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SPIRITUAL:

ALL residents of Canada need to see this video [What is the LEGAL STATUS of CANADA?]


It is on YouTube as: The Myth is Canada

Put your seat belts on ... cause things are not what we "assumed" as legally correct.

Doug Force and Hugh Reilly discuss the timeline on the Myth is Canada

 

Always in His service,

Fred Campbell

 

MEDICAL:

PROOF! Excess deaths caused by COVID vaccines, not just COVID or lockdowns

An article published by Sage, one of the top 5 academic publishers, has just been released, not just noting the curious phenomenon of excess mortality, and how it happens to correlate with the COVID-19 vaccination program, but pretty much proving that the jab is involved, by explaining that governments already admit to COVID-19 vaccine deaths, but also - and more satisfyingly - ruling out the typical alternative explanations of COVID-19 itself and the lockdowns, via an ecological study focused on 4 Australian regions. Source.


This is my Australian excess deaths paper I’ve mentioned a few times, kind of inspired by the curious words of officials in 2021 about Australian hospitals being full, even in areas largely untouched by COVID-19, and later data indicating that the jab is causing a heap of cardiovascular issues and other adverse effects here.


There are basically two arguments in the article, one quick and cheap, the other far more satisfying. The short argument is that since health officials have admitted to COVID-19 vaccine deaths. These deaths were, of course, unexpected and premature; it is obvious that the vaccines are contributing to our excess mortality problem. This is indisputable. We can argue over the amount. The bigger argument is my makeshift ecological study.


Four of Australia’s states and territories are the focus here. They all experienced excess deaths during the pandemic. I noticed that, no doubt partly because of the country’s relative isolation and natural oceanic borders, in the regions of Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, and the Northern Territory, deaths from COVID-19 only became a (relatively) big deal from 2022 onwards.


For example, there were no COVID-19 deaths in the NT in 2020, the crucial pandemic year before the vaccines arrived, and a whopping 2 COVID-19 deaths in 2021, comprising a very small proportion of overall excess deaths, with double-digit COVID-19 deaths in the following years (see pic below). WA even saw COVID-19 deaths decrease from 2020 to 2021, to zero, before shooting up in 2022, when everyone was supposed to be ‘protected’ by the vaccines. Weird, huh?



Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics

Also, for these 4 regions, unlike the situation in Sydney and Melbourne, any lockdowns tended to be very short and still allowed for medical appointments. Interestingly, like the rest of the country, pretty much everyone received their COVID-19 vaccines in 2021.


Remember all those studies on excess mortality, with some (including my own on Europe) wondering if the jab might be playing a role? Those who find that possibility too unpalatable tend to point the finger at COVID-19 itself or the lockdowns. Blaming COVID-19 is risky because we would have to have been undercounting COVID-19 deaths, by a lot, when the evidence indicates the opposite, that COVID-19 deaths have been hyped up, partly because it was very common practice to call any death around a positive case a ‘COVID-19 death’ (also see our FOI request on whether a COVID-19 death occurred in a jabbed or unjabbed person). And blaming the lockdowns is just plain weird, since the same people who jabbed us, often mandating it, locked us down. Either way, they’d be responsible for these deaths.


But that’s all kind of moot here, because for these Australian regions, we can rule out COVID-19 and the lockdowns. It’s the jabs. If these regions that saw excess deaths rise along with mass vaccination with the COVID-19 vaccines, and they didn’t really have a COVID-19 problem or the sort of lockdowns that can cause widespread health crises, it is obvious that the jab - already acknowledged by Australian and other governments as causing deaths - is playing a significant role.


I go through quite a lot of the evidence indicating that this hypothesis is not just possible and plausible, but probable - much of which OTN readers would already be familiar with:


So, there you have it. And I think I’ve found the same phenomenon (excess deaths alongside COVID-19 vaccination, with the COVID-19 and lockdown excuses being untenable) in other parts of the world, like the US and Asia, but that will have to wait for another day. Pretty tired now.


TL;DR: 4 Australian regions saw excess deaths rising alongside COVID-19 vaccine use in 2021, while not really having a big COVID-19 or lockdown problem. This adds to the increasing evidence that the jabs are a really bad idea.


