Mammon Comes to Gaza and Other Trump Humiliations
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Mammon Comes to Gaza and Other Trump Humiliations
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by Scott Creighton
Took a while to explain the reason for this to ChatGPT but it finally understood what I was doing and when I mentioned the likes of Bill Hicks, Jon Stewart and SNL then it decided it was alright to make a political satire image showing TrumpyBear and Bibi worshiping at the feet of the new god in Gaza... Mammon.
It was an interesting experience convincing it to make this and it worked out I think.
from Aletho News
On a December 28th twitter space called “Israel’s Historic Recognition of Somaliland”, Dan Diker, the president of the Benjamin Netanyahu aligned Israeli think tank, “Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs” gave further evidence that Israel’s recognition of “Somaliland”, a breakaway region of Somalia was done to use the region as a dumping ground for ethnically cleansed Palestinians in Gaza.
In the space, Diker was asked, “What did you think was the main reason for Israel to break with this usual line of the international community (and recognize Somaliland) and be the first to do so?”
In response, one of the reasons Diker gave was, “I do know that our friends in Somaliland made a very generous offer privately and in the last, I would say in the last months, it even reached the desk of the President of the United States, of their willingness to absorb or to create communities for hundreds of thousands even beyond a million up to a million and half Gazans”.
Dan Diker added, “Somaliland, in our understanding, is really the only country, now country, that stepped up to the plate to absorb Gazans… Somaliland’s offer can make a very important contribution to the stability of Gaza for those who choose to stay in Gaza and for those who choose to rebuild their lives in another country”.
Previously, the Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, reported that “Somaliland Foreign Minister, Abdirahman Dahir Adan, “does not rule out absorbing Gazan residents,” but said that, “the most important thing for us is to receive recognition”.
The Israeli newspaper Ynet also reported that, “The territory (Somaliland) has recently been mentioned as a possible destination for Gazans, with officials there saying they would be willing to absorb ‘one million Gazans,’ though no formal agreement has been announced.”
Now Dan Diker confirmed that Somaliland agreed to “absorb” up to “a million and a half Gazans” and was, “the only country, now country, that stepped up to the plate to absorb Gazans,” which was one of the main reasons Israel was the first UN member sate to recognize the breakaway region as a country.
After Israel announced its recognition of Somaliland, the Israeli journalist Amit Segal boasted that, “Somaliland was supposed to — and may still — absorb Gazans”.
Trump, at his latest press conference with Netanyahu claimed that if given the chance “half of Gaza would leave,” signalling support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing plan...
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(Disarming Hamas and the Palestinian resistance before IDF withdrawal and the recognition of Palestinian statehood is ludicrous. You are talking about a demand from a nation who is currently still engaged in an ethnic cleansing at best and a genocide at worst demanding the targeted people give up their only means of self defense. It is an outrageous demand on it's face and should be rejected out of hand by any honest reporter discussing the issues.)
from al Mayadeen English
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, says any discussion over the future of its weapons is inseparable from the broader Palestinian national struggle, rejecting attempts to frame disarmament as a standalone security demand detached from occupation and statehood.
Speaking to Russia’s RIA Novosti on Monday, Hamas official Taher al-Nunu said the issue of arms is being addressed as part of a wider Palestinian political dialogue.
"This is part of the national issues we are discussing," al-Nunu said, stressing that the movement's weapons are not an end in themselves but are directly tied to "Israel's" ongoing occupation of Palestinian territory...
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by Scott Creighton
There wont be Shock and Awe in Venezuela. It's not going to happen no matter how bad TrumpyBear and Little Nazi Marco want to do it oh behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. You see...
... a funny thing happened on the way to regime change.
Donald Trump has been steadily trying to improve access to something called rare earth elements (REE) since he returned to office in Jan. of 2025. Why? Because China placed severe restrictions on such exports (samarium, graphite, tungsten, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium, yttrium, antimony, gallium, germanium and others) back in Dec. of 2024 as a response to the U.S. placing harsh sanctions on Chinese semiconductors. China added several more elements to their sanction list in Jan. when Trump came to power and continued with the semiconductor restrictions.
These REEs are critical in the development of everything from cellphones to armor piercing ammunition and AI missile guidance systems. Without them the MIC's endless money glitch grinds to a halt. Now do you understand why he's been so focused on these silly little rocks? Greenland is supposedly full of some of these REEs which explains why TrumpyBear wanted to invade them early on. How's that working out?
In April China made it even worse by adding even more restrictions and elements to the list.
by Scott Creighton
Nope. The Nazis wont have peace. Not if they can help it. So as peace talks were making headway, Ukraine launched 90 or so kamakazi drones to blow up the formal resident of President Putin.
'... Trump hosted Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky in Miami on Sunday for the latest round of discussions on a possible peace proposal for Russia. Asked whether Trump was right to assert that the world is now much closer to peace, Peskov said that “certainly” was the case.
During his joint press conference with Zelensky, Trump said the deal was 95% ready, even though he personally didn’t like to measure progress in percentages. “We’re doing very well,” he added. “We could be very close.” RT
Nope. None of that peace stuff. F-you says the Nazis in Ukraine.
'US President Donald Trump was “shocked” by the Ukrainian attack on the state residence of President Vladimir Putin, stating he did not foresee such “crazy actions,” according to Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov.
The presidential advisor made the remarks to Russian media after a call between Putin and Trump on Monday. Shortly before the conversation became known to the public, Moscow said that the Ukrainian military targeted Putin’s state residence in Novgorod Region with more than 90 kamikaze drones.
“The Russian side made it clear that such reckless actions would certainly not go unanswered,” Ushakov stated. “The US president, according to Putin, was shocked by this news and expressed outrage, stating that he could not have imagined such crazy actions on the part of Kiev,” he added.' RT
I doubt Voldamort (I know but that is what I call him, so there) Zelensky had anything to do with this. It's literally the Nazis from Right Sector or Azov who are calling the shots over there and I bet they did it, well obviously they did it to scuttle the peace process.
Now, did they act on their own due to their rabid hatred of Russian or were they compelled by European business interests or American MIC asshats?
You be the judge. Just don't forget, once again, Ukraine scrubs any possible peace deal, once again.
(This ain't over.)
from Drop Site News
Since President Donald Trump falsely proclaimed the dawn of a new era of peace and harmony in the Middle East in early October, Palestinians in Gaza have lived in an Israeli-imposed purgatory. The scorched-earth terror bombings and full-spectrum blockade on any life essentials entering Gaza have been replaced by sporadic, though daily, Israeli strikes and a trickle of food and medicine deliveries in quantities far below the terms agreed to in the October 10 “peace” deal. What is happening in Gaza is not a ceasefire, but a lower intensity, slower-paced killing operation by an Israeli regime daring Palestinians to fight back.
