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🇫🇷🚔 Police violently disperse student demonstration in Paris
Several hundred students took to the streets of the French capital to protest against university budget cuts.
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🤡 POV: Liberals protesting DOGE and Elon Musk not knowing what DOGE does
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🇭🇺🏃Hungary withdraws from International Criminal Court — Orban's Office
"The withdrawal process will begin on Thursday, in line with Hungary’s constitutional and international legal obligations," Hungarian PM spokesman Zoltan Kovacs announced.
Houthis announce shooting down SECOND US MQ-9 reconnaissance drone IN 72 HOURS
The drone was carrying out hostile operations in the airspace of the Hodeidah province, the movement’s spokesman said.
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🇨🇳🏝Revolutionizing afforestation: China’s Inner Mongolia uses DRONES AND ROBOTS to green the desert
A video shows intelligent tree-planting machines embedding saplings with precision and drones transporting seedlings across sand dunes.
The footage was shared by Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian, who stressed that the drones and the robots help bolster “afforestation efficiency and tree survival rates” in northern China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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Since Pelosi left, Dems 'COMPLETELY FELL APART' — Rep. Mark Mullin
The Democratic Party is led by socialists: Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Jasmine Crockett, the US senator said.
"That tells you the DISARRAY of the Democrats' party. We assumed Nancy Pelosi was the leader; since she left, they completely fell apart," he said, adding that Cory Booker ranted for 25 hours, and Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer aren’t leading either as their favorability is 21%.
🌪‘PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS’ tornadoes rip through central US
At least 17 million people are under tornado watches in parts of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi, and Tennessee.
There are reports of heavy damage, including to homes and farms, in Arkansas and Missouri.
Forecasters have warned that severe storms will cause almost nonstop rain that could lead to “generational” flooding in these states.
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🇭🇺🇮🇱 Netanyahu visits Europe DESPITE the ICC arrest warrant against him – reports
💬 “Welcome to Budapest, Benjamin Netanyahu!” Hungarian Defence Minister Kristof Szalay-Bobrovniczky wrote on social media after greeting him at the airport.
💥 “What ‘very good partners’? In crime? IN GENOCIDE? In ethnic cleansing?” – Belgian MEP Botenga CRUSHES EU’s Kallas over Israel ‘VERY GOOD PARTNERS’ remark
💬 “These words are a SHAME for the European Union,” Belgian MEP Marc Botenga blasted EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas.
✅ Walz: ‘Trump DOESN’T UNDERSTAND how trade works’
💬 “I think the biggest MYTH perpetuated on this country is that Donald Trump understands anything about business. He's bankrupt every single one he's been into, and now he's bankrupting this country,” Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz declared.
🗣 ‘My advice to every country right now is DO NOT RETALIATE. Sit back. TAKE IT IN. Let's see how it goes’ – Treasury Secretary Bessent
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✅ Trump says HE’D LOVE to run against Obama for a third term
💬 “I never looked into it. They do say there’s a way you can do it, but I don’t know about that. But I have not looked into it,” Trump said when asked if he had considered running for a third term.
🗣 ‘I have a very good relationship with him’ – Trump on Kim Jong-un
💬 "There is communication, yeah… We’ll probably do something at some point," Trump said about talks with North Korea.
🪞 ‘That sounds like THIS country’ – Trump reacts to French leader Marine Le Pen’s political conviction
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🗣 ‘I want to see him make a deal’ – Trump on Putin
💬 “I don't want to go secondary tariffs on his oil. But I think, you know, it's something I would do if I thought he wasn't doing the job. I did it with Venezuela,” US President Donald Trump said, commenting on possible additional sanctions against Russia.
📹 US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claims EU doesn’t buy American meat out of jealousy.
Sorry man, but your statement holds no water.
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🗺WORLD’S MOST CRUCIAL SHIPPING ROUTES
These routes don’t just carry goods. 😏
◼️ASIA-EUROPE ROUTE
Connects Asia’s commercial hubs (China, Japan, South Korea) with European markets like France, Germany, and the Netherlands. The Suez Canal is the shortcut that links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea.