Okay then.

Extra: Impressed? Think this is really important? Then please share this. I am being heavily censored, and despite my legal victories against the mandates and multiple publications on the jabs in proper medical journals, I have a tiny audience here on Substack and on X. I can’t do this all by myself, lacking in resources, energy, and time, so I rely on you to get the word out. As we saw with the story of Lorraine Knott, it could really make a difference.


Discussion about this post

Let’s examine the methods available to pharmaceutical companies and regulators to critique this research and how one could expect that these methods would be used:

1. Cherry Picking (Selective Evidence)

  • • How it would be used: Pharmaceutical companies or their defenders might highlight studies that support the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, while ignoring the data presented in this study that shows a potential link between vaccines and excess deaths.

  • • Example: "While this study shows some concerning patterns, let's focus on the dozens of other studies that confirm the COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives. These outlier claims don’t change the overall picture."

2. Appeal to Authority

  • • How it would be used: They might cite respected health authorities, like the WHO, CDC, or even well-known epidemiologists, who maintain that the vaccines are overwhelmingly safe and effective, dismissing this study as out of touch with expert consensus.

  • • Example: "The WHO and the CDC have continuously stated that the vaccines are safe. Raphael Lataster is not an authority in vaccine safety, and this paper contradicts the vast body of expert opinion."

3. Ad Hominem

  • • How it would be used: Rather than engaging with the study’s data, the pharmaceutical industry could attack the credentials or motives of the researcher or any publication with a dissenting view.

  • • Example: "Raphael Lataster, while having a background in pharmacy, has no proven expertise in epidemiology or vaccine safety, and his claims should be taken with a grain of salt."

4. False Dichotomy (Either-Or Fallacy)

  • • How it would be used: Framing the issue as an either/or situation—either the vaccines are responsible for excess deaths, or the pandemic and its effects were much worse than we thought.

  • • Example: "Either we accept that the vaccines are safe and effective and continue with our vaccination programs, or we risk an overwhelming wave of COVID-19 deaths. We cannot afford to entertain these conspiracy theories about vaccine harm."

5. Post hoc ergo propter hoc (False Cause)

  • • How it would be used: Arguing that just because excess deaths increased after the introduction of the vaccine, it doesn’t necessarily mean the vaccine is the cause.

  • • Example: "The timing of the vaccine rollout and the rise in excess deaths are coincidental. Just because they occurred around the same time doesn’t mean the vaccines are the cause."

6. Appeal to Ignorance

  • • How it would be used: Suggesting that because we don’t have definitive proof of the vaccines causing excess deaths, we should assume they don’t.

  • • Example: "There’s no definitive proof that vaccines directly cause excess deaths. Until you can prove this conclusively, we should assume the vaccines are safe."

7. Anecdotal Evidence

  • • How it would be used: Highlighting the experiences of individuals or groups who have not been adversely affected by the vaccine, thus dismissing the broader, less anecdotal data.

  • • Example: "I personally know dozens of people who had the vaccine with no issues. This data is just outlier cases that don't represent the majority of people who benefit from the vaccine."

8. Overgeneralization (Hasty Generalization)

  • • How it would be used: Using a small subset of data from a specific region to make broad claims about the global impact of the vaccines.

  • • Example: "Just because a few regions in Australia saw a slight uptick in deaths doesn’t mean this applies to the entire population. The global vaccine rollout has been overwhelmingly beneficial."

9. Argument from Incredulity

  • • How it would be used: Rejecting the findings as implausible, arguing that it’s hard to believe the vaccines could have caused the excess deaths when the benefits have been so widely promoted.

  • • Example: "It’s hard to believe that a vaccine that has been so extensively tested and administered worldwide could actually be causing widespread deaths. This seems far-fetched."

10. Confirmation Bias

  • • How it would be used: Ignoring or dismissing evidence that contradicts the claim that vaccines are safe, while focusing on any study that supports the idea that the vaccines are harmful.