As the White House struggles to convince even a single nation to deploy forces in Gaza on a mission to disarm the Palestinian resistance, Hamas negotiators say there has been no formal communication from the U.S. on how it intends to proceed on any of the terms laid out in Trump’s sweeping plan. There have been no substantive discussions on how Gaza will be governed, who will be in charge of its internal security, when or how Israeli forces will withdraw, and what role Palestinians will play in determining their own destiny.
The fact remains that Hamas and other Palestinian factions did not sign an agreement beyond a ceasefire, exchange of captives, and an initial framework for the redeployment or withdrawal of Israeli forces from some parts of Gaza. Officially, there is no deal on a “second phase.” Moreover, several senior Hamas officials told Drop Site that there currently are no substantive negotiations happening with Palestinians outside of a process that appears aimed at using Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas to give the appearance of Palestinian endorsement...
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from PressTV
From Gaza to Caracas, from Tehran to Beirut, wars do not erupt in a vacuum. They are designed, justified, funded, and normalized by people in positions of power who turn mass death into policy, ideology into weaponry, and diplomacy into cover for extermination.
Over the past two years, tens of thousands of civilians—overwhelmingly Palestinians—have been killed, maimed, starved, or displaced, not only by bombs and bullets, but by speeches, vetoes, arms licenses, financial donations, intelligence sharing, and media propaganda.
This is not merely the story of one war or one regime. It is the story of a transatlantic and global network of politicians, billionaires, lobbyists, and ideologues who have actively aided and defended genocide in Gaza and fueled wars elsewhere—from Iran and Yemen to Venezuela and beyond.
Through direct military support, diplomatic shielding, economic pressure, and rhetorical dehumanization, these war-mongering actors have helped transform international law into a hollow slogan and mass killing into an acceptable tool of policy.
As 2025 draws to a close, here is the list of figures—across governments, parties, and continents—whose actions, remarks, and advocacy materially contributed to wars and mass killings this year.
They are the ones who planned, choreographed, enabled, and facilitated war crimes, and then used their power and influence to conceal them...
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(Bibi! Let my people go!)
from Daily Sabah
The number of requests to relocate abroad by workers at multinational companies operating in Israel rose in the past year in reaction to its two-year genocidal campaign in Gaza, a report showed on Sunday.
The Israel Advanced Technology Industries Association (IATI) found that 53% of companies reported an increase in relocation requests from Israeli employees, noting this was "a trend that may, over time, harm the local innovation engine and Israel's technological leadership."
The tech sector accounts for about 20% of Israel's gross domestic product (GDP), 15% of its jobs and more than half of its exports. The hundreds of multinationals in Israel include Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, Amazon, Meta and Apple...
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(Did China oppose the creation of South Sudan or Rojava or the breakup of Yugoslavia?)
from Daily Sabah
China on Monday joined a growing list of countries opposing Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian saying Beijing is concerned by the move and firmly rejects it.
Recalling rejection and condemnation of the move by various nations and multinational blocs, Lin said China "firmly supports Somalia’s sovereignty, reunification, and territorial integrity," as Somaliland is an "inalienable part" of the country.
Beijing opposes any move that splits Somalia’s territory. The Somaliland question is entirely Somalia’s internal affair and should be resolved by the Somalian people in a way that fits Somalia’s national conditions.
Lin said countries "outside the region should stop inappropriate interference. No country should aid and abet separatist forces in other countries for its own selfish gains."...
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Can I do better than BadEmpanada? I don't know, lets find out. Also, Glenn Beck can't say 'pogrom' and keeps saying 'the Jew' like he's at some KKK meeting down on the docks.
BadEmpanada https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvEUyAr4aXw
the quiz https://zionism.wtf/#zionist-or-nazi
Indifference in America https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/12/indifference-in-america-beatitudes-of.html
Glenn Beck clip https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/12/dear-lord-does-glenn-beck-love-jew-his.html
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(A little good news for the holidays)
from Mondoweiss
The United States seems to be poised to reevaluate its tactics in implementing President Donald Trump’s plan for the Gaza Strip. It seems they are considering installing a Palestinian technocrat government and Palestinian police force before assembling their International Stabilization Force (ISF), which they are finding no country wants to be part of.
While this remains very far from acknowledging the rights of the Palestinian people, and even farther from realizing those rights in practice, it is a real vindication for the strategic decisions that the assortment of Palestinian factions — not only Hamas — made in the wake of the diminishment of Israel’s genocide in October.
According to recent reports, the governments of Egypt, Türkiye, and Qatar have managed to make the Trump administration understand that their push for quick Palestinian disarmament in Gaza and the subsequent occupation of the Strip by an international force that would not include Palestinians is a non-starter...
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by Scott Creighton
Let's begin with level flight.
And now for a little post-Christmas AI slop (?) to mark the passing of the old to the New Year of Indifference in America.
by Scott Creighton
Complications from the flu or the mRNA flu vaccine? The world will never know. So many young people dying from heart attacks these days.
'Mickey Lee, a former "Big Brother" houseguest known for her vibrant personality and bold gameplay, has died, her family announced in a social media post shared Friday. She was 35.
"With profound sadness, the family of Mickey Lee announces her transition on Christmas in the early evening," the statement posted to Lee's official Instagram account said. Her family said Lee "captured the hearts of audiences nationwide" during her appearance on "Big Brother" and will be remembered for the joy she brought to fans and loved ones.
Earlier this month, Lee's family and supporters launched a GoFundMe campaign after she suffered a series of cardiac arrests tied to complications from the flu...' CBS
Myocarditis or pericarditis? We wont ever know. It's a shame either way. So many young people having heart attacks these days you would think someone would want to get to the bottom of it. But no. Unfortunately not.
by Scott Creighton (H/T AuntBB)
OMG Whitney Webb! Here's a bit of Glenn Beck's stellar work from a couple years ago when he was proudly standing with Glorious Israel (already started their genocide at that point)
Notice how scholar Beck pronounces the word 'pogrom' as 'progrom' and thinks this video will help him suck up to the supremacist Zionists in Israel as he begs for citizenship.
Notice also, as he is asking for citizenship and sucking up to the Zionists, he keeps using the term 'the Jew' like klansmen and skinheads do in their rallies down by the docks. Is this Glenn trying to dog-whistle to one side of the Republican party while sucking up to the other?
This is funny, Whitney. How many interviews did you give this guy?
Yes the collapse is coming but no they wont give in to the multi-polar world order to save this nation. It's destruction is the point. It is the goal and current and former politicos can't bring themselves to see it.
