from Grace  - The architect of global elitism is finally facing the scrutiny he long deserved. Klaus Schwab—the godfather of the World Economic Forum’s dystopian “Great Reset” agenda—has abruptly resigned from his throne of influence.........According to the whistleblower complaint — reportedly penned by current and former employees of the WEF — Schwab used the Forum as his personal piggy bank.

Canada: This photo was taken last week in Ottawa. Just like the pro Gaza (because there is no such place as Palestine) rallies in the United States, there is never a flag for the host country. These terrorist loving folks are living in Canada but you don’t see the Maple Leaf flying anywhere, do you?  

Canada is having an election and the same people that brought Canada to this are expected to be reinstalled, and it isn't just Islam, there's China, as as Eric Utter has noted:

"China is looking at Canada like Michael Moore looks at a cream-filled donut."

Great Britain:  Maybe we should drop “Great” since the nation is definitely not great anymore. Recently, a man was sitting in a London park when he asked someone to speak more clearly. A bobbie (police officer) came over and inquired if the man had asked the person to speak English. The bobbie explained: 

“Did you ask him to speak English? ….Because if you did, that could be perceived as a hate crime.” 

The DEAF man explained that he only asked the other person to speak clearly since he couldn’t understand him. Yikes! Still there might be hope across the pond.  Great Britain’s Supreme Court probably made liberals cry when they ruled that definitions of “man” and “woman” are based on SCIENCE and BIOLOGICAL SEX. 

• U.K. LGBTQ+ Rally Calls Palestine a ‘Shining Light’ in ‘Struggle’ for Trans Rights - Thousands of LGBTQ+ activists marched in London this weekend, chanting in support of both “trans rights” and “Palestine” as part of the same struggle — with one speaker hailing the Palestinian cause as “the strongest shining light” in a shared fight for “liberation.”............“The ignorance is astounding,” wrote author and podcaster Aviva Klompas.
•  “Very Proud Disabled Trans Woman” With Beard Gives Speech About Being Misgendered to London Protesters, Reality is crazier than satire, my friends.

Hungary: The 15th amendment to the Hungarian constitution was overwhelmingly ratified by Budapest’s Országgyűlés parliament to officially recognize that there are only two genders. The vote was 140 to 21. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is a big ally of President Trump and one of the few European leaders with brains between his ears.

Sweden: The Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden, Ebba Busch, recently said in a speech: 

"Islam needs to adapt to Swedish values. Muslims who do not integrate should leave this country! Honor killings, clan structures, beheadings, the stoning of women, and Sharia law do not belong here!" 

Taiwan: There are 13,000 7-Elevens on this island nation. Since the nation is always prepared for a Chinese invasion, 7-Elevens are seen as a potential location for citizens to go in case of an emergency.