This Week in the World Affairs Brief
BIDEN AND JUDGES WILL FIGHT TRUMP TO INAUGURATION DAY AND BEYOND
On his way out the door, Joe Biden’s team is busy seeking to hog-tie American’s ability to buy economical appliances, as well as making sure oil and gas prices remain high. Trump will, of course, attempt to reverse a lot of these executive orders, and I think he will succeed except when the courts are able to intervene and stop him. And as a grand slap in the face to the majority of Americans who despise the Leftist, politically correct and woke agenda, Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom Award to both anti-American globalists like George Soros, and conniving arch-Leftists like Liz Cheney and Hillary Clinton. Trump has been able to shake off most the legal challenges brought against him trying to keep him from out of the White House. Only judge Juan Merchan is still hanging on with the delayed sentencing of the president-elect mere days before he is officially sworn in again. The NY Supreme Court had already rejected Trump’s appeal to block sentencing, and Trump lawyers even made an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to halt it as a “grave injustice and harm to the institution of the Presidency.” But yesterday the Supremes rejected the request likely because judge Merchan has hinted he is unlikely to impose jail time. Merchan signaled in his ruling that he was open to a conditional discharge, a move in which he would sentence Trump but dismiss the case should he avoid rearrest. This will not be enough to stop Trump from becoming president, but they will do their best to give him a black eye over it. Unfortunately, Trump is more than capable of giving himself a black mark as I will cover some major mistakes president-elect Donald Trump is talking about making as he takes on his second chance at the presidency. To received a free one-time copy of the brief, along with options on how to subscribe, click on Request a sample on the left.
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- Trump’s Problem Positions
- LA County Burns as Fire Hydrants Run Dry
- More on the Cybertruck Bomber
The Department of Energy (DOE) introduced a final rule in February imposing stricter energy standards for residential clothes washers (RCWs), such as washing machines and clothes dryers.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Meta not only censored our posts – many having to do with topics that the so-called medical “experts” like Dr. Anthony Fauci were dead wrong about – but outright kicked us off the platform without warning. Meta first took action against CHD in May 2019, from takedowns and restrictions to an outright ban in August 2022 that is still in effect. What were our offenses? Simply publishing data on the risks of COVID vaccines, Remdesivir, and ventilation, as well as having the temerity to raise the benefits of natural immunity and alternative treatment with ivermectin and other protocols.
Burned 22,660 acres and numerous homes, businesses and landmarks in Pacific Palisades and westward along Pacific Coast Highway, toward Malibu. As of 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning, the fire was 11% contained. Many parts of Pacific Palisades, Malibu, Santa Monica, Calabasas, Brentwood and Encino are under evacuation orders or warnings. More than 12,000 structures remain threatened. Officials estimate that more than 5,300 structures, including many homes, have been damaged or destroyed.
Various armed allied groups of HTS are rampaging through the central and northern countryside, attacking Christians and Alawites, in a developing ethno-religious genocide. It has only been one month since Assad was overthrown.
oshua Steinman has heard that “a significant number” of Biden NSC staffers will be kept on once President Trump is sworn into office.
This is the same agency that produced Eric Ciaramella, the Obama Deep State asset who manufactured the complaint that led to the first Trump impeachment. Ciaramella lied about Trump’s call to the newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about Hunter Biden’s illicit payments from Ukrainian Burisma Holdings.
Recall that Germany’s green energy masterminds decided that it would be best to decommission the country’s fleet on nuclear power plants, and to produce weather-dependent power with wind farms operating in the north of country, and then supply it to southern Germany via power transmission lines. There’s on problem with the masterplan from the green masterminds: the wind doesn’t blow all the time and so shortages result and rationing becomes necessary!
According to the StromgGedacht from grid operator TransnetBW in Stuttgart, to avoid overloading the grid: “Electric vehicles or batteries (of laptops etc.) should also not be charged from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. if this can be avoided.”
Justin Trudeau announced his resignation on Monday as both prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Trudeau said he will remain as caretaker PM until the Liberal Party selects its new leader.
US intelligence services have identified a complex supply chain set up by the Houthis in China since the beginning of the attacks in the Red Sea – i24NEWS has the scoop
Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will end its third-party “fact-checking” program in order to “restore free expression” across Facebook, Instagram and Meta platforms. But ending its questionable fact-checking program isn’t enough — Zuckerberg needs to reinstate groups like Children’s Health Defense that were banned from Facebook and Instagram for speaking the truth.
