📹 Tanker truck fire shuts down Northbound traffic on BR-101 highway in Brazil

No injuries have been reported so far, but traffic remains heavily disrupted as firefighters work to extinguish the fire and clear the scene, local media report.

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🔍 AOC questions gains from alleged INSIDER TRADING on Trump’s tariffs by Congressmembers

💬 “Any member of Congress who purchased stocks in the last 48 hours should probably disclose that now,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted on X.

💬 “It’s time to ban insider trading in Congress,” she added.

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📹 Massive fire devours warehouses in Apaseo el Grande, Mexico — local media

Emergency crews are battling the blaze as authorities work to assess the damage and determine if there are any casualties. The full extent of the devastation remains unknown.

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💸Ukraine’s COSTLY Kursk gamble bleeds the West

$2.4 billion - that's how much eight months of sustaining the incursion of Ukrainian forces and their mercenary hirelings into Russia’s Kursk region have cost Ukraine and its Western sponsors.

This was shown by Sputnik's calculations based on data from Russia’s Sever Battlegroup and open sources.

Russian soldiers are defeating the enemy no matter how much money Western patrons are pouring into this proxy war.

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🪖Japan to carry out FIRST-EVER land-to-ship missile drills

The military exercises by the Ground Self-Defense Force will take place at the Shizunai Anti-Aircraft Firing Range in Shinhidaka, Hokkaido - pointedly facing the Pacific, NHK reported.

Simulating attacks on ships from land, Japan plans to use its Type 88 surface-to-ship missile, a weapon with a range of over 100 kilometers, previously deemed too risky to test within Japan’s crowded air and sea lanes.

However, amid its accelerating military ambitions, these concerns appear to have been swept aside.

Japan justifies its growing arsenal under the pretext of “deterrence” against China’s maritime activity - echoing the familiar mantra pushed by the US.

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📍Over 100 people killed in Yemen in US strikes since mid-March

"US aggression since mid-March has resulted in the deaths of 107 civilians and the injury of 223 people, most of whom are children and women," the foreign ministry was cited by Almasirah broadcaster.

The Ansar Allah movement threatened "more painful escalation" if the US continues bombing Yemen, the report said.

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🤝France poised to recognize Palestinian state by June

In return, French President Emmanuel Macron voiced hope some Middle Eastern nations will finally recognize the state of Israel.

"Our objective is somewhere in June, with Saudi Arabia, to chair this conference where we could finalize the movement towards reciprocal recognition by several countries," Macron told France 5.

Palestine has been recognized as a sovereign state by almost 150 countries

📊 Check out #sputnikinfographic to see which ones.

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🎤THROWBACK: Made MILLIONS working in public office - journalist Megyn Kelly called out Obama's unexplained wealth.

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🟠 US & Panama sign deal on FIRST, FREE PASSAGE of US warships through Panama Canal – Hegseth

🟠 Trump freezes global tariff push: What comes next?

🟠 What’s the TRUE PURPOSE of Trump’s global tariff blitz?

🟠 Ukraine’s COSTLY Kursk gamble bleeds the West

🟠 ‘We just LOST A WAR with Russia’ – Carlson

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😆 TOTALLY SCREWED: US can't produce 2x4 lumber and has to import it from Canada 🪵

"What is our plan now? I don't think we're in a position to simply replicate the imports coming into this country," political commentator Chris Matthews on Trump's tariffs effect.

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Back to the FUTURE? DOGE finds $41K benefit claim by someone born in 2154 😮

Other jaw-dropping claims exposed by the Department of Government Efficiency:
🟠At least 24,500 people over 115 years old have claimed $59 million.
🟠At least 28,000 people under the age of five have claimed $254 million.
🟠9,700 people with birth dates over 15 years into the future have claimed $69 million.

Elon Musk shared on X: "This is so insane; I had to read it multiple times before it actually sank in."

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🚨HOW US MEGA-FUNDS SECRETLY CONTROL EUROPE

After the 2008 financial crisis, the US money managers took control over major banks & industries in Europe.

Alexander Yakovenko, the Deputy Head of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, reveals how:

❓What are mega-funds?

▪️BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, State Street, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan. They control $36.4T+ in assets.

▪️That's MASSIVE power to consolidate controlling stakes in systemically important industries across the globe — including Europe.

💵New (corporatocratic) world order

▪️Mega-funds enjoy strong patronage from the US government, which uses the Federal Reserve, the courts, sanctions and SCANDALS to deal blows to foreign competitors before US capital swoops in to buy them out.

🌍Control on all fronts

▪️US mega-funds have seized control of KEY European companies.

▪️This gives Washington powerful levers to exact pressure — economically, politically & even militarily.

🔍Who feeds mega-funds?

▪️Mega-funds draw their power from the US $52T private savings market.

▪️This market thrives thanks to the Fed’s rate policies and "quantitative easing," which keeps deposit and bond interest at zero or negative amid inflation.

🎯Mega funds' major purpose

▪️Mega-funds’ influence has effectively turned the EU into a gigantic buffer absorbing US financial and economic risks.

▪️Through them, the US can EXPORT its INFLATION, jettison toxic assets, WEAKEN competitors, and IMPOSE unfavorable trade deals.

😈Hostile takeover

▪️From 2008-2018, US funds took managerial and shareholder control of most of Europe’s top 20 banks, and $16.7T in assets.

▪️This cost just $300B, thanks to the PIIGS crisis, the LIBOR and Forex scandals, in which US actors often played a clandestine role.

🔄Flip flop: Now I'm the boss

▪️Europe’s crisis, made possible with US mega-fund and regulators’ help, allowed the US to reestablish the DOLLAR'S DOMINANCE.

▪️It also flipped control over international currency markets: from 45% European bank-owned in 2007, to 72% US bank-owned in 2017.

🌱Cultivating elites

▪️The takeover of Europe wouldn’t be possible without the nurturing of leaders unconditionally ready to accept US “leadership.”

▪️Germany is a case in point, with 24 of 30 of its top firms under US management by 2017, and bank capitalization down 70%+.

⚔️Ukraine war sealed Europe's fate

▪️The US economic war against the EU that began in 2008 ESCALATED dramatically in 2022.

▪️The cutoff of Russian energy ramped up Europe’s deindustrialization and loss of competitiveness, while aiding America’s reindustrialization.

Bravo.

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