UK - A Christian nurse in England who had been punished for saying “Mister” to a transgender prisoner has been suspended without explanation on a vague allegation of potential “gross misconduct,” according to a Christian rights group. Jennifer Melle last week was summoned to meet with the chief nurse of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust in England, where the Ugandan-born resident of Croydon was told there had been a “potential data breach” after Melle shared her story with media that could amount to “gross conduct,” rights group Christian Concern reported. “Pushed on what the grounds for suspension were for a nurse with an unblemished record, the Chief Nurse refused to state the specifics of the allegations pending a full investigation,” Christian Concern stated. Suspended with full pay and banned from the hospital premises, Melle was told to collect her belongings and was escorted “in tears” from the hospital premises.

GERMANY - Far-Right politicians in Germany could be banned from running for office under plans by the incoming government, echoing a decision in France to block Marine Le Pen from a presidential bid. Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections. “To strengthen the resilience of our democracy, we are withdrawing passive suffrage [the right to contest elections] in cases of multiple convictions of incitement to hatred,” states an extract of the two parties’ draft agreement, according to German newspaper Die Welt. The paper adds that the reforms, which could ban convicted extremists from parties such as the far-Right Alternative for Germany (AfD), are part of efforts to tackle “terrorism, anti-Semitism, hatred and incitement... to hatred”. It comes after Ms Le Pen, the leader of the far-Right National Rally party in France, was banned from politics for five years after a court convicted her of embezzling EU funds.

USA - Let’s be honest — anytime the word “tariff” shows up in the news, most folks either glaze over or get caught up in the shouting matches about trade wars. But if you strip away the noise, something pretty interesting is happening. President Trump’s approach to tariffs isn’t just some off-the-cuff political move; it’s part of a much bigger strategy aimed at resetting the economic playing field. Let’s walk through it. Why are these tariffs happening? The simple answer is leverage.

USA - President Trump just threatened China with a massive new tariff, on top of the new tariff enacted last week, if they don’t back down from their retaliatory 34% tariff they just imposed on the US. He explains: "Yesterday, China issued Retaliatory Tariffs of 34%, on top of their already record setting Tariffs, Non-Monetary Tariffs, Illegal Subsidization of companies, and massive long term Currency Manipulation, despite my warning that any country that Retaliates against the US by issuing additional Tariffs, above and beyond their already existing long term Tariff abuse of our Nation, will be immediately met with new and substantially higher Tariffs, over and above those initially set. Therefore, if China does not withdraw its 34% increase above their already long term trading abuses by tomorrow, April 8th, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL Tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9th. Additionally, all talks with China concerning their requested meetings with us will be terminated! Negotiations with other countries, which have also requested meetings, will begin taking place immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

USA - President Donald Trump has escalated his trade policy by announcing that he will not negotiate with Europe to lift recently imposed tariffs unless they pay “ a large amount of money annually, both for the present and the past.” Trump emphasized his strategy, stating that Europe has “taken advantage” of the United States for decades and that it's now time to level the trade playing field. The president also noted that there will be no talks with China until the $295 billion trade deficit is addressed, while Beijing responded with a 34% tariff on US goods. In a recent post on Truth Social, President Trump defended his trade strategy, declaring: "We have massive financial deficits with China, the European Union, and many others. The only way to fix this problem is through tariffs, which are now bringing tens of billions of dollars into the US. Someday people will realize that tariffs, for the United States of America, are a very beautiful thing!"

EUROPE - The globalist European Union has made a bold move in response to President Trump’s efforts to reshape the global trade order, though the commander-in-chief may not be entirely satisfied. As The Gateway Pundit reported, Trump has escalated his trade policy by announcing that he will not negotiate with the EU to lift recently imposed tariffs and make a deal with the bloc unless they pay “a large amount of money annually, both for the present and the past.” Trump went on to note that the EU has taken advantage of America for years and that it is time to finally level the playing field.

USA - President Trump insisted there would be no pause in his tariffs as he demanded China back down in a trade war or face a further charge of 50 per cent. Trump refused to negotiate with Beijing over previous demands for it to scrap 34 per cent retaliatory tariffs due on Tuesday. His extra tariffs would take US costs on Chinese imports to 104 per cent. Despite some of the worst market turmoil under any new US president, and calls from key allies to rethink the policy, Trump told reporters he was “not looking” at pausing the tariffs. Speaking alongside Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who was visiting the White House, Trump said: “We can’t be the stupid people anymore. We’ve been ripped off and taken advantage of by many countries over the years, and can’t do it anymore. Just can’t do it anymore.” He rejected an offer from the EU of “zero for zero” tariffs on industrial goods, claiming the bloc had been “formed to damage America” and attacking Brussels’ regulations, “which are just designed for one reason — that you can’t sell your product”.