  • • Example: "There’s a reason this paper is getting attention—it's exactly what people who are already anti-vaccine want to hear. But we have hundreds of other studies that show the vaccine's safety."

11. Appeal to Popularity (Bandwagon)

  • • How it would be used: Arguing that since the vaccine is universally recommended by global health organizations, it must be safe, and this study is an outlier.

  • • Example: "The vaccines are endorsed by almost every health organization in the world. If there were any major issues, they would have come to light long ago."

12. Falsifiability Objection

  • • How it would be used: Claiming that the study’s conclusions are not falsifiable or are based on insufficient evidence to be reliable.

  • • Example: "There are too many variables in the data presented here to draw solid conclusions. Without clear, falsifiable evidence, this study cannot be considered definitive."

13. Appeal to Complexity (or "It’s More Complicated")

  • • How it would be used: Suggesting that the situation is too complex to be reduced to the simple narrative that the vaccines are causing harm.

  • • Example: "The reasons behind excess deaths are multifaceted, involving socio-economic factors, healthcare access, and more. This paper oversimplifies the issue by blaming the vaccine."

14. False Equivalence

  • • How it would be used: Drawing false comparisons between the vaccine and other interventions or factors without addressing their differences in impact.

  • • Example: "We’ve seen adverse effects from all kinds of medications and interventions. Just because there are concerns about the vaccine doesn’t mean it’s any worse than other common drugs that carry risks."

15. No True Scotsman

  • • How it would be used: Reinterpreting the argument to exclude studies that show negative effects, making the data harder to contest.

  • • Example: "If the vaccines were truly harmful, it would show up in properly conducted, peer-reviewed studies. This paper is not part of the legitimate body of scientific work, so it can be disregarded."

16. Loaded Language or Framing

  • • How it would be used: Using emotionally charged terms or framing to make the study seem less credible or too extreme.

  • • Example: "This study is filled with alarmist language, making sweeping, unfounded claims about the vaccines. The real science tells a much different story."

17. Shifting the Burden of Proof

  • • How it would be used: Demanding that the researchers prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the vaccine caused the excess deaths, rather than acknowledging the existing evidence.

  • • Example: "You can’t just claim the vaccine caused excess deaths—you need irrefutable evidence linking the two. Until then, the vaccine’s safety stands unchallenged."

18. Appeal to Tradition

  • • How it would be used: Relying on the long history of vaccines as a form of reassurance that the new COVID vaccines must be safe.

  • • Example: "Vaccines have been saving lives for over 100 years. We know they’re effective, and this new COVID-19 vaccine is just following that established tradition."

19. Undistributed Middle

  • • How it would be used: Drawing connections between the vaccine and excess deaths based on incomplete or unrelated data.

  • • Example: "Excess deaths are increasing in regions with high vaccination rates, so the vaccine must be the cause—this assumes that vaccines are the only factor, which is not necessarily true."

20. Slippery Slope

  • • How it would be used: Suggesting that even considering the possibility that vaccines might be linked to excess deaths could lead to extreme, negative consequences.

  • • Example: "If we start questioning the vaccine's safety, it will lead to widespread vaccine hesitancy, public panic, and the collapse of public health efforts globally."


Conclusion:

In response to this study, defenders of the COVID-19 vaccines could employ any of these fallacies to discredit the findings, deflect attention from uncomfortable truths, and preserve the vaccine’s public image and financial value. The fallacies would be designed to frame the study as unimportant, unreliable, or unfounded, allowing the pharmaceutical industry and its stakeholders to maintain confidence in their products and avoid the consequences of questioning the vaccine’s safety.

 

Thanks so much for your efforts.


The data on countries such as Cuba is glaringly obvious - it’s astounding that so many people are indifferent about the numbers when you tell them:



 

CANADIAN:

Top Toronto Police Lawyer suddenly 'on leave' amid hate-crime charging Scandal


We have an update regarding the Falguni Debnath fiasco.

Falguni Debnath is legal counsel for the Toronto Police Service. And disturbingly, Debnath is allegedly involved in setting police policy, too – especially in terms of who should be criminally charged and who shouldn’t.



