🇺🇸🇨🇦 Trump puts 35% tariff on Canada, eyes 15%-20% tariffs for others

U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up his tariff assault on Canada on Thursday, saying the U.S. would impose a 35% tariff on imports next month and planned to impose blanket tariffs of 15% or 20% on most other trading partners.

In a letter released on his social media platform, Trump told Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney the new rate would go into effect on August 1 and would go up if Canada retaliated.

The 35% tariff is an increase from the current 25% rate that Trump had assigned to Canada and is a blow to Carney, who was seeking to agree a trade pact with Washington.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇶🇦 The Pentagon has now confirmed for the first time since the attack occurred, that at least one short/medium-range ballistic missile fired by Iran was able to evade air-defenses and impact Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar during the Iranian attack against the base on June 23, as retaliation for U.S. strikes against three nuclear sites in Iran.

In a statement to Air & Space Forces Magazine, Pentagon Chief Spokesman Sean Parnell stated, “One Iranian ballistic missile impacted Al Udeid Air Base on June 23 while the remainder of the missiles were intercepted by U.S. and Qatari air defense systems. The impact did minimal damage to equipment and structures on the base — there were no injuries. Al Udeid Air Base remains fully operational and capable of conducting its mission, alongside our Qatari partners, to provide security and stability in the region.”

Today’s confirmation comes amidst the release of several satellite images over the last week by Iran International and the Associated Press, showing significant damage to a radome and a number of nearby buildings at Al Udeid, with the radome said to have housed a $15 million communication suite known as the Modernization Enterprise Terminal (MET).

While not directly denying an impact, U.S. officials in the days and weeks after clearly attempted to downplay the Iranian attack, likely in an effort to not disrupt the swift ceasefire between Israel and Iran that was signed almost immediately following the attack against Al Udeid. In a social media post on June 23, U.S. President Trump stated that 13 of 14 ballistic missiles were intercepted in the Iranian attack on Al Udeid, with one missile being “set free” because it was deemed not to be a threat, with this likely being the missile that struck the radome at the base. Additionally, during a press briefing at the Pentagon on June 26, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine said there were “reports of something getting through,” but he refused to elaborate at the time about what that meant, or if there was any damage to Al Udeid.

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🇺🇸 - President Trump announces that he will oppose any Republican that does not vote for his rescissions bill, which would defund billions from NPR, PBS and various USAID-administered overseas humanitarian projects.

Senate holdouts include Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Thom Tillis (R-NC), who have all expressed concern over funding to public media and global health programs being rescinded through this measure.

Although some were citing
impacts to soft power, the reluctance seems to be over PEPFAR, a global HIV program that has historically had Republican support and was signed into existence under President Bush.

The Trump Administration argues that the program’s funding has been wastefully spent, citing millions of U.S. dollars traced to foreign prostitution rings, LGBT support programs, adult male circumcision initiatives, and leftist non-governmental organizations.

The Senate has until July 18th to approve the bill, but it remains held up in committee.

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🇺🇸 Massive haul of methamphetamine seized in one of Minnesota’s ‘largest meth busts’ ever

Two men were arrested on Monday after law enforcement seized nearly 900 pounds of suspected methamphetamine worth approximately $1.7 million — in what authorities are calling “one of the largest meth busts in Minnesota history.”

Two men, 46-year-old Joel Casas-Santiago and 44-year-old Guillermo Mercado Chaparro, are facing charges for their alleged involvement in the crime.

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🇳🇴🤝🇺🇦-NORWAY PLEDGES $200M TO REBUILD UKRAINE’S ENERGY

➡️ Norway has committed $200 million to support the restoration of Ukraine’s energy sector, reinforcing its role in Kyiv’s post-war recovery efforts.

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🇺🇸💸❗️ — US government records $27,000,000,000 budget surplus in June, the first monthly surplus since 2005!

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🇮🇷🤝🏴 — Iran hosting and protecting Al Qaeda leadership, says UK

➡️ Intelligence officials in the UK believe that Iran is hosting the headquarters of Al Qaeda, giving the terrorist leadership a lifeline after years of setbacks.

