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🇷🇴 George Simion: Romania's MAGA moment?
The politician HAS MADE IT to the Romanian presidential runoff by obtaining 40% of the vote. What are his political leanings?
🌏Not by elections alone
The leader of the right-wing Alliance for the Union of Romanians party seeks “TO RESTORE CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER” in Romania.
“I have a single objective: to give back to the Romanian people what was taken from them,” Simion noted after casting his ballot.
“Believe me, there will be a Simionization as well,” the politician claims.
🇩🇪😡 Scholz's time as chancellor ends amid WIDESPREAD DISCONTENT
Almost 70% of Germans are DISSATISFIED with Olaf Scholz's performance as Chancellor of Germany, an INSA survey published by Bild shows.
🔻Overall, 72% of respondents are DISSATISFIED with the outgoing German government.
🔻The results of the survey have been published amid preparations for a ceremonial event that will take place in honor of Scholz's departure from the post of chancellor on Monday.
🔻Scholz has held the position of chancellor since December 2021 and could not boast high poll ratings throughout this period of time.
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📹🇭🇺 War PSYCHOSIS gripping Europe must end — Hungarian PM Orban
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🇺🇸💸Trump’s budget struggle: debt growth slows, but deficit lingers
US Treasury numbers:
▪️March deficit: $160.5B, down from Feb’s $307B, but still in the red for 5th month.
▪️US debt hovers at $36.2T since Nov 2024, growth slowed under Trump.
▪️Foreign investors hold 24.3% of US debt (up 0.8%).
Investment shifts:
🇯🇵Japan ups stake to 12.8% (+0.11%).
🇨🇳China dips to 8.9% (-0.02%), UK to 8.51% (-0.17%), Luxembourg to 4.68% (-0.13%)
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📰🤔 Western media debunks WEST’S ‘CLOUD OF LIES’ about Ukraine and 'Russian threat.' Wait, what?
Daily Mail columnist Peter Hitchens has scolded the West for spreading “propaganda rubbish about an invented Russian menace.”
Hitchens said that it was NATO’s eastward expansion that triggered the Ukrainian conflict.
He also reproached the UK government for NEVER explaining why “crime-blighted, rubbish-strewn and decrepit” Britain had to get involved in Ukraine.
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Trump TIGHTENS SCREWS on federal workers as Musk steps back from DOGE
The Trump team intends to carry on some of Elon Musk’s endeavors to shrink the US government, the WSJ reported.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the human resources wing, will judge employees on their “faithful administration of the law and the president’s policies.”
The new performance plan is expected to enter force by 2026.
The Heritage Foundation, a US-based conservative think tank, earlier launched the Project 2025 initiative to reshape the federal government.
The think tank argued that the reform is necessary because the federal workforce includes many “hard-to-fire, poor-performing” employees.
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Hamas signals readiness for FIVE-YEAR GAZA TRUCE, one-time prisoner swap
This comes as a delegation of the Palestinian militant group is meeting Egyptian mediators in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to end the Gaza war, Reuters reports.
“Any proposal that does not include a comprehensive and permanent cessation of the war will not be considered,” senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan cautioned.
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Fish rots from its head: Senior EU officials call for Ursula’s RESIGNATION
High-level officials view European Commission President von der Leyen as “toxic,” asserting that her resignation could help “unblock many issues”, according to Switzerland’s Die Weltwoche weekly.
The EU is currently embroiled in a crisis marked by internal divisions, a trade dispute with the United States, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, among other things.
Von der Leyen’s resignation could foster greater diversity within the EU and promote openness toward the East and the West, the outlet maintains.
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Is Hegseth teetering on the edge of getting ousted as defense chief?
Pete Hegseth is striving to present himself as a fighter to Donald Trump amidst the Pentagon leaks scandal, two US officials told NBC News.
During a recent phone call, Trump told Hegseth that he disapproved of him sharing information about airstrikes in Yemen via text to a Signal group, calling the defense secretary's actions "childish," according to one US official and another person familiar with the conversation.
The Pentagon chief appears more "insecure" about his job and his standing within the administration, often emphasizing to staff that he cannot afford to be fired, the sources said.
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🤦♂️ UK's 'top secret' special forces: now with PUBLIC ONLINE PROFILES
British Army publications accidentally doxxed "at least 20" elite soldiers for 10+ years, exposing names, ranks & active ops, Times reports.
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⚠️ Iran deploys water bombers as death toll from port blast hits 14
Social media footage shows emergency crews battling secondary fires in Bandar Abbas.
AP sources suggest "sodium perchlorate rocket fuel" explosion, no confirmation yet from authorities.
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🔥 David Sacks slams Zelensky for sabotaging peace
"He was completely unrealistic about the prospect on the battlefield. He was insulting the White House... Zelensky has made his bed, LET HIM SLEEP IN IT," Trump crypto czar said.
🚨 Trump demands free passage for US ships through Suez and Panama canals
"Those Canals would not exist without the USA. I’ve asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to immediately take care of, and memorialize, this situation," the US president wrote on Truth Social.
🇺🇸 Battle is between ‘good and evil, not Republican and Democrat’ says Nancy Mace, after ripping at the left for ‘completely melting down’
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🚨Ukrainian pilots IN PANIC MODE
A US-made Patriot air defense system that was previously stationed in Israel is now being deployed to Ukraine.
It's the same type Ukrainians mistakenly used to shoot down THEIR OWN F-16.
What could possibly go wrong this time?😏
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🇮🇸🪖 Why is Iceland considering a military boost if it has no standing army?