The Debnath debacle goes back to last December. That’s when Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow dropped a bombshell. Mayor Chow said that Toronto Police Chief Myron Demkiw told her that internal legal advice had discouraged officers from laying hate crime charges during those despicable pro-Hamas protests.


The advice police received was to essentially back off on charging the Hamasholes, apparently even the violent ones. This dubious advice allegedly came from a “senior lawyer at police headquarters” who said that securing convictions would be difficult.

That “senior lawyer” is apparently Falguni Debnath. As to why securing convictions against thugs breaking the law would prove to be difficult remains a mystery.


Yet, if the Toronto police brass is receiving its marching orders from a lawyer when it comes to law enforcement, this is downright shocking and entirely inappropriate.

But it does kind of explain what we have witnessed for more than two years now regarding those pro-Hamas reprobates. They have trespassed into restaurants, bookstores and shopping malls with the goal of harassing patrons. They routinely utter death threats. They vandalize Jewish-owned businesses and schools as well as synagogues. They have openly displayed swastikas. They have cosplayed as terrorists.


They have even chanted for the genocide of the Jewish people as they march through predominantly Jewish neighbourhoods.

It’s been stomach-churning. And frankly, it’s hard to believe this is happening in Toronto the Good.


Indeed, whatever happened to the Toronto police slogan of “to serve and protect”? Or are the Toronto police serving and protecting Falguni Debnath as opposed to citizens?

Even more appalling, as the cops turn a blind eye to lawlessness and hate crimes committed by the Hamas supporters, they go full Gestapo mode when it comes to peaceful counterdemonstrators and members of the independent press.

Gee, we wonder if arresting counterdemonstrators and independent journalists was also based on the advice of fabulous Falguni as well?


We reached out for comment to the police, the mayor, and Debnath herself. The silence is deafening. None of them returned our requests for comment. In fact, it is Toronto police policy not to communicate with Rebel News. We’re also banned from police press conferences. Is that a Falguni Debnath initiative, too?


But get this: last week, we were tipped off that Debnath, who we understand is not very well-liked by her colleagues at Toronto police headquarters, is no longer in the building. In fact, when we reached out to her via email the other day, we received an automated response noting that she is “on leave.”


Fascinating.

What’s also fascinating is the he said/she said bickering when it comes to the Falguni fiasco.

Which is to say, when this story broke, Chief Demkiw implied that Mayor Chow was not telling the truth. The Chief said that he never made such a statement to the mayor regarding a senior legal staffer calling the shots.


Yet the Toronto Police Service has yet to provide a detailed public explanation regarding whether or not legal guidance has influenced law enforcement decisions. So, in the aftermath, what gives?


While I’m no fan of Mayor Chow, I think she’s telling the truth on this file. For starters, what would Chow have to gain by making up such a story? And really, this explanation that there is someone behind the scenes tinkering with law enforcement policy vis-à-vis the Hamashole demographic is the only thing that seems to explain the behaviour of Toronto police going back to October 2023.


So, now the question remains: why did Debnath suddenly get out of Dodge?

Part of the answer might be that Debnath very much preferred being a silent and anonymous schemer. But we blew her cover last December when Rebel News dropped by police headquarters with our big, beautiful billboard truck. We outed this shyster. And insiders tell us she flipped her wig when she saw her name and image up in lights. She even allegedly threatened to resign that very day. The truck was so disturbing to her that a senior cop asked us to kindly move the truck away from the police headquarters. We politely declined to do so.


And now Falguni Debnath has apparently skedaddled away rather than face scrutiny for her actions. What a coward.


Speaking of cowardice, where is the mainstream media on this file? With the exception of our friend at the Toronto Sun, Joe Warmington, the trained seals at the MSM are AWOL. But why? This is a hell of a story, wouldn’t you say?


Indeed, aside from our videos and Warmington’s columns, the only other media coverage I could find about Debnath was a superb piece written by Ron East in the online news site, TheJ.ca. TheJ.ca is self-described as “a Canadian-based Zionist international media platform dedicated to amplifying local and global voices that champion meritocracy, first principles, respect, and peace through strength.”

