This Week in the World Affairs Brief
TRUMP’S NOMINATIONS—SOME GOOD, SOME BAD
Trump is coming into office from a much different position than 8 years ago. He has learned that he can’t trust recommendations from the Republican establishment after his prior disastrous choices for AG and FBI Director and the Deep State appointees he made thereafter that betrayed him. This time he’s going all-out for people who he feels will be loyal to him and his agenda. The upside to four years of persecutions by the press and political prosecutions against him is that many who feigned loyalty to him have revealed their true natures—but not all. During that time Trump remained the favorite of republican voters, so conservatives and RINOs alike still professed loyalty—whether feigned or real. And Trump is still Trump and continues to be deceived through flattery and servile yesmanship. Consequently all of his picks are from those who appear conservative on the surface and been openly supportive of Trump. But the label of “conservative” can range from a strict constitutional and family values conservative to a neocon, and, unfortunately, Trump has chosen from both camps—including several with suspicious backgrounds filled with contradictions and some with moral corruption—and virtually none experienced in tackling a huge bureaucracy.. But, his biggest failure is finding and selecting a single person who knows the history of conspiracies and illegal acts of government. Trump’s vow to dismantle the Deep State will fail without such knowledge and guidance on how to ferret out the darkest secrets of government and those behind them. To receive a free one-time sample of the brief, along with options on how to subscribe, click on Request a Sample on the left.
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- Trump’s First Day in Office
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The Chinese vessel Yi Peng 3 has been chased, intercepted, and boarded by Danish Navy vessel Y311 Søløven after the Chinese vessel destroyed 2 undersea telecom cables linking Finland-Germany and Sweden-Lithuania.
The vessel sailed from Russia & the captain is Russian
Huge Israeli airstrikes rocked the outskirts of the central Syrian city of Palmyra on Wednesday, with regional reports saying the attacks were launched by Israeli jets utilizing US-controlled airspace over Al-Tanf military base in eastern Syria.
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price conceded her recall election on Monday, nearly a week after Bay Area voters expressed their frustration with crime and homelessness by voting out multiple progressive leaders.
According to unofficial results as of Nov. 20, 63.1 percent of voters in the general election favored replacing Price, who had served in the position for less than two years.
Alongside Price, Oakland voters also ousted progressive Mayor Sheng Thao.
Jews and homosexuals face rising threats in Arab-majority areas amid anti-Semitic crimes, protests, and budget shortfalls
The drop in support for a handgun ban is notable in that only 33 percent of Democrats support such a ban.
The rise in gun ownership and the drop in polling raise another issue where Democratic candidates seem to be speaking to an increasingly empty room.
About a day after President Biden authorized Ukraine to use the long-range US-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System to strike deeper into Russian territory, a new report suggests that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have hit a military installation in the western Bryansk region. This comes after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia's nuclear weapons doctrine was changed and signed by President Vladimir Putin, indicating "the use of Western non-nuclear rockets by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia can prompt a nuclear response."
A paper shredding truck was spotted on Tuesday outside the Justice Department, according to a photo from the Oversight Project.
The truck’s appearance suggests the agency is destroying sensitive paperwork before the Trump administration takes power.
The Pentagon is in “absolute disarray” with “generals scrambling” due to the incoming Trump administration’s plans to fire woke senior military leaders who prioritized diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) over combat readiness, according to sources.
President Zelensky in a message claimed Ukraine anti-air forces were able to shoot down over 140 of the inbound Russian projectiles. But building fires and damage across the country point to many dozens of drone and missiles having got through to hit targets.
"The enemy’s target was our energy infrastructure throughout Ukraine. Unfortunately, there is damage to objects from hits and falling debris.
Anonymous U.S. officials have said Biden has authorized Ukraine to use long-range missiles provided by the United States to strike targets in Russia.
The Stanford professor of health policy was a leading critic of government-imposed lockdowns and restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
‘We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright,’ he says.
Johnson vowed to hold the IRS accountable for any abuse of power, ensuring that taxpayers are treated fairly.
Massive police repression in Germany as war against free speech and basic human rights ratchets up under left-liberal government
Just when you thought the least funny website on the planet, The Onion, had prevailed in the Infowars auction, the judge in the case put the brakes on the sale after it was revealed that the (anti-Jones) bankruptcy trustee did not accept the highest bid, and instead allowed the Sandy Hook families to 'assist' by pledging their massive judgement towards the auction - which Jones says is illegal.
armed Venezuela prison gang Tren de Aragua members storming communities nationwide.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Director David Rausch is the latest official to warn about TdA members taking over his cities. He said these illegal alien criminals have been spotted in all major cities in Tennessee.
