Sede Vacante is a period that spans from the death or resignation of the Pope to the election of his successor | Pope Francis passed away on April 21, 2025 at the age of 88. He was the 266th head of the Roman Catholic Church. His demise set off a period known as Sede Vacante, which means a "vacant seat." ● At this time the life of the entire church comes almost to a complete standstill, as most of its officials resign. Among those who retain their posts are the dean of the College of Cardinals, the major penitentiary, and the camerlengo, who manages the daily affairs of the Holy See. ● Among his other duties, the camerlengo must officially announce the pope’s death, seal his private chambers, manage the Holy See’s property, arrange the funeral and make sure that everything is in place for the election of a new pontiff. ● During Sede Vacante, coins are minted that don’t display a papal portrait. In 1978, when two popes - Paul VI and John Paul I - passed away, two coin sets were struck. The second one bore the inscription "sede vacante-2." These coins are the most coveted by numismatists.

■ Pope Francis to be buried late this week (TASS)
■ RIP Pope Francis (Moon of Alabama)
■ "World" Mourns Passing of Pope Francis (Sputnik)
■ Hong Kong’s Catholic Church recalls ‘inspirational leader’ Pope Francis (SCMP)
■ The canonization of the first millennial saint, Carlo Acutis, is postponed after the pope’s death (Associated Press)
✅ The prophecy of the end of the world: Pope Francis has died, a strange prediction is connected with this (E. Suchov)

his Japanese MP (whose name is Shinji Oguma) absolutely nails it, and reflects what pretty all countries in Asia are thinking (VIDEO)

💬 "When Japan negotiates with what [Trump] is saying it's akin to being extorted by a delinquent. If Japan gives in, thinking it's a negotiation or a deal, and compromises on its position, it sets a bad precedent as a customary practice. If you give money to someone extorting you, they'll just come back to extort you again. "

Member states have agreed on a 32-page pact to improve global pandemic preparedness and response, addressing equity, technology sharing, and cooperation—five years after COVID-19 exposed critical failures | Years of negotiations culminated with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding a repeat of the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis. After more than three years of talks and one last marathon session, weary delegates at the World Health Organization's headquarters sealed the deal at around 2:00 am (0000 GMT) Wednesday. [...] Five years after [the so-called] "Covid-19" [the military bio- weapon] ["the vax"] killed millions of people and devastated economies, a growing sense of urgency hung over the talks, with new health threats lurking, ranging from H5N1 bird flu to measles, mpox and Ebola.

■ WHO conducts a 2-day pandemic simulation called ‘Exercise Polaris’ – bringing together 350 predatory health groups worldwide (04/16/25)

US President Donald Trump has again threatened China with increasing duties, this time to 245%. This statement was published on the official website of the White House. | According to the source, Trump imposed a 10% duty on all countries and set higher individual tariffs for those with the largest trade deficit with the United States. ● More than 75 countries have approached the White House with proposals for new trade agreements. As a result, the imposition of individual increased tariffs was temporarily suspended, with the exception of China, which responded with similar measures. (Translation: DeepL) (Original)

■ US threatens China with 245% tariff (RT)
■ US Playing Hardball: Restrict China’s Access in Exchange for Fewer Tariffs on Allies (Sputnik)
✅ War by other means — Trump’s tariffs and the empire’s final gamble (Thomas Fazi)

■ WHO conducts a two-day pandemic simulation, Exercise Polaris, involving over 15 countries and 20 health agencies.
■ The exercise tests a new global coordination mechanism for health emergencies, bringing together predatory public health officials and organization that seek to implement a bio-surveillance state.
■ These simulations, advertised as preparedness, actually mask global bio-terror propaganda campaigns and totalitarian pursuits.
■ These simulations are designed to maximize compliance with predatory vaccine programs that are already in development.
■ Psychopaths at WHO failed to get their bird flu pandemic in 2024 and 2025, and are trying to come up with new ways to submit populations to their plans.

A senior Chinese official warned Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s tariffs would backfire and that soon, “those peasants in the U.S.” would “wail in front of the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization.” | The remarks are the latest Chinese repudiation of Trump’s global trade war as Beijing shifts gears from attempting to communicate with the White House to hitting back frequently and forcefully in an effort to cast the United States as an irresponsible global power. ● China’s top official overseeing Hong Kong and Macao, Xia Baolong (shown above), lashed out at the U.S. during a speech on national security, in which he linked 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong with what Beijing sees as continued U.S. efforts to suppress China. Xia called the U.S. decision to levy a tariff of 145 percent on all goods from Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China...