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Why aren't people talking about the missing 'tens of thousands' of missing CP videos reportedly in the Epstein files as mentioned by Pam Bondi back in June of this year? Where are the Polaroid photos Micheal Wolf mentioned a couple months ago? I have a theory that someone back in July of this year saw what was coming: the Netanyahu Gaza 2035 plan being imposed on Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and perhaps even the U.S. and decided to remove the compromised candidate who would be blackmailed into allowing all of this to happen. This Christmas video lays all that out for you.
Gaza 2035 https://www.archpaper.com/2024/05/benjamin-netanyahu-unveils-regional-plan-free-trade-zone-rail-service-neom/
Project Sunrise https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trumps-son-in-law-jared-kushner-pitches-112bn-plan-to-turn-gaza-rubble-into-a-tech-hub/articleshow/126109928.cms
Israel knew a year before Oct 7 2023 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html
The stand down order https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7825rk8j9o
Hannibal Directive exposed https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-07/israel-hannibal-directive-kidnap-hamas-gaza-hostages-idf/104224430
Tens of thousands of videos https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-jeffrey-epstein-pam-bondi-trump-fa39193d5b5ff91970428bf077a5ce44
Maria Farmer interview https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-50472828
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Trump Bombing Syria and Kushner's Gaza 2035 Plan for Greater Israel
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On Candace Owens, Alex (Di$info) Jones and Epstein Un-redacted Epstein Files
Candace video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1oqQbR_bYs&t=1354s
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I Think 600,000 Dead in Gaza is an Accurate Number and This is Why
PizzaBaller https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/visiting-gaza-regions-top-catholic-official-says-theres-no-hunger-urges-pressure-on-hamas/
Skewering History https://arena.org.au/politics-of-counting-gazas-dead/
Albernese https://www.facebook.com/trtworld/videos/un-rapporteur-albanese-suggests-680000-may-be-actual-death-toll-of-palestinians-/769482529259232/
1.6 Million Food Insecurity https://www.who.int/news/item/19-12-2025-un-agencies-welcome-news-that-famine-has-been-pushed-back-in-the-gaza-strip-but-warn-fragile-gains-could-be-reversed-without-increased-and-sustained-support
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(ISIS was created to help Obama justify a re-invasion of Iraq and then used as a proxy army in Syria to regime change that country. Do you remember all the fake beheading videos?a How about the CGI burning man in the cage stunt? Even ABC News had to report the videos were probably fake but they then claimed the beheadings took place off camera... for some unknown reason. ISIS was OUR creation much like al Qaeda and al Nusra was. Isn't it funny how much Trump hates Obama and he was elected to get us away from the kinds of shit ObamaGod pulled and here he is repeating Barack's bullshit trick using 'ISIS' to justify bombing Syria in order to prevent the Syrians from taking their country back from the al Qaeda terrorists we installed?)
'Many analysts and investigators have assessed, based in part on some freed hostages' debriefings and also on intelligence collection, that the seven ISIS killings were likely perpetrated off camera... (meaning the videos were FAKE)
... Another indication the executions were carried out off camera is that Jihadi John has never drawn blood despite being shown a half-dozen times crossing his blade across the neck of a Western or Japanese hostage -- even when he has delivered as many as eight strokes with his large combat knife. Each time, the screen darkens just as he begins to cut and then jumps to a scene with the victim's head atop their body.' ABC News 2015
from al Jazeera
The United States military “hit the ISIS [ISIL] thugs in Syria”, President Donald Trump has said, a week after two US soldiers and an interpreter were killed in Syria’s Palmyra city.
In a speech Friday evening in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Trump said he “ordered a massive strike on the terrorists that killed our three great patriots last week”.
“It was very successful. It was precision,” the president added. “We hit every site flawlessly and we are restoring peace through strength all over the world.”
Jordan’s air force also carried out strikes as part of the operation in southern Syria, the army confirmed Saturday...
A Syrian security source told AFP that the US strikes targeted ISIL cells in Syria’s vast Badia desert including in Homs, Deir Az Zor and Raqqa provinces, and did not include ground operations...
Al Jazeera’s Ayman Oghanna, reporting from Damascus, said the strikes hit central and northeastern parts of the country. Local sources in Palmyra and Raqqa told Al Jazeera they heard the sounds of fighter jets and huge explosions throughout the night...
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from Middle East Eye
The Israeli army on Friday shelled a school being used as a shelter, where displaced Palestinian families had gathered for a wedding, killing at least six people, including a five-month-old baby.
The Palestinian civil emergency service said several people were also wounded when an Israeli tank shells hit the second floor of the Gaza Martyrs School in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
Witnesses reported that an Israeli tank had advanced into the area and approached the school before firing.
They also said Israeli forces blocked ambulance and civil defence teams from reaching the site for more than two hours, delaying the evacuation of victims.
Civil emergency services added that they were only able to recover the bodies after the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs intervened with Israeli authorities...
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(I asked Google AI what gives the U.S. the authority to sanction other nations and it came back with an explanation of specific U.S. laws that give the PRESIDENT authority IN THE U.S. to impose sanctions... but failed to answer my question. What gives the U.S. international authority to sanction other countries? Why should any other nation respect those declared sanctions as if they are legitimate international law? The UNSC can issue sanctions like they try to do against Israel all the time but the U.S. unilaterally imposing a sanction against Venezuela because TrumpyBear wants to steal their oil? That's just piracy. Is it any wonder that other nations are turning away from the U.S. these days and turning to countries like Russia and China? They don't unilaterally sanction anyone to my knowledge. This is absurdly illegal and immoral.)
from Daily Sabah
The U.S. seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela on Saturday, a move Caracas denounced as “theft and kidnapping,” as Washington intensified its pressure campaign, U.S. officials said.
It was the second time in two weeks that U.S. forces had interdicted a tanker in the region and came days after President Donald Trump announced a blockade of "sanctioned oil vessels" heading to and leaving Venezuela.
"In a pre-dawn action early this morning on Dec. 20, the U.S. Coast Guard, with the support of the Department of War, apprehended an oil tanker that was last docked in Venezuela," U.S. Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem said in a post on X.
The post was accompanied by a nearly eight-minute video of aerial footage that showed a helicopter hovering just above the deck of a large tanker at sea.
Caracas slammed the seizure as theft and kidnapping, saying "those responsible for these serious events will answer to justice and to history for their criminal conduct."
A post from Homeland Security identified the vessel as the Centuries and said it was "suspected of carrying oil subject to U.S. sanctions."
Centuries is a Chinese-owned, Panama-flagged oil tanker, according to TankerTrackers, an online service monitoring oil shipments and storage...
