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14 Apr 2025 13:24

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇧🇷 The trade war between the US and China has spurred Brazil’s agricultural sector and pummelled American farmers. 'It is a boon for farmers in Brazil and Argentina, and it will help their industry a lot,' points out a lead agriculture analyst

https://www.ft.com/content/3b101afd-b51c-4d64-ba2f-45ad4590e819

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14 Apr 2025 11:05

🇩🇪 Germany has admitted 8.4 million people -- equivalent to a 10% of its pre-existing population -- in just 15 years. In American terms, this would be like four New Yorks. This turbocharged large-scale demographic change is unsustainable and is not, in fact, being sustained.

🔗 Andrew Hammel

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14 Apr 2025 09:35

🇸🇴📡 Musk Announces Starlink License For Somalia

Elon Musk announced on Sunday that his Starlink satellite internet service had been granted a license in Somalia.

"Today is another historic day for Somalia's communications and technology sectors, today we have issued here and provided Starlink, one of the major satellite telecommunications and internet services company the license to operate in Somalia," a post on state media outlet SONNA said.

It added that the license had been issued after two years of discussions.

https://www.barrons.com/news/musk-announces-starlink-license-for-somalia-80e75b6c

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14 Apr 2025 08:08

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Trump says no exemption for iPhones and other Chinese-made electronics — suggests new tariff coming

President Trump settled the debate over the tariffs on iPhones and other Chinese-made devices — saying that there is no “exemption” and that new duties are coming.

“NOBODY is getting ‘off the hook,'” Trump said on Truth Social Sunday. “There was no Tariff ‘exception’ announced on Friday. These products are subject to the existing 20% Fentanyl Tariffs, and they are just moving to a different Tariff ‘bucket.’”

“We are taking a look at Semiconductors and the WHOLE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN in the upcoming National Security Tariff Investigations.”

https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/us-news/iphones-and-other-chinese-made-electronics-will-likely-be-subject-to-more-trump-tariffs-commerce-secretary-lutnik-says/

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14 Apr 2025 01:22

🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳🇰🇷 New Japanese Joint Staff Office map shows the flight paths of Chinese (red) + Russian (yellow) military aircraft operating near Japan, Taiwan, + South Korea in the past year.

Japan scrambled 704 times in response, with two-thirds (464) due to Chinese aircraft. 3x as many PLA drones detected.

https://fxtwitter.com/ianellisjones/status/1911189187556172047

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13 Apr 2025 22:15

📱🇺🇸 Lutnick 5 days ago said smartphone manufacturing was coming to the U.S. because of tariffs.

Now we learn smartphones are excluded from the tariffs.

🔗 Aaron Blake

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13 Apr 2025 15:26

🇨🇳🇹🇼 Update on PLA Joint Combat Readiness Patrols around Taiwan based on Taiwan's MoD data:

Three Observations:

(1) The patrol on April 11 was the third patrol this month, nine days after the "Strait Thunder 2025A" large-scale drill.

(2) Among the four patrols in April 2024, only one had more than 30 aircraft sorties, but all three patrols this year exceeded 30 sorties.

(3) The joint readiness patrols in April 2024 did not reach eastern Taiwan, but all three patrols this April operated in the eastern part of Taiwan, with this time flying south from the airspace between Taiwan’s Yilan and Japan's Yonaguni Island.

Note: The data has been updated by removing the long-range training on September 25, 2024, and adding the joint readiness patrol data from the two Joint Sword exercises in 2024, which aligns with the ROC National Security Bureau Director General's statement of 40 patrols in 2024. The sorties have also been revised to reflect the full-day data published by the Ministry of National Defense the following day, along with the addition of the number of warships.

🔗 K. Tristan Tang

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13 Apr 2025 08:53

📱 Smartphones and computers are China’s largest export to the United States…

Now exempt from tariffs.

🔗 Geiger_Capital

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13 Apr 2025 00:15

War Finance | Zerohedge
"War cuts new financial channels"

Americans, Beijing, Washington and the Fed are reacting to developments in the trade war as they come. But these reactions are best understood as responses to an emerging world order, in particular one where the financial flows of the previous world order are, or soon will be, no longer reliable due to geopolitical fragmentation.

This sets the stage for Zoltan Pozsar's War Finance, which is already underway, to be fully realized.

War Finance includes but goes beyond the Fed's balance sheet policy (QE) and the Treasury's fiscal policy (stimulus) - it encompasses structural changes in how capital is allocated, how reserves are managed and when intervention in markets is due. Its focus is less on supporting a global financial empire and more about securing the onshore credit needs of private industry, be it semiconductor lithography, energy production or steel manufacturing.