💬 “...brutally unreasonable and extremely shameless.” ● “The U.S. isn’t after our tariffs but our very survival,” he said. “The U.S. has repeatedly contained and suppressed Hong Kong … and this will eventually backfire on itself.”

Since Trump took office in January and set about remaking the global trading system, the world’s two largest economies have levied import duties on each other that are now so high they amount to a trade embargo. ● China has countered Washington’s latest levies by imposing a tariff of 125 percent on all U.S. goods while Trump has maintained 145 percent taxes on all Chinese imports, with temporary exceptions for semiconductors and consumer electronics.

Kit Klarenberg | Given these findings, the overwhelming majority of governments the world over now have a clear legal obligation to do anything and everything in their power to halt the Zionist entity’s obliteration of Gaza and its people. | On March 22nd, this journalist detailed the findings of a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on “Israel’s systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023.” That investigation focused primarily on the hideous, industrial scale rape and sexual abuse of male and female Palestinian detainees in Zionist Occupation Force prisons, a phenomenon so pervasive it can only be dedicated, determined policy, signed off upon and directed by the highest levels of the Israeli government. ■ Reinforcing that horrifying conclusion, buried within the Commission’s report are bombshell passages unequivocally charging the Zionist entity with deliberately committing “genocidal acts” in Gaza, consciously and intentionally “calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians as a group.” The details provided are irresistibly persuasive, and point to Israel being in flagrant breach of both the Rome Statute, and Genocide Convention. In a truly just world, the mainstream media’s mass omertà on this landmark ruling would in itself be a criminal act.

"China’s position on settlement in Ukraine is quite balanced, and we are grateful to our friends for that," Andrey Rudenko noted | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko has slammed statements that Chinese citizens are fighting in Ukraine as absolutely false. [...] On the previous day the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that Beijing had not sent its military for participating in the Ukrainian conflict, with the country’s authorities requesting its citizens to avoid involvement in combat activities. Earlier, information was spread in Ukraine that Chinese citizens allegedly participated in the fighting.

China retaliated Friday to higher U.S. tariffs, slapping 125% levies on U.S. goods, but signaled it would apply no further measures in the future.

💬 "If the U.S. continues to increase tariffs on Chinese exports, China will not respond," China's Ministry of Finance said in a statement announcing the new levies, in a sign that Chinese authorities see no real upside to any further tit-for-tat measures beyond these. "Given the current level of tariffs, U.S. goods exported to China are no longer market-viable," the statement added by way of explanation.

■ Xi warns US will isolate itself (RT)
✅ China Escalates With 125% Tariff On US Imports, Signals Will "Ignore" Future Retaliation (Tyler Durden)

Rockefeller’s 1991 leaked speech will give you the chills. Take a listen and watch carefully.

Zionist Globalists aim to create a world system of financial control in Private hands, able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. pic.twitter.com/SGqxrMZWD2

— Seima kapur (@SeemaJai3) December 18, 2022

China’s retaliation against President Donald Trump’s tariffs includes more export controls on rare earth minerals, which are vital to electronics and battery manufacturing. | The Chinese government said over the weekend that it will maintain its supply of rare earths to the rest of the world stable while limiting U.S. access to the minerals. China is the world’s dominant producer of rare earth minerals, accounting for about 70 percent of the world’s supply at the moment. More precisely, China supplies roughly 60 percent of the raw minerals, but controls almost 90 percent of processing and refining capacity. China controlled 90 percent of the market a decade ago, but alternative suppliers have ramped up production. The Chinese retaliated for this infringement upon their near-monopoly by setting record-high production quotas in a bid to bring prices down and bankrupt their competitors.

■ US delivers Panama Canal ultimatum to China (RT)
■ China’s Rare Metal Ban Could Bring US Military-Industrial Complex to a Grinding Halt: Here’s Why (Sputnik)
■ China announces new extreme retaliation tariffs on US goods after Trump’s 104% taxes take effect (Unilad)

✅ Neither US nor China ready for once-in-a-lifetime trade war (William Pesek)
✅ Trade barriers cannot stop economic globalization: Global Times editorial (Global Times)
✅ Full text: China's Position on Some Issues Concerning China-US Economic, Trade Relations (Global Times Editorial)
✅ The EU's worst nightmare has come true: Washington and Beijing have made a fateful decision (Nadezhda Sarapina)