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by Scott Creighton
So TrumpyBear's Justice Department jesters released what they are calling the 'Epstein files' and of course, as we all expected, they are incomplete and redacted (some 500 pages of the incomplete files are comically redacted and look ridiculous) and they are also not in a searchable downloadable format.
These were all conditions of the law congress passed regarding the release of these files and what the American people got is shamelessly, obviously and woefully incomplete.
Kinda like Trump's sex organs.
Over at Secular Talk, Kyle gives you a breakdown of what they did release and how it doesn't measure up in any meaningful way (also like Trump's organs)
We don't need a fake undercover video from from what's his name or a statement from the guy who said the dead homeless guy was his brother Jeffrey to know the release has been sanitized to protect the guilty. But if you do, go watch Kyle's video I guess.
(Israel is just stealing Gaza right out from under the nose of the world as the rest of humanity demands action to stop them, TrumpyBear (because of the 300 million given to him by the Adelsons) is aiding them in their genocide and ethnic cleansing. It's obscene. I have never seen a more vile president in the White House than Donald Trump. Vile and corrupt.)
from Drop Site News
Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on October 10, Israel has been consolidating its control of over 50% of Gaza and—according to new research by Forensic Architecture—physically altering the geography of the land. Through a combination of the construction of military infrastructure alongside the destruction of existing buildings, Israel appears to be laying the groundwork to establish a permanent presence in the majority of the Gaza Strip.
Israel has constructed at least 13 new military outposts inside Gaza since the ceasefire—primarily located along the yellow line, in eastern Khan Younis, and near the border with Israel, according to analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture.
“Israel is doing what it always does, and what it historically has done best: establish ‘facts on the ground,’ incrementally rather than spectacularly, and make them permanent once those with influence to force it to reverse course either lose interest, decide that the cost of confronting Israel is not worth the price, or come out in open support of Israeli violations. Israel is in no rush and prepared to play the long game,” Mouin Rabbani, co-editor of Jadaliyya and a former UN official who worked as a senior analyst on Israel-Palestine for the International Crisis Group, told Drop Site after reviewing a summary of the Forensic Architecture findings...
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by Scott Creighton
It's official, the 2 U.S. service members killed in Syria were from our al TANF base in southern Syria where 'U.S. forces train and advise SFA soldiers on various military operations, including checkpoint operations and air assault drills' source
That's right folks, al TANF was where we orchestrated the regime change in Syria via our proxy armies consisting of terrorists from 'FSA, moderate rebels(many groups: Ahrar Al Sham, Jaish al Islam etc), more radical groups like Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham HTS(ex Al-Nusra)' source
If you go over to the Live Conflict Map: Syria you will see those 'rebels' listed above, the terrorists from al Qaeda and ISIS, now control the whole of Syria west of the Euphrates river... you know... what is left of Syria that the Kurdish terrorists didn't take for Greater Kurdistan.
TrumpyBear claims the two servicemen were killed 'near Palmyra' which is, if you look at a map, right on the edge of the area we controlled for over a decade as the regime change proxy terrorist campaign took shape.
(But of course it's all about money, all about Business. What else does Trump care about? Isaacman was born Jewish though he claims he doesn't practice. He is linked professionally to Elon Musk's Starlink fiasco so of course he will be using Starlink in NASA much more now since the grift and the looting is just ignored in America. Everyone in charge in Trump's fascist world is a billionaire businessman or a freak side-show phony like RFK Jr., Kash and Hegseth. Just like what they tried to set up in Venezuela after our coup in 2002. They stole the election folks. Kamala beat him so they stole the election so Big Business could come out of the shadows once and for all and run the country the way they run their corrupt businesses. Here's another example.)
from NBC
NASA’s new leader, billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman, is making his priorities for the space agency clear in his first days on the job.
Isaacman was sworn in Thursday as the 15th administrator of NASA. The same day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing NASA to return astronauts to the moon by 2028, begin the development of a permanent outpost on the lunar surface by 2030, and lay the foundations for future exploration of Mars.
The order will likely provide a roadmap for Isaacman and NASA...
... Under Isaacman, NASA is expected to continue its push toward more commercialization.Companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin are set to play a critical role in the space agency's efforts to return to the moon, and Isaacman said other private space firms will support the agency’s lunar ambitions, as well.
Trump's executive order on space policy calls for developing a “vibrant commercial space economy through the power of American free enterprise,” and outlines a plan to wind down the International Space Station by 2030 and launch commercial space stations in its place...
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by Scott Creighton
Looking at Trump's idiotic plans for his new ballroom and considering he just fired the architect he originally hired to design it... I don't think he is building a ballroom. You don't need a T-crane of that size for a ballroom. I started thinking about this after looking at some images of the construction site then I found a video on the subject from a couple days ago. This person goes way in depth looking at investors and contractors working on the project and comes to the conclusion that what they are actually doing is creating a $350,000,000 AI data center with a nifty ballroom on top.
I agree with her conclusions. Seems to me a ballroom doesn't cost that much and the contractors involved are clearly not there to install hardwood floors and 10-layer crown molding.
Check out the Drey Dossier's video on the subject and tell me what you think. BTW, go over and give her a like and sub if you agree. Lotta research went into this work.
from PressTV
Hamas has condemned the “brutal” Israeli shelling of a school in Gaza City on Friday, which killed several Palestinians, calling it another “deliberate” war crime and a blatant violation of the ceasefire.
In a statement on Saturday, the Gaza-based resistance group also called out the “international silence and failure” to stop these crimes.
“The artillery strike carried out by the fascist Israeli occupation army on a school sheltering displaced civilians in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, which resulted in the killings of several citizens, most of them children, is a brutal crime against innocent civilians and a flagrant, repeated violation of the ceasefire agreement,” read the statement.
The terrorist Israeli regime, it added, “continues its violations of the ceasefire by deliberately and continuously targeting civilians in the Gaza Strip, leaving more than 400 martyrs since the agreement was announced over two months ago, amid an international silence and failure to act against these crimes.”...
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(4.1 million Americans are projected to quit the ACA program as a result of the Republican inaction. That will have an effect on health insurance premium costs across the board as the greedy companies seek to make up for the profit margin loss caused by their departure and other insurance companies not effected by their exit from the marketplace will surely use it as cover to jack up their rates as well. Not a good week for healthcare in America which is already wildly overpriced.)
from CBS
Millions of Americans are bracing for higher health costs in 2026, as subsidies that help them pay for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act are set to expire on December 31.
Experts warn that a failure in Congress to extend the tax credits could be financially devastating for individual policyholders, while also raising health care costs as a whole. Roughly 22 million Americans receive the ACA subsidies, which were created in 2021 to lower households' monthly premiums.