USA - A tweet repeating a false claim about a 90-day pause on tariffs contributed to momentary chaos. Wall Street was braced for chaos when the US markets opened for trading on Monday, but no one could have anticipated the $4 trillion meltdown that ensued. An unsourced claim that Donald Trump was mulling a 90-day pause on the sweeping tariffs he imposed on virtually all of America’s trading partners sent stocks flying upwards before plummeting back down at breakneck speed. In the space of minutes, trillions had been added to and wiped off some of the most sophisticated financial markets in the world.

USA - The United States and Iran have agreed to meet for high-level talks over Tehran’s nuclear programme for the first time in nearly a decade. Donald Trump announced that the US is starting “direct talks” with Iran and confirmed that discussions would begin on Saturday in Oman. This morning, Iran pushed back, saying there would be “indirect talks” through intermediaries, but confirmed that they will be sending a delegation to Muscat. Iran will be represented by Abbas Araghchi, its foreign minister while Steve Witkoff, Mr Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, will head the American delegation. The intermediary will be Badr al-Busaidi, Oman’s foreign minister. Mr Araghchi said: “It is as much an opportunity as it is a test. The ball is in America’s court.”

GERMANY - German poll shocker: Alice Weidel’s Right-Wing AfD Surges to the Top and Is Now Tied with Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU. After the rather disappointing results in the latest elections in Germany that saw Friedrich Merz and his CDU Globalist ‘conservatives’ as the most-voted party, there are increasing signs that the German people aren’t letting up. After Merz betrayed his voters and sought a coalition with the very same horrible parties (SPD and Greens) that led the failed and unpopular Olaf Scholz government we learned that Poll Shows 73% of German Voters ‘Feel Deceived’ by Incoming Chancellor Merz’s Spending Spree Plans – Right-Wing AFD Party Keeps Rising and It’s Within 4 Points of ‘Conservative’ CDU.

FRANCE - Almost any MEP in Brussels could be prosecuted. Only Eurosceptics like Le Pen are. Technical misuse of European funding is difficult to completely avoid, and outright corruption scandals are frequent. Was Marine Le Pen guilty of improperly funnelling money from the European Parliament into her party’s coffers? Probably. Heaven knows there was a lot of it going on in Brussels. Should she have been disqualified as a presidential candidate in consequence? Absolutely not. Banning popular opposition candidates is what dictators do. We have come to expect such chicanery from Russia, Belarus, Iran, Venezuela. But France? We often talk of elections being “rigged”, but falsifying results is technically very difficult. The favoured tool of autocrats is therefore to ban opponents from standing, often by having them convicted of some infraction or other.

UK - The US no longer seems to be reliable. That’s partly about Trump’s destructive and bizarre personality: nobody, and perhaps not even the president himself, seems to know what he is going to do next. It’s partly about his values. He likes strongmen, so he is naturally drawn to autocrats not democrats, which puts him at odds with a western alliance whose raison d’etre was in part the promotion of democracy. Churchill supposedly said that America could always be counted on to do the right thing once it had exhausted all the other possible options, but I fear it can no longer be counted on at all. That’s why, when we have to choose, we should go with Europe.

UK - Britain this morning became the latest nation forced to take a dose of Donald Trump's economic 'medicine' as the FTSE 100 tanked on opening to its lowest level in a year. Amid massive hits to Asian markets overnight London followed suit this morning in the wake of the US president's decision to levy import taxes on friends and foes alike last week. The FTSE 100 is down 5 per cent in trading today, having seen its worst day since the pandemic on Friday. Manufacturers with high exposure to the US market like Airbus and Rolls-Royce, and banks, were among those worse hit.

USA - President Donald Trump on Friday posted a video on his social media accounts of a US military strike against Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen who have been targeting American ships in the Red Sea. “These Houthis gathered for instructions on an attack. Oops, there will be no attack by these Houthis! They will never sink our ships again!” he posted. Since 2023, the Houthis have shot at United States warships at least 174 times and commercial vessels at least 145 times in the Suez Canal, Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden, according to the White House. After a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas broke down last month, the Houthis threatened to resume striking at ships traversing the Suez Canal, Red Sea, and the Gulf of Aden. Trump then ordered the US military to strike the Houthis until they stop firing missiles and drones at American ships. The campaign, called Operation Rough Rider, began on March 15.

USA - Last time renowned attorney Larry Klayman was on USAWatchdog.com, he pointed out there is a full-blown, legal civil war happening in the court system. Klayman, founder of Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch USA, says there are now more than 140 federal court cases trying to stop or delay President Trump’s agenda. "The Trump Administration did get a win this past week with canceling DEI training for teachers, but legal battles are still mounting. Now, the civil war is turning hot with words, organized paid protests and violence. You saw what they tried with President Trump on two occasions? I don’t think this was random. We still don’t know anything about the assassination attempts. Then there is what they are doing out in the streets right now. They are calling for violence, and they are, in fact, causing violence.” In closing, Klayman says if the violence gets bad enough and the Left starts burning down cities along with Tesla dealerships, President Trump may have to impose harsh measures to regain law and order. Klayman says, “If violence breaks out in a bigger way, Trump can declare martial law."