Asian markets open on a tailspin on Monday with Japan, Korea leading a wild sell-off caused by Washington’s ‘reciprocal tariffs’ policy | Asian markets kicked off the week with a sharp downturn on Monday amid growing jitters over escalating US protectionist tariffs and the ripple effects the tariffs caused all around the world. ● Japanese markets led losses in the region in early trade. The benchmark Nikkei 225 plunged 8.03 percent—its weakest level since October 2023—while the Topix Financial Index tumbled more than 12 percent in a sector-wide sell-off. ● South Korea's Kospi 200 index futures plummeted 6.8 percent, triggering a temporary halt on program-driven sell orders. At 9:12 am local times, automated selling was suspended for five minutes. The benchmark Kospi index plunged more than 4.7 percent during the session. ● Trading in Nikkei 225 and Topix index futures was temporarily halted in early session as frenzied selling triggered circuit breakers.

■ Trump threatens China with additional 50% tariffs if Beijing doesn’t nix retaliatory move (TASS)

China's research vessel is attracting attention as it sails along Australia's southern coast | The Australian government confirmed it is tracking the movements of a Chinese research vessel that many believe is also a spy ship as it sails along the Southern Coast. While the vessel has done nothing considered improper, it is drawing wide attention in the Australian media which prompted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to tell reporters, “I would prefer that it wasn’t there.” ● The Tan Suo Yi Hao [Discovery One] departed Wellington, New Zealand on March 23 and its AIS signal shows it is bound for Sanya, China where it is due on April 30. However, instead of taking a northern course, the vessel transited the Tasman Sea, between New Zealand and Australia, crossed the Bass Strait, and is now traveling along the southern coast of Australia. It has not requested a port stop in Australia.

✅ Australia’s paranoia over China’s research vessel unfounded, it doesn’t have to be this way (Global Times)

China on Friday announced a 34% tariff on all products imported from the U.S., escalating the trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. | The move came two days after President Donald Trump imposed the same tariff on all Chinese imports as part of what he called reciprocal tariffs on a long list of U.S. trade partners. ● Combined with 20% in other levies that Trump has imposed on Chinese goods since returning to office in January, the total U.S. tariff on some Chinese goods is at least 54%. ● Announcing the new tariffs at a White House event Wednesday, Trump singled out China as one of the “nations that treat us badly.” The U.S. has a higher trade deficit with China than with any other country, reaching $295.4 billion last year. ● China, one of the United States’ largest trading partners, urged the Trump administration to immediately cancel the tariffs and “resolve trade disputes through consultations in a manner of equality, respect and reciprocity.”

The BOOK, In Covid’s Wake (Princeton University Press), is a comprehensive assessment of the political responses to the Covid pandemic. Authors Macedo and Lee question why pre-Covid plans were largely ignored, if dissenting voices were treated with fairness, and if the adopted policies actually worked. They examine how governments, influenced by Wuhan’s lockdown, abandoned existing strategies in global pandemics and how these policies disproportionately harmed essential workers and vulnerable, underprivileged families. Science was suddenly caught up in a web of political polarization. They underline the importance of open-mindedness, democracy, and evidence in future crises.

In addition, similar measures will affect Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Cambodia, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, Taiwan, Switzerland, Japan, and other countries | The US government will impose reciprocal tariffs of 34% on imports from China and 20% on goods from the European Union, President Donald Trump announced. ● In addition, similar measures will affect Vietnam (46%), India (26%), Indonesia (32%), Cambodia (49%), Malaysia (24%), South Korea (25%), Thailand (36%), Taiwan (32%), Switzerland (31%), Japan (24%), and other countries.

■ US Imposes Tariffs on All Countries - Trump (Sputnik)

ExcessDeathsAU | Summary for new readers: | The Australian covid response was a joint US military domestic terrorism operation; a live exercise which was war gamed well in advance under the auspices of the Five Eyes intelligence apparatus via the Medical Countermeasures Consortium. ■  ‘Covid’ was not a health event. It was an act of war on civilians. It was not an ‘accident,’ it was not ‘botched,’ it was not a ‘mistake.’ Lives were not ‘saved by the response.’ ■ Anyone who is saying this, or any document that states this, is lying and misdirecting from the truth, that what happened was deliberate, and people were murdered in multiple ways during a global coordinated military operation. ■ The murder began early in 2020 when people were killed in hospitals and care homes using standard protocols throughout the Five Eyes countries (UK, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada) and elsewhere in order to create panic via the illusion of a widespread deadly pandemic, especially for the elderly and vulnerable.