New data from investment adviser SmartAsset projects how much people around the U.S. with an ACA plan would have paid on average for coverage in 2025 if they hadn't received the enhanced subsidies. As the analysis shows, monthly premiums for the government health insurance would've been hundreds of dollars higher.
In Mississippi, where around 11% of residents are enrolled in an ACA plan, participants would have seen their average monthly premiums jump from $41 to $605, a 1,376% increase, SmartAsset found. In West Virginia, enrollees' premiums would have risen an average of 1,058%.
A spokesperson for SmartAsset said the analysis captures 2025 costs, but noted the data amounts to a "close approximation" of how much more people with ACA coverage could expect to pay next year without the tax credits. ..
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from PressTV
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has condemned the United States' recent sanctions on two of its judges.
On Thursday, the ICC described Washington's actions against Judge Gocha Lordkipanidze of Georgia and Judge Erdenebalsuren Damdin of Mongolia as a "flagrant attack" on the independence of an impartial judicial institution.
"These sanctions are a flagrant attack against the independence of an impartial judicial institution which operates pursuant to the mandate conferred by its States Parties from across regions," the ICC said in a statement.
In its statement, the ICC warned that threatening judges for upholding the law jeopardizes the entire international legal framework.
It emphasized that such measures undermine the rule of law and reaffirmed its support for its personnel and the victims of atrocities.
The sanctions were announced by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who accused the judges of being "directly engaged" in what he termed the "illegitimate targeting of Israel."
He claimed they participated in efforts to investigate Israeli nationals without Israel's consent...
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from PressTV
The Venezuelan ambassador to the United Nations has condemned US President Donald Trump’s claims about the ownership of Venezuela’s territory and resources, saying he is seeking to revive 19th-century imperialism and turn the Latin American country into a colony.
Samuel Moncada made the remarks on Thursday, two days after Trump ordered a blockade of oil tankers transiting Venezuela and alleged that the nation had stolen US “oil, land and other assets.”
“President Trump intends to turn back the clock of history and impose a colony on Venezuela,” Moncada said during a UN General Assembly meeting marking the International Day Against Colonialism in All Its Forms and Manifestations...
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from Daily Sabah
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Wednesday said Türkiye will continue its efforts on every front to ensure that the atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza are not forgotten and that justice is ultimately served, reaffirming Ankara’s unwavering support for the Palestinian people.
“We will continue our struggle on every front to ensure that what has happened in Gaza is not forgotten and that justice is served,” Erdoğan said. “We stand with the Palestinian people.”
Speaking at a culture and arts awards ceremony at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Erdoğan said attempts to silence reporting from Palestine have failed, as conscientious journalists continue to expose the truth despite pressure and intimidation. He stressed that Türkiye remains steadfast in standing with Palestinians “without bowing or bending.”...
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Saying a U.S. president is fascist is like saying ice cubes would be a hot commodity in hell. It's obvious. But Trump is a special kind of fascism. He's out in the open like Pinochet or Mussolini. Every recent event has been exposed as him and his administration running the country on behalf of Big Business. Every single one. So much for populism.
The Trumpening https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Trumpening
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The Interview, Normalizing Evil and Co-opting Jewish Suffering by Zionists
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from Politico
The House passed a conservative health care bill Wednesday evening that would not address expiring Affordable Care Act tax credits, all but guaranteeing the enhanced subsidies will lapse at the end of the year.
The 216-211 vote on the legislation also capped a dramatic day for Speaker Mike Johnson, who can hardly call the measure’s passage a victory after spending the balance of the day managing an open revolt by his moderate flank.
Ultimately, the bill is dead on arrival in the Senate and will do little to quell a major intraparty split over the future of the subsidies, with many House Republicans vowing to continue to negotiate a compromise in 2026.
The health policy research group KFF estimates premium payments will increase by an average of $1,016 next year if the enhanced tax credits expire Dec. 31...
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from the AP
Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced pandemic-era subsidy that lowers health insurance costs for millions of Americans.
The stunning move came the same day that House Republican leaders pushed to passage a health care bill that does not address the soaring monthly premiums that millions of people will soon endure. Those premium hikes will occur because the tax credits for those who buy insurance through the Affordable Care Act expire at year’s end.
The developments set the stage for a renewed intraparty clash over health care in January, something Republican leaders had been working hard to avoid.
The moderate Republicans were able to force the issue by signing a petition, led by Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York, to vote on a bill that would extend the ACA subsides for three years...
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from al Mayadeen English
The Netherlands has announced a new round of military assistance to Ukraine centered on drone warfare, underscoring The Hague's commitment to sustaining Kiev's battlefield capabilities as the conflict drags on.
Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans announced on Tuesday that €700 million will be allocated to drones, as part of the Netherlands' latest contribution, coordinated through Western military support mechanisms.
"While important diplomatic progress is made, Ukraine needs our military support every day. At the UDCG meeting, I share our latest support: 700 mln euros for drones and 250 mln euros for US weapons (PURL) [Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List initiative]," Brekelmans wrote on X...
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from Venezuela Analysis
Ever since Hugo Chávez came to power in 1998, the United States has attempted to overthrow the Bolivarian Revolution. They have tried everything short of a full-scale military invasion: a military coup, selecting a substitute president, cutting off access to the global financial system, imposing layers of sanctions, sabotaging the electricity grid, sending in mercenaries, and attempting to assassinate its leaders. If you can think of a method to overthrow a government, the United States has likely tried it against Venezuela.
However, in 2025, the escalation became unmistakable. The US sent its warships to patrol Venezuela’s coast, began sinking small boats and killing those on board as they left the South American mainland, and seized an oil tanker bound for Cuba. The quantity of attacks on Venezuela has increased, suggesting the quality of the threats has now reached a different magnitude. It feels as if the United States is preparing for a full-blown invasion of the country.
Donald Trump came to office saying that he was opposed to military interventions that did not further US interests, which is why he called the illegal US war on Iraq a waste of “blood and treasure”. This does not mean Trump is against the use of the US military – he deployed it in Afghanistan (remember the “Mother of all Bombs”) and Yemen, and has fully backed the US/Israeli genocide against the Palestinians. His formula is not for or against war categorically, but about what the US would gain from it. With Iraq, he stated that the problem was not the war itself, but the failure to seize Iraqi oil. Had the US taken Iraq’s oil, Trump would likely have been in Baghdad, ready to build – with Iraqi treasure – a Trump hotel on one of the former presidential properties...
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from PressTV
A pro-Israel donor has publicly urged US President Donald Trump to pursue a third four-year term in office, suggesting that legal avenues might exist despite constitutional limits.