East notes that under Canadian law, police are tasked with laying charges when they believe an offence has occurred. The decision to prosecute, withdraw, or pursue a conviction rests with Crown attorneys. Legal experts note that while police services often consult legal counsel on complex matters, such advice is not intended to replace frontline enforcement of the law.


He notes that Jewish community leaders say the current ambiguity is contributing to a loss of confidence at a time when Jewish residents report feeling increasingly unsafe. And the suggestion that hate-crime charges are being avoided because of anticipated courtroom challenges has alarmed Jewish advocacy groups.


East also notes that neither Debnath nor the Toronto Police Service has responded publicly to detailed questions regarding her role, if any, in advising against hate-crime charges. Mayor Chow’s office has also not issued a clarification regarding her account with the chief’s denial.


As well, here’s what one former prosecutor familiar with police-Crown relations had to say: “When senior officials provide contradictory accounts, the public deserves a clear explanation. Otherwise, confidence in the system erodes.”

Meanwhile, East notes that Jewish organizations argue that the issue goes beyond internal disagreements and reflects a broader failure of political leadership to confront antisemitism decisively.


The Toronto Police Service has repeatedly stated that it enforces the law impartially and evaluates each incident based on evidence and legal thresholds.

Really? Then why were independent journalists arrested numerous times for the egregious crime of… practicing journalism in public?

Notably, Chief Demkiw has emphasized the importance of balancing public order, Charter rights, and community safety.


Did you pick up on that word: “balancing”? Translation: accommodating the pro-Hamas demographic, apparently based on the advice of Debnath, is the prime directive of the Toronto police now. “Balancing” means accommodating the pro-Hamas thugs as opposed to applying law enforcement in an unbiased and impartial fashion. Was that what the chief’s secret meeting with Justin Trudeau was all about?

And if Falguni Debnath has indeed left the building – as in permanently – two words spring to mind: good riddance! The only question that remains is this: will the Toronto police continue to adhere to Debnath’s grotesque advice — or will the cops actually, you know, enforce the law of the land in an unbiased way?

Stay tuned…

SIGN the PETITION to FIRE the POLICE-CHIEF:  https://www.rebelnews.com/fire_the_chief_petition 

REBEL News



RUMBLE

The EPSTEIN FILES

Epstein’s longtime patron and financial benefactor, Leslie Wexner, was finally brought before lawmakers on Wednesday — but not in a congressional hearing room, not under the glare of cameras, and not in Washington.


Instead, members of the House Oversight Committee travelled to Wexner’s private estate in Ohio to conduct a closed-door deposition about his decades-long relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. No Republicans attended in person. There was no public testimony. No televised moment of reckoning.


Just a small group of Democratic members questioning an 88-year-old billionaire in the comfort of his own home.

Whitney Webb's work, particularly in her book "One Nation Under Blackmail," delves into the extensive connections between Jeffrey Epstein's activities and broader issues of crime, intelligence, and capitalism. She emphasizes the need to understand Epstein's operations within the context of systemic exploitation and the dynamics of power and wealth.

 

 

TRUMP: 

NYC Mayor Mamdani demands photo ID to shovel snow, but opposes it for voting

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HYPOCRACY




New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing backlash over a glaring contradiction in his approach to identification requirements. The mayor, who has voiced opposition to voter ID laws on the grounds that they can disenfranchise low-income residents, seniors, and immigrants, presides over a city policy that demands a stack of identification documents from anyone who wants to pick up a shovel for emergency snow removal.


To vote in an election that shapes the future of the city, Mamdani believes no photo ID should be necessary. To get paid $19.14 an hour clearing sidewalks during a winter storm, his sanitation department requires two original forms of ID, copies of each, a Social Security card, and two small photos measuring 1-1.5 square inches.

Read that list again. Two original IDs. Copies of both. A social security card. Passport-style photos. All to push snow.


The ID Double Standard

The mayor's position on voter ID is familiar progressive boilerplate: requiring identification to cast a ballot is a barrier that falls hardest on the most vulnerable. According to Just the News, the argument treats any ID requirement at the ballot box as inherently exclusionary, a tool of suppression aimed at those least likely to carry a driver's license or state-issued card.