■ The COVID Dossier, Expanded (04/02/25)
■ Sasha Latypova | Summary of Everything and Quick Links, Updated - August 2024
■ Katherine Watt | Learning curve. + Orientation for new readers
+ American Domestic Bioterrorism Program + Tools for dismantling kill box anti-law

Covid-variant © Getty Images

Debbie Lerman | A record of military and intelligence coordination of the global Covid event. This expanded version contains many more countries and details, thanks to reader contributions. | This is a set of facts and references compiled by independent researchers Debbie Lerman and Sasha Latypova. ■ The COVID dossier was originally published on February 4, 2025, the 5-year anniversary of the date on which a novel coronavirus was designated by the Pentagon and by the HHS Secretary in the U.S. as a “national security threat,” leading to no public announcements and no journalistic investigations. ■ We have received a lot of feedback and additional information from all over the world. Big thanks to those who commented and provided references to the global military/intelligence coordination. This is the updated, expanded version of the original Dossier.

💬 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The COVID Dossier is a compilation of the evidence we have amassed over the last three years supporting the following claim: COVID was not a public health event, although it was presented as such to the world’s population. It was a global operation, coordinated through public-private intelligence and military alliances and invoking laws designed for CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear) weapons attacks. [...] [...]

 ■ It is crucially important to understand that Covid was a globally coordinated response, based on legal frameworks intended for biodefense/biowarfare situations. The attack that initiated the global Covid response could have been real, perceived or invented – regardless of the trigger, the lockdown-until-vaccine paradigm originated in the military/intelligence biodefense playbook, not in any scientifically based or epidemiologically established public health plan.[ref]

 ■ This means that nothing about the response – masking, distancing, lockdowns, vaccines – was part of a public health plan to respond to a disease outbreak. Rather, every aspect of the response was intended to induce public panic in order to gain compliance with biodefense operations, culminating with the injection of unregulated mRNA products, which were legally treated as biodefense military countermeasures (MCMs), into billions of human beings.

 ■ Who ordered and directed these operations? Who benefited from them? Who was and still is covering them up? We have been investigating these questions for the last several years, and we hope many who read this will join us moving forward. [...] [...]

The German government plans to nominate Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock as its candidate for the chair of the UN General Assembly during the 2025-26 session, media reports indicated earlier | Just envisioning Annalena Baerbock as chair of the UN General Assembly drew a snap response from Maria Zakharova.

💬 "How could someone with such a limited grasp of reality possibly lead the UN for an entire year? The number of diplomatic disasters she's provoked - thanks to her own ignorance of history, diplomacy, and well, facts - would be enough to make any sane person cringe,” said the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.

Amid reports that the German government plans to nominate Baerbock for the job it’s worth recalling that people labelled her the "world's dumbest foreign minister" for her absurd claims, unprofessionalism expressed in harsh and meaningless statements, and constant mistakes.

In an internal memo, Hegseth called China the 'sole pacing threat' | Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth distributed a memo in mid-March ordering the Pentagon to put its focus on preparing for a war with China, a nuclear-armed power, by “assuming risk” in Europe and other parts of the world, The Washington Post reported on Saturday. ● The Post didn’t publish the full memo, known as the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance, but said it “outlines, in broad and sometimes partisan detail, the execution of President Donald Trump’s vision to prepare for and win a potential war against Beijing and defend the United States from threats in the ‘near abroad,’ including Greenland and the Panama Canal.”

‘Deliberate’ destruction of Turkish-Palestinian hospital has been condemned as being part of Israel’s ‘systematic state terrorism’. | Israel has blown up Gaza’s only specialised cancer treatment hospital, as well as an adjacent medical school, drawing condemnation for again targeting a medical facility, which is banned under international humanitarian law. Friday’s explosion flattened central Gaza’s Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, which had already been severely damaged by Israeli air strikes since October 2023. Footage posted online showed a massive ball of fire and smoke rising from the location after the Israeli military carried out the demolition. It came as Israel announced that it was expanding its operation in the so-called Netzarim Corridor near the hospital, and blocked all movement on Salah al-Din Street.