In this regime, the lines between fiscal and monetary policy begin to blur. War Finance would call for the Fed and the Treasury to officially fuse into a single framework, where policy is most powerful, which was the case during World War II when the former explicitly supported the latter.

The US is not currently outfitted for War Finance, as fiscal and monetary policy continue to diverge due to obvious realDonaldTrump/posts/114296287858068040">political differences, but the Trump administration clearly recognizes the necessity. It will take an implosion before both recognize with absolute clarity that the old paradigm can no longer be relied on, and with that implosion will follow better choreography, as it always does in a crisis.

- DeathTaxesandQE

@CIG_Telegram

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12 Apr 2025 19:31

🇦🇪🇾🇪 Satellite imagery from Planet Labs PBC, dated March 28, 2025, reveals the completion of an airstrip on Mayun Island, also known as Perim Island, located in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the coast of Yemen. The airstrip was constructed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to support the Southern Transitional Council (STC) in their ongoing conflict against the Houthis.

The imagery shows the airstrip marked with runway designations “09” on the eastern end and “27” on the western end.

It will definitely be used against the Houthis, but it's an easy target for their cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and OWA-UAVs.

https://fxtwitter.com/OSINTWarfare/status/1908495383229005917

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12 Apr 2025 18:24

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli forces have captured the entirety of Rafah city, south Gaza Strip, advancing all the way north towards the Morag Corridor. Images posted by Doron Kadosh, Israeli military journalist for Galei Tzahal. Rerum Novarum have geolocated one of the images to 31.309274, 34.268585, which confirms the advance.

The IDF have also advanced west of Tal as-Sultan, towards the Morag Corridor. Images of IDF (with Trump flags) were posted on Yinon, Channel 14, celebrating the advance. Rerum Novarum have geolocated the images to 31.32039, 34.23181, which confirms Channel 14's report.

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12 Apr 2025 15:44

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump tells Iran ‘make a deal or it’s war’

Donald Trump has given Iran 60 days to agree a nuclear deal or face military action.

The US president’s demands were set out in a letter to his Iranian counterpart Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Politico reported, citing multiple sources.

Steve Witkoff, Mr Trump’s envoy, is in Oman this weekend to begin negotiations with Abbas Araghchi, Tehran’s foreign minister, the first such talks between the US and Iran in more than a decade.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tells-iran-deal-war-225135586.html

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12 Apr 2025 13:01

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China slaps 125% tariff on ALL US goods starting tm.

At this point, there will be a complete stop of direct bilateral China-US trade.

🔗 Carl Zha

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12 Apr 2025 12:35

🇪🇪❌🇷🇺 — Estonia seizes a Russian “shadow fleet” tanker in the Baltic Sea for the first time

➡️The vessel KIWALA back from India was heading to the Russian port of Ust-Luga

➡️Estonia says the tanker is under EU sanctions.

🔗link

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12 Apr 2025 10:01

🇿🇦🇺🇸 President Trump attached this video to the above post about South Africa. It features various clips of EFF party leader Julius Malema inciting land confiscation and the killing of whites. As well as former South African President Jacob Zuma singing about slaughtering white people.

📎 realDonaldTrump/posts/114321989500112442">Truth Social

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14 Apr 2025 12:43

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Since *Wednesday*:

We have had:

- Universal “reciprocal tariffs”
- A removal back down to 10%
- 50% Chinese tariffs
- 90% Chinese tariffs
- 104% Chinese tariffs
- 125% Chinese tariffs
- 145% Chinese tariffs
- Electronics exempted
- Electronics now potentially back on.

🔗 Spencer Hakimian

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14 Apr 2025 10:01

🇨🇳 China reported 5 tonnes of gold purchases in February (160k oz per PBOC).

China actually bought 50 tonnes of gold in February (per GS)

🔗 zerohedge

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14 Apr 2025 08:49

For weeks, the UK has been dealing with the crisis of young, White incel killers.

Why are left-wing people so affected by fiction, to the point of confusing it with reality? I argue it is actually something deeply rooted in leftist psychology:

https://keithwoods.pub/p/adolescence

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14 Apr 2025 07:11

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Trump: "We have a deficit with the EU of $350 billion. And it's gonna disappear fast. And one of the reasons and one of the ways that can disappear easily and quickly is they're gonna have to buy their energy from us."

🔗 unusual_whales

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13 Apr 2025 23:38

💰THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION EYEBALLS SELLING GOLD FOR BITCOIN!

During a few visits to Capital Hill, I asked a lot of offices what they thought about this and not one voiced serious concern.