Speaking alongside Trump at a Hanukkah reception at the White House on Tuesday, Miriam Adelson said she had discussed the legality of another Trump presidency with prominent pro-Israel attorney Alan Dershowitz.
During the reception, Adelson, who is 80 years old, said she agreed with Dershowitz and conveyed her support for the possibility of a third term for Trump, leading to chants of “‘Four more years” from the audience.
“I met Alan Dershowitz,” she told attendees after Trump invited her on stage. “I said, Alan, I agree with you. So we can do it. Think about it.”...
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Hi folks. No live stream tonight. Something came up and I have to get ready for tomorrow. Will pick back up next week. I think today's video pretty much said everything I wanted to regarding the Bondi Beach shooting anyway.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Isaac+El+Matari+entrapment
https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/bumbling-wannabe-terrorist-didnt-have-the-slightest-idea/news-story/029729173351df33d468843b115e7552
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-16/video-shows-bondi-beach-shooting-gunman-preaching-islam-to-teens/106145626
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-11/isaac-el-matari-jailed-preparing-terrorist-attack/100530130
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12/15/world/bondi-beach-shooting-gunmen-isis/bondi-beach-shooting-gunmen-isis?smid=url-share
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB00gcc0mXM
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Don't forget, the Ir-gun back in the day would go to other countries and attack local Jewish communities in order to frighten them into moving to Israel. It's not without precident that Mossad or other agencies would target Jews in order to get what they want. Hell, it happened on Oct 7th so why not now?
my article https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2025/12/bondi-beach-shooting-updates.html
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by Scott Creighton
As of 7:30am Monday Dec. 15th, this is what I know thus far:
On Sunday a Hanukkah event was taking place on Bondi Beach, just outside of Sydney, Australia. Sydney was the location of the massive demonstration this past August where 300,000 Australians showed up displaying their solidarity with the Palestinian people and calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.
At sometime a red car pulls up on the street side of a pedestrian bridge which leads over to the beach and two men got out carrying a rifle and a shotgun. There were perhaps more weapons in the car. Police report that somehow the two planted bombs or IEDs in another car, a silver car, parked elsewhere. No explanation as to how that is supposed to have worked has been provided to my knowledge.
The two men were father and son, the son being identified by U.S. intelligence as 24-year-old Naveed Akram from Bonnyrigg. The father, Sajid Akram, who died at the scene, was 50.
Australian authorities have not officially released the names of the victims.
Interestingly, as is usually the case in these matters, the suspects were known to Australian authorities.
' The son is an Australian-born citizen who first came to the attention of the police in 2019 “on the basis of being associated with others,” Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke said on Monday. Neither of them were known to have any history of previous criminal offenses, according to the police.' New York Times
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'In October 2019, Australia’s intelligence agency examined the son for ties to a self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a Monday press conference. Albanese said the agency decided there had been “no indication of any ongoing threat”.
On Sunday evening, two men allegedly left improvised explosive devices in a silver car near Bondi’s beachfront, according to law enforcement, before heading towards the beach.' Reuters
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'Mr. Albanese told ABC that the younger gunman first came to the attention of the police in 2019 because of his connections to two other people, whom he did not identify. Police also interviewed his father, the older gunman, at the time. But Australia’s intelligence service assessed them and determined that there was no evidence that they had been radicalized.' Times
There is always a story of an IED being left behind. I don't know why they do that.
by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: Don't forget... just because someone is Muslim doesn't mean they aren't working for Israel.
Prominent anti-Hamas militia leader Yasser Abu Shabab killed in Gaza
'An earlier statement from Abu Shabab's Bedouin tribe, the Tarabin, said he had been killed "at the hands of the resistance", and accused him of betraying the Palestinian people.'
His own people told the world what he was.
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I will be covering Bondi Beach shooting first thing in the morning. Just wanted to let you know that.
Let's be clear...
Sept 21 2025 Australia officially recognized the state of Palestine. Just before that there was a massive demonstration in Sydney I think in support of the people of Palestine and Gaza which was reported to have been just over 300,000 people. It was this demonstration that motivated the government of Australia to recognize Palestine.
Netanyahu says he sent Albanese a letter telling him he feared there would be violence if they didn't retract that decision and curb Palestinian Solidarity demonstrations because such things 'emboldened the terrorists'
The man who tackled one of the shooters was reported to be Jewish and Netanyahu immediately said it was just another example showing the strength of the Jewish people.
That man turns out to be a Muslim from Syria.
News agencies are no longer reporting he was Jewish... but also not mentioning he is a Muslim.
Tim Pool isn't to be trusted. He was never to be trusted. He earned his way in by gathering intel on the Occupy movement's leadership back in the day. He was a rat and now he is supposedly a trusted influencer on the alt-right MAGA side... or at least he was. MAGA is crashing. Not because of infighting but because TrumpyBear is doing exactly what the alt-left said he was going to do and folks are sick of him... even his base. Pool and others hitched their over-priced wagons to a dying star and now the chicken have all come home to roost. There is a lesson to be learned here folks. But I'm just content laughing at Beanie Boy doing his best Juicy Smollett impersonation. Because lets face it, Tim ain't the sharpest tool in the shed.
Have a great Sunday folks.
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I'm broke and I would pay to see Norman Finkelstein have a sit down and a chat with Nick Fuentes. It would be funny. One of them has been an advocate for Palestinian rights for nearly half a century... and the other guy just pretends to hate Jews for the views. One is a scholar, the other an influencer... whatever the hell that means. But Nick might learn something, he might come away with a better understanding of just how fucked the U.S. is right now. But he won't do it. He lacks the chutzpah.
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Was Israel doomed from the start or did the Jewish supremacists just piss it away?
Norman Finkelstein interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyYl6_N1FZw&t=1315s
CBS News new Epstein photos https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/epstein-files-trove-pictures-house-democrats/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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Carnegie Endowment for Peace 'From Streets to Discord: How Nepal’s Gen Z Toppled a Government' https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/09/nepal-gen-z-topple-government?lang=en
Council on Foreign Relations ' How Global Gen Z Protests Have Shocked and Transformed Governments' https://www.cfr.org/article/how-global-gen-z-protests-have-shocked-and-transformed-governments
How gen Z used Discord to overthrow governments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPzHG1twy4w
'The "Bangladesh Gen Z Revolution" refers to the major youth-led protests in Bangladesh in 2024, which, alongside similar movements in Nepal (2025) and Morocco (2025), showcased how Gen Z uses digital tools like Discord for organizing, coordination, and even pseudo-governance, bypassing traditional structures to demand change, leading to political upheaval, government crackdowns, and new leadership emerging from these online spaces.'