But somehow those same vulnerable populations, the low-income workers, the immigrants, the seniors, Mamdani says he's protecting from voter ID laws, are expected to produce a dossier of personal documents just to earn a temporary paycheck from the city's sanitation department. The policy is listed right on the department's website.

If identification requirements are a barrier, they're a barrier everywhere. If they're not a barrier for snow removal, they're not a barrier for voting. You cannot hold both positions simultaneously. And yet here we are.


Who's Really Being Disenfranchised?

Think about who actually shows up to shovel snow for the city during a major winter storm. These aren't people with a filing cabinet of neatly organized documents at home. They're workers looking for short-term, physically demanding labour at an hourly wage that bumps from $19.14 to $28.71 only after 40 hours in a single week. This is not a cushy municipal gig. It's gruelling, cold, and temporary.


These are exactly the people Mamdani claims to champion when he opposes voter ID. And his own city government walls them off behind an ID gauntlet that would make a DMV clerk blush. Two forms of ID aren't enough; you need copies too. Plus a social security card. Plus photos.


The message is clear, even if unintentional: the city cares more about verifying who shovels its streets than who picks its leaders.


A Pattern, Not a Paradox

This isn't really a contradiction at all once you understand the logic. Opposition to voter ID has never been about protecting vulnerable populations from paperwork. It's about removing safeguards from a process that benefits from them. Every serious democracy on earth requires some form of identification to vote. The American left treats this global norm as radical.



Meanwhile, when the government writes the checks, suddenly verification matters. Suddenly, identity is important. Suddenly, the city needs to know exactly who you are before it hands you a shovel and $19.14 an hour. The principle bends to fit the political need.

Mamdani's critics are calling it an inconsistency. That's generous. Inconsistency implies confusion. This is a selective application, and it reveals which ID requirements progressives actually consider important. The answer is whichever ones serve their interests.


The Bigger Question

The backlash Mamdani faces over this isn't going away, because the comparison is too clean and too obvious for even sympathetic observers to ignore. You don't get to build a political brand on tearing down ID requirements in one context while enforcing far stricter ones in another. Voters notice. Workers who get turned away from a snow-removal gig because they didn't bring two forms of ID and a Social Security card certainly notice.


If the mayor believes what he says about identification being a tool of exclusion, he should start with his own city's policies. Strip the ID requirements from snow-removal applications. Let anyone who shows up grab a shovel, no questions asked.

He won't, of course. Because when it's the city's money on the line, identity verification isn't suppression. It's common sense.

Funny how that works.

AMERICAN Almanac

 

 

Undiplomatic Ambassadors

 

Welcome to Balance of Power, bringing you the latest in global politics. If you haven’t yet, sign up here.

Whether strategy or not, President Donald Trump’s diplomatic envoys are on a streak of distinctly undiplomatic behaviour.


It may be that US ambassadors are simply pushing back against what they see as the hypocrisies of the rules-based international order.

Either way, they are riling up the body politic across Europe and the Middle East with a striking number of diplomatic incidents in recent weeks.


In France, Ambassador Charles Kushner is in hot water after the embassy in Paris reposted a message from the State Department warning that “violent radical leftism” was on the rise. It cited the killing of a 23-year-old — described in French media as a far-right activist — as evidence of a threat to public safety.

Kushner didn’t bother to appear when summoned by the Foreign Ministry yesterday, the second such snub.


The subsequent French statement, while partly written in high diplomatic style, was also plain in its anger, citing Kushner’s “apparent failure to grasp the basic requirements of the ambassadorial mission and the honour of representing one’s country.”

It’s not just France.


Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, rattled his host government’s neighbours last week when he asserted in a podcast that Israel had the right to take control of much of the Middle East.


In Belgium, Ambassador Bill White called for an end to the “anti-semitic ‘prosecution’” of Jews in Antwerp, and complained about a “very rude” Belgian minister. Prime Minister Bart De Wever accused him of sowing discord.



Haranguing Chinese envoys became known as Wolf Warriors for their undiplomatic ways, before they were reined in by Beijing.