🎙 A British Parliament's security and intelligence committee reported:

“The transactional arrangement between Iran and the senior leadership of Al Qaeda is concerning,
Being based in Iran has allowed [Al Qaeda] to retain some oversight of franchises internationally, creating a complex intelligence landscape, as Iran is a less accessible environment for the West than other parts of the Middle East – which, in turn, may have increased the [Al Qaeda] threat.

➡️ It said a group of senior Al Qaeda leaders, known as the Hattin Committee, which was located in Iran in 2022, was benefitting from protection from western counter-terrorism.

➡️ The committee said that Richard Moore, head of the Secret Intelligence Service − commonly known as MI6 − had advised them of this

🔗 Source: The National

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🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵🇰🇷 — US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, held a meeting with the Korean & Japanese Foreign Ministers, Iwaya Takeshi from Japan and Park Yoon-joo from ROK respectively

Productive meeting in Malaysia today with Japanese Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi and Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo. Our trilateral partnership is indispensable as we work together to uphold peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific and beyond.

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🇺🇸🤝🇧🇷 — US President Donald Trump:

“They are treating President Bolsonaro very unfairly, he's a good man...

I shouldn't like him because he was very tough in negotiations, but he was also very honest.

And I know the honest ones, and I know the crooked ones.”

🔗 Open Source Intel (@Osint613)

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🇺🇸🇺🇸📞🇷🇺 — US Secretary of State Rubio about the Russians losses in Ukraine:

Since January, Russia has lost 100,000 soldiers—dead, not injured.

Ukrainian losses are less but still significant.

The president believes wars are a waste of money and lives.

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✍️🆗🌐 — [Off] Apparently, translation feature is back to Telegram.

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🇺🇸💰💥🇧🇷 — To date, the 50% tariff imposed on Brazil by US President Donald Trump is the highest on the planet.

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💰🚀📈 Bitcoin hit a new All-Time-High around $111990 on all major exchanges!

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💻 Microsoft is laying off 9,000 Americans while simultaneously seeking approval for 14,181 new H-1B visa hires in 2025.

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🇵🇱 Polish prime-minister, Donald Tusk, threatens Polish nationalists with imprisonment if they don't leave the border crossings with Germany because they are "causing economic losses by preventing Polish citizens from crossing over into Germany".

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🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇷 the defense of al Udeid depleted somewhere between 30-50 patriot interceptor missiles from the americans alone, the single largest PAC volley in US history.

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🇺🇸 - Jerome Powell is reportedly considering resigning his Chairmanship at the Federal Reserve.

This directly follows a letter sent by the White House yesterday which accused him of exorbitantly using funds for the Fed building’s renovation for luxury developments, and subsequently breaking the law by misreporting the facts of that renovation to Congress.

It also comes after months of criticism by President Trump against Powell’s reluctance to lower rates while inflation subsides.

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🇸🇳❌🇺🇳🇳🇱 UN, Netherlands cancel LGBTQ event in Senegal after government warning

The U.N. and the Dutch foreign ministry said on Friday they had cancelled an LGBTQ-themed event in Senegal after the West African nation warned of repercussions for organisers and voiced opposition to all "promotion of the LGBTQI phenomenon".

Anti-gay laws are in place in many conservative West African countries, including Senegal, where anyone who commits an "act against nature" with someone of the same sex can be punished by up to five years in prison.

In a statement published on X, Senegal's foreign ministry on Friday said it had been informed of a film screening to be hosted by the U.N. and the Dutch embassy that would have been followed by "discussions on LGBTI issues".

The statement did not specify when the event was scheduled to occur.
"Accordingly, the government reserves the right to take any appropriate action against any organisers of such activities, and even against participants, whatever their origins, status or rank," the foreign ministry statement said.


🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/un-netherlands-cancel-lgbtq-event-senegal-after-government-warning-2025-07-11/

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🇺🇸❌🇨🇺🛠❗️ — United States State Department announces sanctions against the Cuban Communist Dictator Miguel Diaz-Canel over the brutal crackdown and the gross human rights violations against the 2021 Cuban protests & the Patria y Vida Movement

➡️ This is the first time the U.S. government has imposed sanctions on Díaz-Canel, Cuba Communist Regime’s handpicked president and head of the Communist Party, a civilian figure who was spared in several rounds of sanctions on Cuban officials both under President Donald Trump, in his first term, and President Joe Biden.

➡️ The State Department also sanctioned Cuban Defense Minister Álvaro López Miera, and Interior Minister Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas. The sanctions mean the three, along with their immediate family members, will be prohibited from traveling to the United States.

In Statement, the US State Department said:

Four years ago, thousands of Cubans peacefully took to the streets to demand a future free from tyranny. The Cuban regime responded with violence and repression, unjustly detaining thousands, including over 700 who are still imprisoned and subjected to torture or abuse.

Today, the Department of State is taking steps to implement President Trump’s strengthened Cuba policy outlined in National Security Presidential Memorandum-5 from June 30, 2025. In solidarity with the Cuban people and the island’s political prisoners, the United States is designating key regime leaders under Section 7031(c) for their involvement in gross violations of human rights. We are also taking steps to impose visa restrictions on numerous Cuban judicial and prison officials responsible for, or complicit in, the unjust detention and torture of July 2021 protestors.

In addition, the Department is updating the Cuba Restricted List and the Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List to include 11 regime-linked properties, including the new 42-story “Torre K” hotel, to prevent U.S. funds from reaching the island’s corrupt repressors.

The U.S. will continue to stand for the human rights and fundamental freedoms of the people of Cuba, and make clear no illegitimate, dictatorial regimes are welcome in our hemisphere.

The designations of Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, López Miera, Álvarez Casas, and their immediate family members are made under Section 7031(c) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2024 (Div. F, P.L. 118-47), as carried forward by the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2025 (Div. A, P.L. 119-4). The steps to impose visa restrictions on Cuban officials are taken under Section 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act.

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🇺🇦🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Pro-Ukraine Tatar insurgents sabotage railways in Russia's Volgograd, Russian-controlled in Crimea, group claims

➡️ The Atesh Movement, a Pro-Ukraine Crimean Tatar partinsan group, claims to have sabotaged the railways in the Russian city of Volgograd and Uvarove, Russian-controlled in Crimea

➡️ Footage allegedly shows the explosion from Volgograd, where the Tatar insurgents destroyed a railway relay panel on July 10, 2025

🇹🇷 In Statement, the Tatar insurgents said on Telegram:

Agents of the "ATESH" movement carried out a successful sabotage at a strategically important railway junction in Volgograd — a relay cabinet that provided communication and train traffic control in the area of the Maxim Gorky locomotive depot was put out of order.

This node is a key link in the transfer of equipment, fuel, personnel, and ammunition to the southern and eastern directions. The sabotage was prepared in advance to inflict maximum effect at a critical moment — when the enemy on the front begins to experience shell shortages. This limits artillery operations by imposing ammunition usage limits and reduces the intensity of assault actions.

❗️Disabling the relay equipment caused serious disruptions in train traffic, disrupting military logistics and redeployment schedules, as well as ammunition supplies to the front line.

We act precisely, decisively, and uncompromisingly. Strikes on logistics are strikes at the heart of the military machine.

📝 Crimean Tatars are often Pro-Ukraine given the historical background with Soviet Union, with even a paramilitary unit in Ukraine composed by Tatars being trained by 🇹🇷 Turkiye's MIT being seen alongside the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the current war against Russia

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🇺🇦🤝🇬🇭-According to Ukrainian President Zelensky, Ghana is ready to launch a new partnership with the Ukrainian Armed Forces focused on expanding drone production and technological cooperation.

“Ghana is ready to finance our drone production, and we are ready to help our partners secure their borders.”