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(In some cases these 764 cretins manipulate young boys and girls into thinking they are their boy friends or girl friends then get them to send nudes of themselves doing embarrassing stuff. Then the mask comes off, a bunch of the other cretins who have been silently watching come out of the woodwork and they blackmail the panicked victim into doing horrific things like harm themselves or kill family pets live on stream to the delight of the freaks who are watching. Several children have committed suicide already as a result of this demented shit while all the others have been scared for life either emotionally, physically or both. Much of this stuff is happening on Discord... just like the grooming for the Gen Z color revolutions. I wonder if the 764 folks aren't actually being run by the Gen Zers they claim run it but rather older folks looking to create just the right 'crisis' to get congress to pass sweeping bullying laws online. ?)
from ABC News
For several years, as U.S. authorities have struggled to stop online extremist networks like "764" from pushing teens to livestream acts of violence or self-harm, including their own suicide, the Justice Department has faced what authorities and victims both say is a vexing challenge: Such coercion is not a federal crime.
That could change if the Republican chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department, have their way.
Ahead of a committee hearing Tuesday on the evolving threat of online predators, Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, introduced a first-of-its-kind piece of legislation that would explicitly criminalize the intentional coercing of minors to physically harm themselves or others, including animals.
Under their proposal, called the Ending Coercion of Children and Harm Online Act, some perpetrators could face life in prison.
"When offenders are eventually caught by law enforcement, prosecutors charge them with the most appropriate charges," Grassley said in the hearing. "However, there are no specific laws to address the terrible and shocking acts conducted by gore groups such as 764 and those engaged in sextortion."
Grassley and Durbin's proposed legislation comes in the wake of several recent reports from ABC News about the growing threat of 764, including an extended interview with the parents of Jay Taylor, a 13-year-old from outside Seattle who in 2022 took his own life -- and aired it live on social media -- after allegedly being manipulated by a member of 764 in Germany.
"It's almost biblical in its definition of evil, what happened," Jay's father, Colby Taylor, said in the ABC News interview. "Ten minutes of murder."...
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(Ever heard of '764' network or the COM network? A bunch of Gen Zers groom at risk children into doing awful shit to themselves after the romance them online and get them to send nudes of themselves. They then use the damning images to blackmail CHILDREN into self-harm like carving a 764 member's name in their skin with sharp objects. These are soulless freaks and it seems our glorious leaders have tapped into that treasure trove of self absorbed brats to run color revolutions across the globe.)
from the Grayzone
The US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars tutoring dozens of Nepalese youth on “strategies and skills in organizing protests and demonstrations” prior to a violent coup which overthrew the government of Nepal in September 2025, leaked documents show.
The documents reveal a clandestine campaign organized by an NED division known as the International Republican Institute (IRI) that sought to cultivate a Nepalese “network” of young political activists explicitly designed to “become an important force to support US interests.” The leaked documents note that the IRI’s program “connects vibrant youth… and political leaders” and “provides comprehensive trainings on how to launch advocacy campaigns and protests.”
The demonstrations organized under the NED’s umbrella would relate to “issues selected” by the Institute and its local collaborators, thereby “ensuring the U.S. concerns with Nepal’s democracy [would] be resolved,” an IRI report stated. As The Grayzone reported, a similar effort by the IRI in Bangladesh helped generate a coup in August 2024.
Nepal was rocked by so-called “Gen Z” protests in September 2025 after authorities blocked access to social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter/X, citing the companies’ failure to abide by local regulations requiring them to register with the government. At least 76 people were killed during the resulting violence, including multiple police officers, leading to the resignation of communist Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli less than a week after the violence began.
Days later, he was replaced by an interim leader chosen in an anonymous poll which registered fewer than 10,000 votes from Discord accounts.
Though the unrest was widely characterized in Western media as a peaceful and democratic uprising against an authoritarian government, video of the mayhem showed protesters armed with semi-automatic rifles rampaging throughout cities. The Jolly Roger flag from the popular anime series One Piece featured prominently – just as it did during recent anti-government “Gen Z” rebellions in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Mexico. Due in part to their proximity to China or the US, each of those countries is also considered a crucial chess piece in the game of international politics. ..
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(All the Gen Z revolutions are color revolutions. The masters of the universe figured out they could use kiddies to run their brutal regime change ops and like drug dealers in the past, they figure the youngsters wont do any time for their crimes. Plus they are gullible and easily manipulated.)
from RT
A US-backed regime-change agency funded and guided the September coup in Nepal, an independent US news outlet reports.
K.P. Sharma Oli resigned as prime minister in September amid violent clashes – known as the Gen Z protests – across the Himalayan nation. The clashes killed 77 and injured more than 2,000.
US-based news outlet The Grayzone cited leaked documents revealing that the US government’s National Endowment for Democracy (NED) spent hundreds of thousands of dollars tutoring Nepalese young people to stage the protests.
The protests caused more than $586 million in losses to Nepal’s $42 billion economy, a statement from the office of interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki, a former chief justice who succeeded Oli, said on Friday, according to Reuters.
The documents cited by The Grayzone reveal a clandestine campaign organized by an NED division, the International Republican Institute (IRI).
The IRI sought to cultivate a Nepalese network of young political activists explicitly designed to “become an important force to support US interests,” it said.
The documents say the IRI’s program “connects vibrant youth… and political leaders” and “provides comprehensive trainings on how to launch advocacy campaigns and protests,” The Grayzone reported.
The IRI has been accused of funding clandestine activities in Bangladesh as well...
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Trump is a Somali pirate, AI data centers, war on Venezuela and much more.
The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/12/ai-regulation-moratorium-threat/685216/
Fed Scoop https://fedscoop.com/pause-ai-data-centers-letter-to-congress/
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from the NYT
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this week, vowed on Thursday to bring democracy to her country and end the government of President Nicolás Maduro as she re-emerged on the global stage after more than a year in hiding.
Ms. Machado held a news conference in Oslo alongside Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store of Norway as the Trump administration dramatically increased its pressure on Mr. Maduro. On Wednesday, the United States seized a Venezuelan oil tanker off the coast of the South American country.
Ms. Machado has been a steadfast supporter of President Trump’s pressure campaign against Mr. Maduro, whom the Trump administration has accused of flooding the United States with drugs and criminals.
On Thursday, Ms. Machado dodged a reporter’s question about her views on the threat of U.S. military action in Venezuela. But she repeated the Trump administration’s talking points on Mr. Maduro’s government, comparing him to a criminal mastermind engaged in a vast array of illegal activities in partnership with America’s adversaries.
