Weekly News-April-11-2024
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – Trump Announces Immediate Tariff Increase on China to 125% and Grants 90-Day Tariff Reduction for Over 75 Other Countries
By | Gateway Pundit
The announcement led to an immediate and massive surge in the stock market.
Trump announced the tariff change on Truth Social, writing that it was due to China’s “lack of respect for the World’s Markets.”
In response to Trump’s original 104% tariff on China, the Chinese government announced it would retaliate by increasing tariffs on American products from 34% to 84%. Read full article >
#2 – China Has an Insidious 6 Point Plan to Defeat Donald Trump and Win The Economic War
The Chinese have no intention of giving in to President Trump and are vowing to “fight to the end”. So that means that an economic war between the number one economy on the entire planet and the number two economy on the entire planet is officially on. Yesterday, I warned my readers that imports from China were about to be hit with a 104 percent tariff, but because this number had not been reported by the mainstream media yet a lot of people didn’t believe me. Of course this morning major news outlets all over the globe were using that number. Read full article >
#3 – In Spite of Claiming to Cut Government Spending, Trump Announces $1 Trillion Defense Budget
So much for the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE’s efforts to cut government spending. It looks like the Trump administration will instead take any savings and apply it to war efforts, increasing the defense budget to $1 trillion.
Trump announced the massive spending budget during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday. “We are very cost-conscious, but the military is something that we have to build, and we have to be strong because you have a lot of bad forces out there now,” Trump said. “Nobody’s seen anything like it.” Read full article >
#4 – US House Passes New Bill that will Officially Change Elections After Trump Executive Order
By Callum Jones | Unilad
Last month, the 47th POTUS signed an order entitled: ‘Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections’.
“Despite pioneering self-government, the United States now fails to enforce basic and necessary election protections employed by modern, developed nations, as well as those still developing,” the legislation states.
“India and Brazil, for example, are tying voter identification to a biometric database, while the United States largely relies on self-attestation for citizenship.”
And now a new bill codifying how exactly this will work is making its way through Congress. Read full article >
#5 – Trump Weighs Drone Strikes On Mexican Cartel Terrorists Amid Major Hemispheric Defense Push
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge
After two months of U.S. military surveillance flights targeting Mexican drug cartels—with the initial phase focused on gathering signals intelligence (SIGINT) over cartel-controlled territory—a new NBC News report hints at the second phase…
The report cites six current and former U.S. military, law enforcement, and intelligence officials with knowledge of the Trump administration are considering targeted drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels – now designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs). Read full article >
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 – Pentagon Announces “Bold Steps” To Seize The Panama Canal
By Mac Slavo | SHTF Plan
According to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the United States military needs to take “bold steps” to seize the Panama Canal from Chinese control. The United States has vowed to “take back” the Panama Canal from Chinese influence and has launched a series of military deployments and joint exercises with Panama to reinforce that commitment. Read full article >
#2 – WHO Runs 2-Day Pandemic Simulation: ‘Exercise Polaris’
By Jon Fleetwood | Substack
For two days last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) simulated an outbreak of a fictional virus that spread across the world, in a virtual pandemic readiness drill called ‘Exercise Polaris.’
The WHO convened more than 15 countries, over 20 regional health agencies, and health emergency networks “to test a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies,” according to a press release. Read full article >
#2 (tie) – This Again: Fauci Touts “The Next Outbreak”
By Steve Watson | Modernity News
Footage has emerged of Anthony Fauci telling an audience at the New Orleans Book Festival, where he was hawking his COVID book, that there will be a new pandemic in the near future, and that it will be a new respiratory virus with a higher rate of morbidity than COVID.
“The next outbreak will be of a respiratory disease that’s easily transmissible, that has a significant degree of morbidity,” Fauci asserted. Read full article >
#3 – China, Japan and South Korea Strengthen Ties, Seen as Geopolitical ‘Turning Point in History’
By Jacob M. Thompson | WinePress News
Last month, in a show of a new budding alliance and fracturing of the old Western-dominated order, top delegates from China, Japan and South Korea met in Tokyo on March 22nd to discuss East Asian protection and fiscal issues as the world is increasingly thrust into chaos.
“Given the increasingly severe international situation, I believe we may truly be at a turning point in history,” Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya stated at the beginning of the discussion with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul. Read full article >
#4 – UK Creating Pre-Crime ‘Murder Prediction’ Tool to Identify People Most Likely to Kill
By Will Jones | Daily Sceptic
The UK Government is developing a pre-crime ‘murder prediction’ programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers. The Guardian has more.
Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.
The scheme was originally called the “homicide prediction project”, but its name has been changed to “sharing data to improve risk assessment”. The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it “chilling and dystopian”.
#5 – Shopify CEO Mandates AI-first Hiring Policy, Reshaping Workforce Expectations
By | Natural News
Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke is making one thing clear to employees: artificial intelligence isn’t just a tool—it’s a fundamental requirement. In a memo sent to staff last month, the e-commerce executive announced that teams must now justify why a job can’t be automated before requesting additional hires, signaling a seismic shift in corporate hiring strategies amid the AI revolution.
The directive underscores a broader trend in the tech industry, where businesses are aggressively investing in AI while simultaneously trimming headcounts. For Lütke, the mandate is about optimizing efficiency. Read full article >
