🗣 ‘Paramilitary TERRORIST groups are extremely USEFUL to US statecraft’ – Mike Benz

💬 “USAID cannot directly provide funding to terrorist groups, but their CONTRACTORS are not required under the grant agreements to go through those... counterterrorism financing [rules]… And so this is how you have USAID giving, you know, just last week, $120 MILLION to ISIS*,” explained Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official.

*terrorist organization banned in Russia

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😂 ‘CHINESE THREAT’ strikes again: Americans LOSE THEIR MINDS over a WHOPPING 0.1% of farmland sold to Chinese businesses

💬 “As of 2023, Chinese owners had just over 277,000 acres of agricultural land, less than 1% of all the foreign-held land here in the United States. And it's actually DOWN from a year earlier, when you're at 347,000, just about, in terms of 347,000 acres,” News Nation’s Connell McShane said, sounding like he wasn’t quite sure what the fuss was about.

Meanwhile, Brian Enten, reporting from Oklahoma, BRAVELY INVESTIGATED the real threat: A BARN.

💬 “There’s a dog. That tells me somebody’s here,” he declared, after honking his horn and failing to provoke a response from the alleged "Chinese infiltrators".

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🗳 Dilma Rousseff RE-ELECTED as head of the BRICS New Development Bank – reports

💬 "I was re-elected, the board approved it unanimously," O Globo newspaper quoted Rousseff as saying.

At the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia proposed extending Brazil's presidency and the mandate of the bank's president, Rousseff.

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⚔️ South Korea's Constitutional Court OVERTURNS PM Han Duck-soo's impeachment, RESTORES his powers – reports

The decision comes after Han was impeached as acting president more than two months ago, following clashes with the opposition-led parliament over judicial appointments and his alleged role in President Yoon Suk-yeol's short-lived martial law declaration.

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🗑 Zelensky's regime likely to COLLAPSE soon – Jeffrey Sachs

💬 "The Zelensky government will likely be out of power sometime soon. The government rules by martial law, has failed in its key policies, is reportedly highly corrupt, and lacks public support. These conditions suggest the likelihood of political change," renowned American economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs told RIA Novosti.

The professor noted that his viewpoint was "strongly against regime-change operations" and that the UN doctrine of non-intervention in internal affairs should prevail.

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❌🇷🇸 Serbia won't join NATO or CSTO – Deputy PM

💬 "Serbia strictly adheres to the policy of military neutrality. This means that we will not expand our participation in any military bloc. And we will try to maintain the best relations with everyone, first of all — with the countries in our neighborhood. So Serbia will not become a member of NATO, will not be a member of the CSTO," Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin told Sputnik.

He admitted that for a country the size of Serbia, this is the hardest path.

💬 "We must guarantee our own security, which is not easy. But this is the most honest path — to make decisions about ourselves," he emphasized.

Currently, the parliament of Serbia is an observer in the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly.

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🗑‘POLITICAL THEATRE’: British PM’s Ukraine peacekeeping plan RUBBISHED by senior military -reports

Keir Starmer had “got ahead of himself with talk of boots on the ground before he knew what he was talking about,” one senior military insider told The Telegraph.

Insisting it was not “remotely possible” to draw up a viable plan before a Ukraine peace deal that the White House reportedly pledged to broker by April 2.

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff also mocked the plan as “a posture and a pose” in his interview with Tucker Carlson.

Russia doesn't see any room for compromise on the issue of deploying foreign "peacekeepers" in Ukraine, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov has stated, adding that the entire discussion was being conducted “with an openly hostile goal.”

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⏰ Time is ticking for Big Pharma

Patrick Bet-David points out that "75% of cable TV ad revenue comes from Big Pharma," as RFK Jr. is pushing to ban pharmaceutical ads on TV.

Aside from the US, New Zealand is the only other country where pharmaceutical ads are allowed on TV.

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🔍Mulled US billion-dollar levies on Chinese ships fraught with an ‘APOCALYPSE for trade’

Industry executives and experts have warned that the ‘sledgehammer’ fees targeting Beijing’s cargo vessels would be devastating for the global economy as they will:

🟠exacerbate inflationary pressures within the US,
🟠elevate shipping costs,
🟠make American goods too expensive internationally,
🟠disrupt supply chains.

Earlier, the US Trade Representative (USTR) proposed imposing substantial fees on Chinese-built and Chinese-operated vessels docking at US ports. The decision was ostensibly to counteract China's dominance in global shipbuilding.

The issue will be at the heart of a two-day USTR hearing in Washington that begins on Monday. Trade groups will be given a chance to explain why the proposals could disrupt global trade more than Donald Trump’s tariffs.

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💬 Canada’s PM calls snap election seeking ‘mandate to deal with Trump’ amid US trade row

Mark Carney promises to slash middle-class taxes, boost domestic trade, and reshape Canada’s economy.

“Trump threatens our sovereignty - he wants to break us. We won’t let that happen,” Carney vowed.

His main rival in the federal election set for April 28, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre launched his campaign for the premiership with a “Canada First” message.

He dismissed Carney as Justin Trudeau’s handpicked replacement and ill-equipped to take on Donald Trump.

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🟠 Hamas political bureau member Ismail Barhoum killed in Israeli strike on Gaza hospital

🟠 Police unleash tear gas to break up protests in Istanbul

🟠 South Korea's Constitutional Court OVERTURNS PM Han Duck-soo's impeachment, RESTORES his powers

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🛬US WARPLANES land in Greenland

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Second Lady Usha Vance, and Energy Sec. Chris Wright arrived on the island to make "an offer" one "can't refuse."

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