📡 🇦🇷 🇨🇳 Argentina's Javier Milei Mulls Formal Inspection of Secret Chinese ‘Space Station’ in Argentina

🔶️ The space station can have a military role tracking missiles & satellites in the southern hemisphere.

🔶️ U.S. Ambassador to Argentina Marc Stanley told the Argentine newspaper La Nación that he was surprised Argentina allowed Chinese armed forces to operate a base on its territory.

🔶️ Argentina is considering a formal inspection of a Chinese “space station” on Argentine territory built during a previous socialist presidency, the government confirmed on Tuesday.

🔶️ "There's something strange about the contracts in the base. They were given territory where Argentina can virtually not enter," the source specified about the Espacio Lejano Sta-tion, located north of Bajada del Agrio, in the so-called 'Pampa de Pilmatue?'

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🇵🇦'Panama Papers' trial to begin eight years after tax evasion scandal

Twenty-seven people are set to go on trial on Monday for money laundering in connection with the "Panama Papers" tax evasion scandal, which revealed how many of the world's wealthy stashed assets in offshore companies.

The defendants due to go on trial in a Panamanian criminal court include Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca Mora, the founders of the now-defunct law firm at the center of the scandal.

The leaked trove of 11.5 million files from their company Mossack Fonseca implicated influential figures including billionaires, politicians and even sports stars.

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#Panama

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FROM BRIGHTNESS TO DARKNESS: Incredible timelapse footage of total solar eclipse from Burlington, Vermont

READ: https://t.co/PEF5bQmAad

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Global economic risks ‘could eclipse anything since second world war’, says JP Morgan boss

The boss of the US bank JP Morgan has warned that the world could be facing the most dangerous moment since the second world war, putting lives and economic growth at risk.

In his annual letter to investors, Jamie Dimon said the world had been “generally on a path to becoming stronger and safer” in recent years but had suffered a major reversal in February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine.

“When terrible events happen, we tend to overestimate the effect they will have on the global economy,” Dimon said. “Recent events, however, may very well be creating risks that could eclipse anything since world war II – we should not take them lightly.”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/08/global-economic-risks-could-eclipse-anything-since-second-world-war-says-jp-morgan-boss

His annual letter to investors

The next total eclipse to happen on 2026-08-12
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SECURITY ALERT ⚠️

Possible RCE was detected in Telegram's media processing in Telegram Desktop application.
This issue expose users to malicious attacks through specially crafted media files, such as images or videos.

For security reasons disable auto-download feature. Please follow these steps:
1. Go to Settings.
2. Tap on "Advanced".
3. Under the "Automatic Media Download" section, disable auto-download for "Photos", "Videos", and "Files" across all chat types (Private chats, groups, and channels).

We are currently investigating this vulnerability.

How to Opt Out of TSA Facial Recognition scanners

Simply say: "I'd like to opt out."

If they don't know what you're talking about, ask for a supervisor.

It's in their own codes/regulations, because every time they injure our rights, they have to give us a remedy... even if they hide it.

This notice should be clearly visible at every chekpoint, however, many people are reporting that it's either hidden or nowhere to be seen at all.

Know what your rights are. Stand on your square, but don't be a dick.

Be kind, but firm.

🚨🚨SECURITY ALERT🚨🚨

IF YOU USE TELEGRAM ON WINDOWS, READ CAREFULLY

https://twitter.com/CertiKAlert/status/1777632812700713254

⚖️ 🇨🇭 🇪🇺 European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction

A group of older Swiss women have won the first ever climate case victory in the European Court of Human Rights.

The women, mostly in their 70s, said that their age and gender made them particularly vulnerable to the effects of heatwaves linked to climate change.

The court said Switzerland's efforts to meet its emission reduction targets had been woefully inadequate.
It is the first time the powerful court has ruled on global warming.

Swedish campaigner Greta Thunberg joined activists celebrating at the court in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

"We still can't really believe it. We keep asking our lawyers, 'is that right?' Rosemarie Wydler-Walti, one of the leaders of the Swiss women, told Reuters news agency. "And they tell us it's the most you could have had. The biggest victory possible,"

The ruling is binding and can trickle down to influence the law in 46 countries in Europe including the UK.

The Court ruled that Switzerland had "failed to comply with its duties under the Convention concerning climate change" and that it had violated the right to respect for private and family life.

It also found that "there had been critical gaps" in the country's policies to tackle climate change including failing to quantify reductions in greenhouse gases - those gases that warm Earth's atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels like oil, coal and gas.

Decisions made in the European Court of Human Rights influence law across its 46 member states.

Estelle Dehon KC, a barrister at Cornerstone Chambers in the UK, said "the judgement deals with difficult issues that also vex the UK courts in a way that may be persuasive."

"It comprehensively dismisses the argument that courts cannot rule on climate legal obligations because climate change is a global phenomenon or because action by one state is just a 'drop in the ocean'," she told BBC News.

Governments globally have signed up to drastically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

But scientists and activists say that progress is too slow and the world is not on track to meet the crucial target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68768598

🇹🇷 ❌️ 🇮🇱 Turkey restricts exports to Israel, saying its request to airdrop aid to Gaza was denied

🔶️ “This decision will remain in effect until Israel, within the framework of its obligations arising from international law, declares an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and allows a sufficient and uninterrupted flow of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip,” the ministry said.

🔶️ Along with the United Arab Emirates, Turkey is the biggest donor of aid to Gaza, according to Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/09/business/turkey-restricts-exports-israel-gaza/index.html

🇹🇼 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 The world’s biggest chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, has agreed to make its most advanced products in Arizona from 2028, boosting US’s efforts to bring the semiconductor supply chain on to home soil.

📝 🇨🇳 Zhao DaShuai: The US knows unification with the mainland is a done deal, it’s only a matter of time. They seem to believe the 2027 timetable. Taiwan is living on borrowed time, they are de-risking from the island.

📎 Financial Times

So turns out your hard drive can act as a microphone.

https://twitter.com/bluskript/status/1775789452859933026

Finally, in a near-future world without Israel/diaspora power structures running our way of life, there are components which could genuinely be for American interests.

75% of cargo transiting the Panama Canal is American. Meanwhile, China owns both ends of the Panama Canal. Due to both the drought and unwillingness by local authorities, American ships find themselves waiting at the back of the line to cross, despite the canal being as American as the Hoover Dam. This inheritance from Teddy Roosevelt was discarded for nothing in return despite being a top strategic asset in WWII. Americans died building something that was an extreme positive for US prosperity and freedom of movement.

https://www.csis.org/analysis/key-decision-point-coming-panama-canal

Global Lithium Deposit Map

- US SOUTHCOM Commander General Laura Richardson:
"60 percent of the world's lithium is in the Lithium Triangle: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile."

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