...it was reported last week that Russia is temporarily restricting enriched uranium exports to the U.S., raising supply concerns for reactors that produce nearly 20% of the nation's electricity.
Kennedy would have, if confirmed, sway over a wide swathe of healthcare regulatory bodies, which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
The sale price was not disclosed when the families confirmed the deal on Thursday. In a video posted to his X/Twitter account, Jones claimed The Onion’s bid was actually not the highest price offered for the company and said the sale to the left-wing satire site was an “injustice.”
Dr. Julia Nesheiwat is a distinguished fellow with the Atlantic Council's Global Energy Center and a recognized expert for energy, environment, climate change, and national security issues as a public servant, academic, former military officer, and US diplomat. Since December 2020, she has served as commissioner on the US Arctic Research Commission reporting to the White House and Congress on domestic and international Arctic issues.
Nesheiwat brings unique experiences has served over twenty years in international energy diplomacy critical infrastructure protection climate environmental science and national security serving in the Bush Obama Trump and Biden-Harris administrations.
In a video posted to X on Thursday afternoon, Jones said, “This morning, the Connecticut Democrats with The Onion newspaper bought us.”
Jones said his allies who attempted to buy the brand asked if they were outbid.
“They said, ‘Well, it was competitive,'” Jones said. “So, they changed all the bidding rules and made it secret two days ago. I had a bad feeling, I told you that.”
Those Nevada voter integrity types use 1980s technology so they cannot see this in close to real time - so they claim it is not a thing.
Well, ask Sam Brown - because he isn’t being beaten by dead voters, he is being beaten by voters who moved but their ballot did not move with them.
Kari Lake in Arizona - same story, different way to steal it.
Trump won both states handily - and we are to believe voters waited in line for hours, worked a multi-page Arizona ballot, and voted for Trump then cross voted for the guy who dumped a 9 month pregnant wife for a hotter deal?
Doubt it.
Ratcliffe served as director of national intelligence during the first Trump term.
"That caught us by surprise a little bit. But I asked him what the reasoning was, and he said, well, you can't have too many absences. So under Florida State law, there's about an eight week period to, select and fill in a vacancy. And so by doing so today, that allows me I've already placed a call to Governor DeSantis in Florida and said, let's start the clock. He's in Italy at the moment. And so we're going to talk first thing in the morning about this. And if we start the clock now, if you do the math, we may be able to fill that seat as early as January 3rd when we take the new oath of office for the new Congress."
They put Tulsi Gabbard on a terror watchlist.
Now she’s Director of National Intelligence.
Musk previously predicted he could cut at least $2 trillion from the US federal budget, while Ramaswamy suggested firing federal workers based on their social security numbers.
"Here’s how: if your [Social Security number] ends in an odd number, you’re fired," he wrote on X.
A defeated special counsel Jack Smith and his team are planning to resign before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, the NY Times reports, citing a source familiar with the matter.
Even with all that, worse was planned. On July 26, 2020, with the George Floyd riots having finally settled down, the CDC issued a plan for establishing nationwide quarantine camps. People were to be isolated, given only food and some cleaning supplies. They would be banned from participating in any religious services. The plan included contingencies for preventing suicide. There were no provisions made for any legal appeals or even the right to legal counsel.
The plan’s authors were unnamed but included 26 footnotes. It was completely official. The document was only removed on about March 26, 2023. During the entire intervening time, the plan survived on the CDC’s public site with little to no public notice or controversy.
It was called “Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings.”
"We conducted for the first time, an air attack with a squadron of qualitative suicide drones, on the Kirya base (the headquarters of the Israeli Ministry of War and General Staff, the War Management Room, and the Air Force’s Military Control and Oversight Authority) in the city of Tel Aviv, and hit its targets accurately."
If true this would mark a significant escalation. Not only would it mean that Israel's most sensitive command infrastructure is exposed, but it would mark a significant failure of Israel's advanced anti-air defense systems.
Thune, the Senate GOP whip and the #2 ranking member since 2019, largely managed operation of the Senate floor since McConnell suffered a concussion in 2023.
As Axios notes, Thune's win "is a victory for the post-Trump establishment," as he's "not a natural, true-believer Trump guy like Rick Scott and his supporters are."
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