💸 Cypriot MEP Reveals How Much Brussels Pays its Bureaucrats

YouTube blogger Phidias Panayiotou, who was elected as an independent MEP, has made public how much money MEPs can extract off Brussels each month.

MEP’s can receive around €60,000 per month, not including perks such as business class travel and access to a chauffeur.

Not bad going for pen-pushers.

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🤡 UK's First Group CEO Receives £800,000 Bonus for Hitting Diversity Targets

Even though 61,000 of his company’s trains were late or canceled.

Because the narrative takes priority over the people.

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📣 Reform UK Reaches 65,000 Members – Up Nearly Two Thirds in One Month

It reveals a groundswell of support for the party in the final weeks of the election campaign, when Farage set his sights on squeezing both the Tory and Labour vote.

Reform, which ran on a platform of ending non-essential migration, was the third most popular party by vote share on July 4 – winning 14% of the vote.

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⚠️ ICYMI: Boeing Accepts Plea Deal to Avoid Criminal Trial over 737 Max Crashes – US Justice Dept

Boeing will plead guilty to a criminal fraud charge stemming from two crashes of 737 Max jetliners that killed 346 people after the govt determined the company violated an agreement that had protected it from prosecution for more than three years.

Prosecutors accused the American aerospace giant of deceiving regulators who approved the airplane and pilot-training requirements for it.

The plea deal, which still must receive the approval of a federal judge to take effect, calls for Boeing to pay an additional $243.6mn fine.

346 dead and zero accountability…

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➡️ El Salvador’s President Threatens to Lock Up Retailers Who Charge Too Much

President Nayib Bukele, the millennial leader who once styled himself “the world’s coolest dictator,” was responding to recent steep rises for food and other basics in El Salvador.

The president warned shopkeepers and suppliers that he was “not playing around,” stressing: “I expect the prices to come down by tomorrow or there are going to be problems.”

“I am going to issue a call, like we did the gangs at the start of 2019… to the importers, distributors and food wholesalers: stop abusing the people of El Salvador, or don’t complain about what happens afterward,” he stated.

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👀 WH Pool Q: “Yes or no, has his physician seen a reason to re-evaluate him for Parkinson's?"

Karine Jean-Pierre: "The president is obviously going to have another physical…”

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❎ Ukraine War is European Problem - Trump Ally

Elbridge Colby has informed the UK that they should not expect significant support from the US on Ukraine under a second Trump administration, and called for Europe to take “primary responsibility” for the war. (The Telegraph)

He also suggested London should deploy a “Britain first” approach to defense and security.

Colby, a military strategist, said the US was more focused on threats from China, where there is “very little the British military can realistically do” to help.

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⚠️ Kiev Children’s Hospital Hit by Ukrainian Anti-Missile Fire, Not Russia - Kremlin

Moscow does not conduct strikes on civilian targets, Dmitry Peskov reiterated.

The Kremlin spox also stated that Russia will ‘closely monitor’ the NATO summit in Washington as the alliance considers Moscow an enemy.

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🤡 ICYMI: WH Spox Kirby Brags Biden Will Hold a “Big Boy Press Conference” Later This Week

Will Joe be wearing his big boy diapers at his presser?

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