🔗 Dennis Porter

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13 Apr 2025 21:00

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - The IDF has announced that it has expanded it's offensive in northern Gaza, and has begun an advancement overnight towards the areas of "Daraj" and "Tuffah" of central Gaza city, northern Gaza.

No clashes have been reported yet.

Image [attached] displays illustration of northern Gaza map:
➡️ Red represents evacuation warning of Gaza.
➡️ Dark Blue represents IDF areas of operation.

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13 Apr 2025 11:34

🇾🇪🇾🇪 The Internationally Recognized Yemeni Government is mobilizing around 80,000 troops to attempt to seize control of the Hudaydah Port (Hodeidah port) from AnsarAllah (Houthis).

🔗 OSINTWarfare

https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2025/04/11/yemen-government-plan-to-retake-hodeidah-faces-challenges-amid-doubts-over-us-support/

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13 Apr 2025 08:52

📱🇺🇸 Trump administration says it will exclude some electronics from reciprocal tariffs

The Trump administration late Friday said it would exclude electronics like smartphones and laptops from reciprocal tariffs, a move that could help keep the prices down for popular consumer electronics that aren’t usually made in the U.S.

It would also benefit big tech companies like Apple and Samsung and chip makers like Nvidia, setting the stage for a likely tech stock rally on Monday.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said items like smartphones, laptops, hard drives, flat-panel monitors and some chips would qualify for the exemption. Machines used to make semiconductors are excluded too. That means they won’t be subject to the current 145% tariffs levied on China or the 10% baseline tariffs elsewhere.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-smartphones-electronics-laptops-apple-10c31e91d7790bfe8fb004f547109359

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12 Apr 2025 21:46

🇸🇩🇸🇸 Satellite images reveal the significant impact of Sudanese Army airstrikes on Nyala Airport in Darfur. The strikes appear to have precisely targeted and hit key areas, including newly constructed drone hangars, the runway, taxiways, and other strategic spots across the facility.

All it would take is a single strike with EAF PGMs to put an end to this and cut off the UAE's military support to the RSF.

https://fxtwitter.com/EGYOSINT/status/1910773741853823244

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12 Apr 2025 18:24

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Israeli forces have captured the rest of the Morag Corridor, south Gaza Strip. Rafah has now been cut off from the rest of the Palestinian territory.

Israeli troops continued their advance from yesterday along the Morag Corridor, completely encircling the large towns of Tal as-Sultan, al-Adas and al-Bayuk.

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12 Apr 2025 16:44

🇺🇸 Donald Trump authorizes U.S. military to take control of land on southern border

President Donald Trump is authorizing the U.S. military to take jurisdiction over federal lands along the southern border to help enforce his immigration agenda.

Trump issued a memorandum to the secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security late Friday titled "Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions."

The order directs the secretaries to facilitate the transfer of jurisdiction over federal land along the border so military activity along the border can "occur on a military installation under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/11/trump-gives-military-jurisdiction-federal-border-lands/83052001007/

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12 Apr 2025 15:17

‼️⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️‼️

🔴 Shots were exchanged between the Greek coast guard and a Turkish boat
>https://archive.is/ZHJYl

🔸 A few hours ago (12/04/2025), the Greek Coast guard approached a boat bearing the Turkish flag that was located in Greek waters, it was going to be a routine inspection

‼️ Suddenly shots were fired by the crew of the Turkish vessel and they were also returned by the Greek Coast Guard

🔸 The Turkish vessel fled to international waters shortly after

🔸 There are no reports of injury in the Greek Coast Guard

@GreekBordersGeneral
/GBG/ 🗂

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12 Apr 2025 12:36

📝 Margarita Simonyan: '"Kiwala" was headed to the Russian port of Ust-Luga and registered under the Djibouti flag - Estonia says vessel is part of so-called "shadow fleet."

An EU country is engaging in state-sanctioned piracy, with blessing from Brussels.'

🔗 M_Simonyan

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12 Apr 2025 11:04

🇺🇸 Dual carrier coverage in the Middle East

- Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group (CSG) arrived in CENTCOM AOR, operating off the coast of Oman

- In the Red Sea, Truman CSG continues non-stop 24/7 strike ops against the Houthi

- Nimitz CSG chopped into U.S. 7th Fleet near Hawaii

- Ford CSG is completing COMPTUEX training off the east coast

- Washington, Lincoln, & Bush are active & at homeport

https://fxtwitter.com/ianellisjones/status/1910807770762551330

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12 Apr 2025 10:01

🇿🇦🇺🇸 President Trump torches South Africa for seizing “the land of white Farmers, and then killing them and their families.”

📎 https://x.com/AFpost/status/1910854703304368266