⚠️REMINDER - The largest COVID-19 “vaccine” safety study ever conducted, involving 99 million individuals, confirmed that the injections are NOT SAFE FOR HUMAN USE:

➊ 610% increased risk of myocarditis following mRNA platform injection.
➋ 378% increased risk of acute… pic.twitter.com/2cJBxuZ5qK

— Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (@NicHulscher) March 16, 2025

President Donald Trump has made a stunning decision regarding the equally stunning "Pre-Emptive Pardons" issued in the final days of the Biden Regime; those Pardons are "void, vacant, and of no further force or effect." | The earliest identifiable public mention about Joe Biden signing documents with an autopen, comes from the Oversight Project, an initiative of the Heritage Foundation. ● On March 6, 2025, they posted on X, stating: "WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE AUTOPEN CONTROLLED THE PRESIDENCY." They went on to say "We gathered every document we could find with Biden's signature over the course of his presidency. All used the same autopen signature except for the announcement that the former President was dropping out of the race last year." [...] The use of an Auto pen by a President to sign a document, order, Bill or anything else, has been treated by most people as allowable since a normal President, being aware of what he's doing, should be able to REMOTELY sign a document. But Joe Biden was **NOT** aware of what he was doing. Based upon his public actions and public appearances He was suffering from what appeared to be advanced Dementia or perhaps advanced Alzheimer's Disease. In some instances, he seemed to have trouble putting together a cohesive sentence when speaking. So the use of the auto pen by Biden Staff, would have bypassed the actual President while issuing signed documents IN HIS NAME. That would be forgery and would make the document invalid.

It is almost impossible to get out on the roads now, all cars are being destroyed. Everything vaguely resembles the events of the Great Patriotic War near Stalingrad. | About 30 NATO officers were trapped in the Kursk region, according to the coordinator of the pro-Russian resistance, citing sources in the underground. Now it becomes clear why Europe was so alarmed. ● During the fighting in the Kursk region, according to the pro-Russian Mykolaiv resistance, about 30 career officers from NATO countries were surrounded. This was announced by the coordinator of the resistance, Sergei Lebedev, referring to information from the underground. ● According to the underground, these officers were engaged in commanding Ukrainian troops on the spot, as well as processing NATO satellite intelligence data and correcting strikes deep into Russian territory.

Mark Carney has been elected as the new leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party | Mark Carney has been elected as the new leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party and is set to become the country’s next prime minister, securing 85,9% of the vote in the party’s leadership election. ● According to the data announced at the party congress, Chrystia Freeland received only 8% of the vote. Canadian government leader in the House of Commons (lower house of parliament) Karina Gould and Liberal MP Frank Baylis secured around 3% each. National TV channels are broadcasting the session. ● Carney will take office as prime minister only after the current head of government Justin Trudeau submits an official letter of resignation to the Governor General of Canada Mary Simon, which is expected in the near future. Simon will then invite Carney to form a government and take the oath of office.

■ Canada will win trade war with US – next PM (RT)

Dr. Mike Yeadon: "There was no pandemic, and the lie was maintained in order to inject... 5.5 billion people with an intentionally dangerous substance, 17 million of whom have died so far." [Dr. Yeadon @ BitChute]

More than 17,000 Brits now claim they have been injured or have had loved ones killed by a Covid jab, according to the latest Government data. | Despite ministers' promises of compensation for those harmed by the vaccines, only 194 have received damages from the official Vaccine Damage Payment Scheme. ● It comes as US scientists identified an alarming syndrome linked to mRNA jabs, those made by the likes of Pfizer and Moderna and which have become the most common type of Covid vaccine used in Britain. ● Called 'post-vaccination syndrome', the condition appears to cause brain fog, dizziness, tinnitus and exercise intolerance, the researchers reported. ● Some sufferers also show distinct biological changes, including differences in immune cells and the presence of coronavirus proteins in their blood, years after taking the shot.

Dr. Regina Watteel | Many countries worldwide have experienced excess all-cause mortality (ACM) that coincides temporally with the COVID-19 mass vaccination campaigns. In a seeming attempt to salvage the “safe and effective” narrative, several studies have emerged to counter the conjecture that the COVID-19 vaccines may increase mortality risk. A recent preprint out of Norway (Dahl et al., 2024) presents one such study. | The authors compare the all-cause mortality rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals aged 18 years or older living in Norway during January 1, 2021 through to December 31, 2023. The study used individual-level data where individuals were categorized as either unvaccinated (received no doses), partially vaccinated (received one or two doses) or fully vaccinated (received three or more doses) from the date of vaccination and onwards. Based on their analysis, the authors conclude that vaccinated individuals had a lower rate of all-cause death during 2021-2023 in Norway, even after accounting for sex, calendar time, county of residence and a high-risk health indicator. The authors cite several other supporting studies that have concluded there was no observed increase in all-cause mortality in vaccinated individuals.