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🇷🇺🇧🇷🕊🇺🇸 — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday (10) that BRICS is not an anti-American group and will not listen to "the language of threats and manipulation."

BRICS is not an anti-American association. Nothing on the BRICS agenda contains an anti-American component," Ryabkov told reporters in Moscow.

The language of threats and manipulation, if you will, about what is or is not happening, including on the BRICS platform, is not the kind of language that should be spoken to the participants of this association.

➡️ President Donald Trump late on Sunday said the US will impose an additional 10 percent tariff on any countries aligning themselves with 'anti-American policies' of the BRICS group of developing nations, triggering sharp denials from its members that they were oriented against the United States.

A line is being drawn. If policy decisions are made that are anti-American, then the tariff will be charged,”

said the US Government source to Al-Arabiya, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to speak on the matter.

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🇺🇸🤝🇪🇺🇧🇳🇸🇦❌🇱🇧 — US State Department announces that officials from the United States Department of State, United States Department of Justice, and Europol convened the fourteenth meeting of the Law Enforcement Coordination Group (LECG) on countering Hezbollah’s terrorist and illicit activities on July 9-10.

➡️ The United States Department of State, United States Department of Justice, and Europol convened the fourteenth meeting of the Law Enforcement Coordination Group (LECG) on countering Hizballah’s terrorist and illicit activities on July 9-10. Law enforcement, prosecutors, and financial practitioners from approximately 30 governments from across the Middle East, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America participated in this session.

➡️ The LECG took stock of Hizballah’s global terrorist and lethal plotting capabilities, in light of the significant blows the organization has taken over the past year. LECG participants assessed that Hizballah remains a dangerous organization, determined to maintain its overseas footprint, with the ability to strike with little to no warning against targets around the world.

➡️ LECG members also discussed Hizballah’s shaky financial state and agreed that Hizballah may seek to increase its fundraising and procurement activities in the Western Hemisphere, Africa, and other locales. Participants highlighted recent actions that governments have taken to counter Hizballah’s financial mechanisms and criminal schemes, as well as its international terrorist operations.

➡️ Officials from the U.S. Department of Treasury and National Counterterrorism Center also participated in this meeting.

➡️ The LECG was established by the United States and Europol in 2014 as a global forum to improve international coordination with governments from around the world to counter Hizballah’s terrorist and other illicit activities.

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🇺🇸📞🇷🇺 — Today, July 11, 2025, Russia's Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rubio briefly were seen talking before the meeting in the format of the ASEAN summit in Kuala Lumpur

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🇺🇸 🇺🇳 - Marco Rubio sanctions far-left, pro-Palestine UN official Francesca Albanese.

Follow: @ThermopylaeNews

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🇺🇸⛽️🤝🇩🇪 — In Victory for Atlanticism, Germany AGREES to import more liquefied natural gas from the Gulf of America, and the United States is now officially Germany's largest supplier of LNG.

➡️ US President Trump agreed with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz that Germany would buy more. And they bought more.

🔗 Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh)

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Admin was offline few days for some mental health rehab due to bad personal events.

Normal posting will resume in a while.

Thanks for understanding.

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🌎 Many gangsters in Latin America are worried that cocaine may become less profitable, so they are piling into the illegal gold market. The two criminal activities complement each other

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2025/06/26/the-gold-bull-market-has-a-dirty-secret

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian State Media TASS shared a video showing a Russian fiber-optic FPV drone strikes a German-made Leopard 2A6 main battle tank operated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlement of Pysarivka, Sumy Oblast of Ukraine.

➡️ The vehicle was hit to the turret area.

🗺 Geolocation by Status-6:

51.080831, 34.838008

➡️ Pysarivka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine

🔗 Status-6 (Military & Conflict News) (@Archer83Able)

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 An Iranian-linked hacker group, going by the alias “Robert,” is threatening to release around 100 GB of emails from Trump’s inner circle, including communications involving Susie Wiles, Roger Stone, Lindsey Halligan, and even Stormy Daniels.

🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/iran-trump-aides-email-hack-threat

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