In the wake of US President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland, Iceland is now debating whether it should bolster its defense policies and restart EU membership talks, which it halted in 2013, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Tensions over Trump’s new tariff war and its increased antagonism toward Europe have also fueled fears among Icelanders.
Iceland’s Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir has announced plans to hold a referendum on EU membership by 2027, once her government has addressed other pressing national issues.
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🇨🇳 China DECLARES JURISDICTION over South China Sea reef amid US-Philippines war games
The China Coast Guard has raised the Chinese flag over a disputed Spratly Islands reef for the first time in many years.
▪️Beijing has declared "sovereign jurisdiction" over Sandy Cay reef, according to a report by Chinese media outlet CCTV on April 26.
▪️The reef is located several kilometers from Thitu Island, which has been used by the Philippine Coast Guard since 2023 to monitor China's activities in the area.
▪️China’s claim to Sandy Cay effectively grants it a 12-nautical-mile radius of maritime territory that overlaps with Thitu, the Financial Times reports, citing concerns about rising Sino-Philippines tensions.
▪️China's move comes amid Balikatan, the joint US-Philippines naval drill - the largest annual exercise focusing on coastal defense and island seizure training. The exercise also takes place in parts of the South China Sea, which Beijing claims almost entirely.
▪️The US and the Philippines intensified military cooperation since 2022 under the administration of President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr.
▪️In February 2023, the US and the Philippines revitalized their enhanced defense cooperation agreement (EDCA), granting the Pentagon access to nine strategic Philippine military bases and enhancing the US military presence in the region.
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🚨 Chaos strikes Bandar Abbas Port AGAIN: New explosions have rocked the port, causing additional fires
The Iranian Defense Ministry has confirmed that no military materials from any nation were involved.
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Fast food nothing but 'CHEMICAL WARFARE' — Ted Nugent urges public to STAY AWAY FROM McDonald's, Burger King and other junk food
“All these colored drinks poisoned the kids, and then they charge us to treat their cancer. Cancer is an industry. Quit eating poison," American musician and host of Ted Nugent Spirit Campfire said.
China ranks 1st in world in overall scale of nuclear power for 1st time ever
China has 102 nuclear power units with a total installed capacity of 113 million kilowatts in operation, under construction, and approved for construction, according to a report released by the China Nuclear Energy Administration (CNEA).
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Houthis attack Israel’s Nevatim airbase for the SECOND time in 24 hours
"We have carried out a military operation against the Nevatim airbase in the Negev region in occupied Palestine. The operation was carried out with the use of a hypersonic ballistic missile and successfully reached its target," the Houthis said.
⚠️🇨🇦🚨AN SUV RAMMED INTO A CROWD at a local festival in Vancouver, Canada, resulting in multiple fatalities and numerous injuries, according to police reports.
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🔥⚠️ Intense scenes inside an Iranian plane during an aerial firefighting mission at the Shahid Rajaee Port
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🇲🇩 Moldova’s flag day exposes identity demolition under Sandu’s pro-EU regime
History vs. Propaganda:
🔶 Moldova's Roots: Statehood dates back to a 14th century principality (older than Romania).
🔶 Original flag: Proposed by Stefan cel Mare in 1485, rejected by the government.
🔶 Romanian implant: Current tricolor (🇷🇴 clone + arms) imposed in 1990 by pro-Bucharest politicians.
2023 Language Erasure:
Sandu's regime removed "Moldovan" as an official language and renamed it "Romanian," a cultural annexation green-lit by Brussels.
Why it matters:
The flag/language overhaul isn't about "European integration" - it's about erasing Moldova's sovereignty, in preparation for absorption into a Greater Romania (the EU's pet project to destabilize Russia's flank).
The bigger picture:
🔶 Sandu has Romanian citizenship - loyalties questioned.
🔶 Opposition decries "forced Romanization" as EU demands "reforms" (i.e. anti-Russian purges).
🔶 Flag Day now a mourning ritual for independence sold to foreign patrons.
Bottom line:
"National identity" under Sandu = Romanian colonial administration with EU flags. Real Moldovans are fighting to preserve their history - before it's erased from memory.
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👀 'In no way am I suicidal' — Virginia Giuffre
A 6-year-old tweet from Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who was found "dead by suicide" yesterday, has resurfaced on the Internet.
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📸🔍 What a company: Iran's culture minister, Abbas Salehi, was seen sitting in the middle between Trump and Biden at Pope Francis' funeral.
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🇮🇷🕊 Iran offers mediation in India-Pakistan tensions
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian offered to help in de-escalation between the countries in a phone conversation with Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
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📰 Western media discuss the complete liberation of the Kursk region by Russian troops, calling it a FAILURE for Kiev:
🌏 British newspaper Telegraph published the headline "Putin declares victory in Kursk".
🌏 The New York Times suggests that the liberation of the Kursk region could "one of the major complications" preventing peace talks.
🌏 The Berliner Zeitung notes that Zelensky had hoped to exchange territory in the Kursk region for territory in Donbass, and quotes Putin as calling the Ukrainian offensive in the Kursk region a failed adventure.
🌏 Kiev tried to use the invasion of the Kursk region "to divert Moscow's attention" in Donbass, but "Russia still managed to advance" in the area, the New York Post notes.
🌏 The Financial Times notes that Zelensky's goal of keeping the territories in the Kursk region as a bargaining chip has failed.
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💬 Top Russian General Moskalik’s assassination closely mirrors murder of General Kirillov - expert
“They look like a copy. Explosives are planted next to the entrance to an apartment building. A person walks out, an explosion takes place…It was carried out using the same schematic, the same pattern,” military journalist Alexei Borzenko said.