Now it’s US ambassadors fanning the flames of discord in Europe and elsewhere rather than tamping them down. — Alan Katz


Trump, right, during a US ambassadors meeting in the White House in March 2025.

Photographer: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg

 

Global Must Reads

Trump’s efforts to end Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine are stalling, with peace talks deadlocked and the fighting largely at a stalemate as the war hits its four-year mark today. While the US is pushing for a deal before Trump hosts 250th-anniversary celebrations of American independence on July 4, there’s no sign Vladimir Putin is ready to reach an agreement that doesn’t meet Russia’s key demands. Germany’s defence chief criticized Trump’s strategy in dealing with Putin.

WATCH: Bloomberg’s Oliver Crook reports on the war entering its fifth year.


The US president’s 10% global tariffs went into effect today as the White House tries to preserve Trump’s trade agenda after the Supreme Court struck down his original duties. A European Union assessment found that the new policy will increase levies on some of the bloc’s exports, including cheese and other agricultural products, above the level permitted in an EU-US trade pact. Read our preview of Trump’s State of the Union address today.


Trump pushed back on reports that the Pentagon was concerned an extended military campaign against Iran could prove difficult, even as he insisted yesterday his preference is to strike a deal. Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, meanwhile, plan to travel to Geneva this week for more US-Iran talks amid a fragile diplomatic effort as regional tensions escalate.


The back-to-back humiliation of British public figures Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and ex-US ambassador Peter Mandelson is the last thing embattled Labour leader Keir Starmer needs, with polling already showing him as the most unpopular UK prime minister in modern times and a series of local and regional elections looming. Their arrests over alleged misconduct in public office threaten to engulf his administration less than two years after a landslide election win.


Mandelson and Starmer at the US ambassador’s residence in Washington in February 2025.

Photographer: Carl Court/Getty Images


The US imposed visa restrictions on three Chilean officials tied to a Chinese undersea cable project, alleging a security threat. The rare move two weeks before a right-wing government takes over in Santiago sent a warning to the region that it must choose sides between

Washington and Beijing as Trump strives to reassert dominion over the Americas.


China blacklisted 20 Japanese entities and tightened scrutiny on other firms, signalling Beijing’s pressure campaign on Tokyo isn’t slowing after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s recent election victory.


North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister has been promoted, the latest sign of the family consolidating its grip on power as the ruling party convenes a meeting to chart policy direction for the coming years.


Kim Yo Jong.

Photographer: Pool/Getty Images

 

US lawmakers probing allegations of persecution of Christians in Nigeria said the West African nation should repeal Sharia and anti-blasphemy laws to help counter growing extremist violence, and proposed withholding funding until the government shows “demonstrable” action to stop attacks.


A US delegation is set to discuss nuclear weapons with Chinese counterparts in Geneva this week as the Trump administration attempts to start a new round of arms-control talks with both Moscow and Beijing.

Sign up for the Washington Edition newsletter for news from the US capital and watch Balance of Power at 1 and 5 p.m. ET weekdays on Bloomberg Television. Hosts Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz will anchor additional coverage from 8 p.m., showing the president’s State of the Union address in full along with the Democrats’ response.


Chart of the Day

Saudi Arabia’s fiscal deficit expanded to the widest in five years, as lower oil prices put pressure on the kingdom’s finances. The shortfall has led to increased borrowing and forced the government to accelerate a pullback from some of the huge projects that are part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 plan to reduce reliance on petroleum.


And Finally

Dressed all in black, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gave details of how the country’s most-wanted drug kingpin was tracked down and killed on Sunday, sparking widespread gang retaliation. The most valuable information about Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, the leader of the Jalisco cartel known as “El Mencho,” came from tracking one of his “romantic partners.” After his location was identified, Oseguera escaped with his bodyguards to a wooded area where they were surrounded by special forces and seriously wounded. Oseguera died while being transported to a hospital nearby.


Sheinbaum and Mexican Defense Minister Ricardo Trevilla Trejo in Mexico City yesterday.

Photographer: Yuri Cortez/AFP/Getty Images


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