🇦🇲 - Pashinyan's ruling Civil Contract party faced a decisive rejection in Armenia's second-largest city during the elections. A total of 47,454 voters participated, representing 42.66% of eligible voters. Local media reported mysterious power outages, violations, and arrests throughout the process.

🇦🇲 - Armenian opposition forces secured a collective victory in the Gyumri municipal elections with 50.36% of the vote, while the ruling Civil Contract party received 36.39%.

TRUMP’S LIBERATION DAY EXPLAINED (also called by me Trump’s Big April Fish):


📑Tariffs Expand: New reciprocal tariffs hit imports worth trillions, targeting countries like the “Dirty 15” (e.g., China, EU) with high trade barriers; Canada/Mexico exemptions end, 25% rates kick in.

📈Prices Rise: Everyday goods—cars, electronics, food—get pricier as tariffs boost costs; inflation jumps (0.5%+), GDP dips (0.4%).

🧑‍🏭Jobs & Markets: Over 300,000 U.S. jobs at risk despite manufacturing hopes; stock markets swing wildly based on tariff details.

🇪🇺Global Backlash: EU slaps $28B in U.S. exports (April 13), others retaliate; supply chains reroute, costs climb.

💵Deals & Revenue: Some nations negotiate lower tariffs pre-deadline; U.S. gains $1.5T over a decade for potential tax cuts.

🇺🇸Trump’s Spin: Calls it a tough but needed fix to “liberate” U.S. from trade rip-offs; Congress may resist if fallout grows.

🇫🇷 - Marine Le Pen found guilty of embezzling European Parliament funds.

🇫🇷 - Note that the actual sentence is not yet known. For now she’s just guilty.

🇫🇷 - Sentences to be known shortly.

🇫🇷 - Marine Le Pen barred from running.

🇫🇷🇷🇺 - The Kremlin denounces a "violation of democratic norms".

🇫🇷 - This is the end of Le Pen’s political career, there is no recovery from that.

Le Pen banned from standing at next presidential election

Le Pen has been banned from standing at the next election, with the judge sentencing her to a five-year ban from politics.

She has been sentenced to four years in prison with two under an electronic bracelet and a 100,000 euro fine.

🇫🇷 - Marine Le Pen will address the people at 8 p.m. on national TV.

Calm down, this is the end of Le Pen, not the end of the movement. The party's flame will continue to guide tens of millions to victory. And when the flames of Italy and France unite, they will set the entire continent ablaze. That is the prophecy 🗣

🇺🇸🇱🇹 - The U.S. Army has announced that three deceased soldiers have been found in the vehicle following its recent recovery. The search for the fourth body continues.

🇫🇷 - French Prime Minister François Bayrou says he is "disturbed" by the court ruling.

🇫🇷 - Marine Le Pen rules out retirement from politics.

Je vais parler en français vu la situation.

Je comprenais pas pourquoi les français de droite quittaient la France.

Maintenant, je comprend.

Continuez de voter avec vos pieds, parce que le changement va pas venir demain la veille, le régime semble même en train de se verrouiller.

Nous au Québec, on a une industrie militaire très forte qui a besoin de cerveaux, on a des industrie aéronautiques, des entreprises en IA... les cerveaux français ont les prend.

1) La droite française ne va absolument rien faire. Mais genre, rien.
2) L'émigration en France (CÀD, les gens qui quittent la France) est une tendance lourde et va s'accélérer ou du moins continuer.
3) Je prédit que dans 10 ans, la diaspora va être considérée par Paris comme une bombe à retardement politiquement.

C'est un pattern classique dans les régimes à 25 cennes.

Translation:

1) French RW won't do anything.
2) Its an already known trend, and will continue: French people leaving France.
3) Within 5 to 10 years, the French diaspora will become a ticking time bomb for the folks in charge in Paris.

Why do I expect the French diaspora to be a ticking time bomb?

1) Living in countries like the US, Israel or Quebec that are friendly to RW and nationalist ideas.
2) Highly qualified, often literal engineers, computer scientist etc.
3) Rich, leaving France to avoid taxes and crime.
4) Not subject to the French system or society, so able to organize in an opposition to the French system that is much more broad and open than people living in France.

Maybe not first generation folks, but wait for kids of French diaspora folks to grow up and there you will have it.

🇨🇳🇹🇼 - The Chinese PLA has announced joint exercises surrounding Taiwan starting today.