Caravan is headed from Tapachula to Juarez on foot, sources say
Mexico recently announced it'll build 25 new shelters for foreign nationals
Rush to border fueled by Donald Trump's return to White House
Judge Merchan gave Trump an unconditional discharge, which means that no penalties were imposed.
Mayor Karen Bass stands in a stunned silence for nearly 2 minutes as a reporter asks her if she regrets cutting Los Angeles' Fire Department budget by nearly $20 million and being absent as her citizens' homes burned down.
Following the August arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov, the popular social network and messaging application known for its stringent privacy policies has sharply increased its cooperation with U.S. authorities. The platform provided data on more than 2,200 users in 2024, a stark increase from previous years
New research has identified 1.5 milligrams of fluoride per liter as a key threshold for child development safety concerns.
The president had been reported to be considering issuing pardons to people who have not been charged with a crime.
That’s a good thing if the motivation for Meta Platforms chairman Mark Zuckerberg’s stunning shift towards liberty is what he says it is—a return to core beliefs—and not merely kowtowing to a new American administration.
The president-elect seeks to delay Friday’s sentencing, citing presidential immunity concerns and potential harm to the institution of the presidency.
In a parting gesture of defiance, the FBI releases a long-awaited document, blotting most of it out. Journalist Aaron Maté explains why the Bureau's FOIA follies matter
What makes my endorsement of Jay all the more peculiar is that he and I still disagree on COVID response. I know because I had the chance to talk with Jay and others in October at a conference that he organized at Stanford, at which I served as a panelist. What’s more, Jay invited me to this conference knowing that his and my opinions on this subject continue to diverge. Here and in other examples, I have seen Jay’s commitment to hearing diverse and disagreeing viewpoints. Jay is not one to try to muzzle a dissenting opinion.
However, it remains anything but clear whether the Islamic Republic has actually decided to build a nuclear weapon, something recently (and surprisingly) acknowledged by the CIA.
Still, the constant daily headlines over Iran's enrichment advances set things up for a collision course with the Trump administration after the Jan.20 inauguration.
Rep Lauren Boebert (R-CO), a staunch firearms advocate, has introduced a bill that would abolish the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
The MoD claimed further that the Ukrainian army had lost more than 12,000 of the 15,000 troops deployed to defend Kurakhove, figures which are not independently verifiable. The military also said Ukraine lost about "3,000 pieces of various weapons and military hardware, including 40 tanks and other armored combat vehicles."
A little more than a month after critical undersea telecommunications cables were severed in the Baltic Sea region, reportedly by a Chinese vessel, a similar incident has unfolded just days into the new year—this time off Taiwan's northern coast.
Taiwan English News reported that four core subsea telecom cables were damaged off the coast in Yehliu, New Taipei City, on Friday.
Four years after what the FBI describes as an act of domestic terror--the protest at the Capitol on January 6, 2021--federal authorities have not yet solved the most consequential crime of that day: the presence of two explosive devices within blocks of the U.S. Capitol.
Joel Salatin, the self-described “Christian Libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic farmer,” enthusiastically engages in a free-flowing conversation as he navigates the bumpy mountain roads that wind through his 700-acre Polyface Farms in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.
He showcases his whimsical sense of humor while driving a faded early-1980s Ford Bronco that has no windows and only gets washed by the rain.
Davis and Schulte devoted six of their 12 drivel-filled paragraphs to the absurd argument that Trump tried to overthrow the federal government during the unarmed Capitol incursion of January 6, 2021, and that this alleged “insurrection” disqualifies him from the presidency under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.
If that argument sounds familiar, it is because Democrats in multiple states tried to remove Trump from their 2024 ballots using the same ridiculous assertions. Of course, they did not succeed.
Will he order another “Operation Warp Speed?”
What if people really do start dying, not just the elderly, but young people. Children. Will he be blamed for how unprepared we are?
Yet is Hurricane Helene really proof that man-made climate change is making life more dangerous in the U.S.?
The Heritage Foundation special report “Keeping an Eye on the Storms: An Analysis of Trends in Hurricanes Over Time” answers definitively in the negative.
In the report, Joe D’Aleo, visiting fellow in Heritage’s Center for Energy, Climate, and Environment, and Kevin Dayaratna, chief statistician in Heritage’s Center for Data Analysis, break down the data.
The president-elect said the law raises questions about legislative encroachment on executive authority.
Tensions over the SMA strained the South Korea-U.S. alliance during Trump's presidency. At the time, Trump accused South Korea of "free-riding" on U.S. military power and demanded a fivefold increase in Seoul's contribution, totaling $5 billion.
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