◼️TRANSATLANTIC SHIPPING ROUTE
Stretches across the Atlantic, linking North America 🇺🇸🇨🇦 with Europe. It’s key for transporting electronics, automobiles, machines, and chemicals.
◼️TRANS-PACIFIC OCEAN TRADE ROUTE
Links East Asia (especially 🇨🇳China) with North America’s West Coast (mainly the U.S.). Crossing the South China Sea & Taiwan Strait, it’s one of the busiest and most vital for transporting consumer goods.
◼️INTRA-ASIA ROUTE
Connecting East Asia (China, Japan, South Korea) with Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Oceania, this route relies on critical waterways like the South China Sea, Indian Ocean, and the Strait of Malacca.
◼️PANAMA CANAL ROUTE
Connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, shortening voyages between the east and west coasts of the Americas. At 80 km long, the canal uses a lock system to move ships between the two oceans (probably why Trump wants it😏)
◼️SOUTH AMERICA-EUROPE TRADE ROUTE
Connects South American ports (Argentina, Brazil, Chile) with key European ports (Spain, UK, Netherlands, Portugal), playing a major role in the trade of raw materials and agricultural products.
◼️ ASIA-MIDDLE EAST ROUTE
Connects Asian ports (China, India, Southeast Asia) with Middle Eastern ports (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman) via the Arabian Sea. The Hormuz Strait is vital for oil and gas trade between the regions.
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🥴 THROWBACK: Bush pledges TO HURT AMERICANS as US enemies intend to
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and NEITHER DO WE,” George W. Bush said in 2004.
'USAID is all over these drug networks' — former state dept. official
The agency bought two CIA proprietary aircraft for the CIA mercenary army in Cambodia and Laos in order to transport drugs from Cambodia into Vietnam to sell them retail onto the market, Mike Benz said.
"USAID was caught spending hundreds of millions of dollars irrigating all of the heroin, the poppy fields in Afghanistan. It's hard to squint and look for a drug network that USAID is not directly or indirectly capacity building and providing financial support to," he added.
The Empire Strikes Itself:
Liberation Day or Desperation Day?
Trump just lit the fuse. “Liberation Day”, a universal tariff regime on all U.S. imports, isn’t much of a trade strategy. It’s a euphemism for controlled economic demolition. A last ditch rear guard action, made in panic by the Empire.
But it does have the unintended consequence of being a funeral pyre for neoliberalism, the final act of a rentier empire that offshored its manufacturing, hollowed out its working class, and sold its soul to Wall Street derivatives and Silicon Valley surveillance.
The U.S. can no longer outcompete. So it’s trying to out-tariff.
Let’s be clear: this isn’t about protecting domestic industry. America’s industrial base was dismantled decades ago. There are no foundries, no machine-tool factories, no national industrial plan. This is like slapping a steel dome on a house that already burned down.
So why do it?
Because the elites are panicking.
Because the dollar is losing its supremacy, brick by BRICS.
Because real assets: energy, minerals, manufacturing—are migrating east. And because the Global South is no longer playing by the script.
Trump didn’t declare a trade war. He just declared war on globalization’s corpse. What Trump has done is expose the rot. Wall Street hates it. Silicon Valley hates it. Davos hates it.
And that’s the point or at least the unintended beauty of it. The chaotic circus ringmaster is bringing down the house, quite litterally.
The empire is no longer hiding its decline. So it may as well weaponizing it. From its point of view of course.
Universal tariffs won’t rebuild America, they’ll raise prices, slash margins, and speed up de-dollarization as the rest of the world builds supply chains that bypass U.S. control altogether.
And for all the panic on CNBC and in the Moody’s press releases, you know what? Good. Let them panic.
Let the algorithmic traders, overleveraged hedge funds, and globalist NGOs feel a fraction of the instability they exported to the Global South for 40 years.
Liberation Day isn’t really about America. It’s about the system revealing its terminal fragility.