“Venezuela has already been invaded,” she said. “We have the Russian agents, we have the Iranian agents, we have terrorist groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, operating freely in accordance with the regime. We have the Colombian guerrilla, the drug cartels.”...
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from Ken Klippenstein
Attorney General Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list of groups or entities engaging in acts that may constitute domestic terrorism,” according to a Justice Department memo published here exclusively.
The target is those expressing “opposition to law and immigration enforcement; extreme views in favor of mass migration and open borders; adherence to radical gender ideology,” as well as “anti-Americanism,” “anti-capitalism,” and “anti-Christianity.”
That language echoes the so-called indicators of terrorism identified by President Trump’s directive National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, or NSPM-7, which the memo says it’s intended to implement. Where NSPM-7 was a declaration of war on just about anyone who isn’t MAGA, this is the war plan for how the government will wage it on a tactical level.
In addition to compiling a list of undesirables, Bondi directs the FBI to enhance the capabilities (and publicity) of its tipline in order to more aggressively solicit tips from the American public on, well, other Americans. To that end, Bondi also directs the FBI to establish “a cash reward system” for information leading to identification and arrest of leadership figures within these purported domestic terrorist organizations. (The memo later instructs the FBI to “establish cooperators to provide information and eventually testify against other members” of the groups.)
The payouts don’t end there. Justice Department grants are now to prioritize funding to programs for state and local law enforcement to go after domestic terrorism.
In a section titled “Defining the domestic terrorism threat,” the memo cites “extreme viewpoints on immigration, radical gender ideology, and anti-American sentiment” — indicators that federal law enforcement are instructed to refer to FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs). Those JTTFs are then instructed to “use all available investigative tools” in order to “map the full network of culpable actors involved” in both “inside and outside the United States.”...
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from AntiWar
Israeli forces in northern Gaza shot and killed a 16-year-old boy on Wednesday before crushing his body with a tank, the Palestinian news agency WAFA has reported, as the IDF continues to violate the US-backed ceasefire deal.
“A WAFA correspondent reported that the army shot 16-year-old Zaher Nasser Shamiya from Jabalia refugee camp and then ran over him with a tank, splitting his body in half,” the news agency said.
The Quds News Network said in a post on X that Shamiya had “returned with his family to live in Block 2 of Jabalia refugee camp, along the so-called ‘yellow line,'” referring to the vague boundary that separates the Israeli-occupied side of Gaza from the rest of the Strip.
Turkey’s Anadolu Agency reported that an “Israeli force made up of several military vehicles and bulldozers, backed by infantry units, advanced several hundred meters beyond the ‘yellow line'” into the al-Ternes area of the Jabalia refugee camp, which has been completely destroyed by the IDF.
The IDF claimed that two “terrorists” crossed the yellow line and said that its forces “eliminated” one of them.
The Anadolu report said that two other Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in Jabalia on Wednesday...
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from AntiWar
The House on Wednesday passed the $901 billion 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the sweeping annual military spending bill that will be combined with a supplemental bill passed earlier in the year to bring the total US military budget to over $1 trillion.
The bill passed in a vote of 312-112 and received significant support from Democrats, with 115 voting in favor. A total of 18 Republicans and 94 Democrats voted against the legislation. The NDAA now heads to the Senate, where it’s expected to pass and then be sent to President Trump’s desk.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the legislation, citing the foreign military aid packed into the bill as the reason for her opposition. The bill includes $1 billion in military aid for Taiwan, $800 million for Ukraine to be disbursed over the next two years, $650 million for Israel, on top of the $3.3 billion it receives through the State Department, and other provisions.
The NDAA includes a new provision to ensure Israel is not impacted by global arms restrictions that have been imposed in response to its genocidal war in Gaza. The amendment requires a review of the arms restrictions and says the US will take steps to “mitigate” and “gaps” it may find...
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from al Mayadeen English
The Government Media Office in Gaza has firmly rejected recent claims by US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz regarding the volume of humanitarian aid entering Gaza. In a statement released Thursday, the office described Waltz’s remarks as "misleading and detached from reality."
"The ambassador’s comments represent a transparent attempt to absolve the Israeli occupation of responsibility for the blockade and the deliberate starvation of civilians," the office said.
According to recent data by Gaza authorities, the daily average of incoming aid trucks since the start of the ceasefire stands at just 234. This is far below the 600 trucks claimed by Waltz and represents only 39% of the pledged daily aid delivery.
Two days ago, the Gaza Media Office reported that over a 60-day period, only 13,511 trucks had entered Gaza out of the 36,000 expected, averaging 226 trucks per day...
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from PressTV
The US has ignited outrage after seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker in what Caracas compared to Israel’s pattern of unlawful military aggression and resource appropriation, denouncing the move as a blatant “act of international piracy.”
President Donald Trump boasted on Wednesday that US forces had taken control of the massive tanker Skipper—carrying roughly 2 million barrels of heavy crude—off Venezuela’s coast, declaring, “I assume we’re going to keep the oil.”
The aggression, executed using helicopters launched from the USS Gerald Ford, marks one of the most dramatic escalations in Washington’s four-month pressure campaign against President Nicolás Maduro.
Caracas blasted the seizure as “a grave international crime” that “constitutes a blatant theft and an act of international piracy.”
“The true motives have always been our oil, our energy, the resources that belong exclusively to the Venezuelan people,” the government said...
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from Daily Sabah
Israeli authorities have signed off on plans for 764 new illegal settlement units across the central West Bank, local media reported Wednesday, expanding construction in multiple settlements, in violation of international law.
According to Channel 7, the government's Higher Planning Council agreed to build 478 settler homes in the settlement of Hashmonaim, west of Ramallah in the central West Bank, 230 homes in Beitar Illit and 56 units in Giv’at Ze’ev.
There was no official Israeli statement on the building.
Israeli settlement construction has surged across the occupied West Bank since Benjamin Netanyahu’s current government took power at the end of 2022.
Local media said that 51,370 settler homes have been approved across the occupied territory since the beginning of the current government’s term...
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from the Guardian
The “yellow line” that divides Gaza under Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan is a “new border” for Israel, the country’s military chief told soldiers deployed in the territory.
The chief of the general staff, Eyal Zamir, said Israel would hold on to its current military positions. These give Israel control of more than half of Gaza, including most agricultural land and the border crossing with Egypt.
“The ‘yellow line’ is a new border line, serving as a forward defensive line for our communities and a line of operational activity,” Zamir said during a visit to meet Israeli reservists in northern Gaza, where he also visited the ruins of the Palestinian towns of Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya...
... The Israeli government declined to comment on whether Zamir’s statement reflected official policy...
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