Trump, whether by instinct or ignorance, just set fire to the neoliberal scaffolding. Now comes the smoke, the price shocks, the screams from Wall Street, and underneath it all, the slow, painful rebirth of sovereignty for the Global Majority, so long as the world has the courage to grab it.
Not neat. Not elegant. But necessary.
it's an easy equation for me. You either build industrial capitalism or you decay into financial parasitism. And when the parasites start eating themselves, you know the system’s done.
So buckle up!
Liberation Day isn’t the beginning of greatness. It’s the beginning of the end of the empire’s economic illusion.
🔥 And we say, light the match.
- Gerry Nolan
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🇯🇵↘️ Japan's benchmark stock index COLLAPSES after Trump’s tariff blow
The Nikkei 225, which includes Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, and Nissan stocks, plunged as much as 4.35% in early trading, in an eight-month low.
The US president on April 2 imposed hefty reciprocal tariffs on over 180 countries and territories, several of which, including Japan, are in the Asia-Pacific region.
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EU preparing COUNTERMEASURES to 20% US TARIFFS on European goods
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called Trump's universal tariffs a MAJOR BLOW to businesses and consumers worldwide.
"We are prepared to respond; we are finalizing the first package of countermeasures in response to tariffs on steel, and we are now preparing for further countermeasures to protect our interests and our business if negotiations fail," von der Leyen added.
📝First Flight of the New Il-114-300📝
Yesterday, the third prototype passenger aircraft Il-114-300 made a 30-minute test flight. The mission was completed in full, and there were no issues with the equipment.
Although the aircraft was developed at the end of the USSR era, it was not produced in Russia, and only a couple of dozen units were created. The production of the new, improved modification had to be restarted from scratch in Voronezh.
Currently, the Il-114-300 is undergoing certification tests, which are planned to be completed by the end of 2025. After that, the first deliveries of serial aircraft are scheduled.
📌The need for regional passenger aircraft is huge: purchases of ATR and Bombardier are limited due to sanctions, and the old An-24 planes are literally at the end of their service life. However, this situation is characteristic of the entire domestic civil aviation.
❗️As we previously wrote, our civil aircraft industry requires huge investments and has faced many missed deadlines. But there is no alternative here: the last couple of years have shown that imports can be easily cut off, and there may be nothing left to fly on.
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🐧 Penguins SHOCKED: Trump’s tariffs HIT HARD uninhabited islands – reports
President Trump's new tariffs, announced Wednesday, apply globally, even affecting the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean, Axios reported.
The islands, part of Australia's UNESCO World Heritage-listed territory, are subject to a 10% tax on US imports, alongside mainland Australia. A White House official confirmed their inclusion due to their status as Australian territory.
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🌪 'This is a MONSTER' – Massive tornado wreaks havoc in Arkansas
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✅ US doesn’t trade with Russia – Bessent explains why Russia NOT on Trump’s reciprocal tariffs list
💬 "Well, Russia and Belarus—we don't trade with, right? They're sanctioned," US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent clarified.
✅ Israel launches MASSIVE STRIKE on southern suburbs of Beirut, allegedly targeting a Hezbollah leader – statement
💬 “A short while ago, with the direction of the ISA, the IAF conducted a strike in the Dahieh area, a key Hezbollah terrorist stronghold. The strike targeted a Hezbollah terrorist who had recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them in planning a significant and imminent terror attack against Israeli civilians,” the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Telegram.
💥 Houthis shot down another US MQ-9 reconnaissance drone over northeast Yemen
💬 "Our air defenses successfully shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Ma'rib Governorate, using a suitable, locally made missile," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on Telegram.
✅ Ukraine's NATO OBSESSION led to the crisis – Trump
💬 "Long before Putin, they said, ‘You're not going into NATO.’ And that's probably the reason the war started," Trump TORCHED Zelensky’s delusions.
Rabbi tells US Senate hearing on anti-Semitism that it's "not enough" to be "not anti-Semitic."
"One must be anti-anti-Semitic," he says.
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