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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Musk-MAGA Saga: Migration & 'Making America Great Again'


Sott.net
Mon, 30 Dec 2024 14:44 UTC
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Musk was only trying to point out that the world's 'top geniuses' should come and work in the USA, wasn't he?

In an unexpected turn of events, a raging debate has flared on social media platform X over the hot topic of inward, LEGAL migration, resulting in the champion of free speech himself cussing and fuming at MAGA supporters over their discovery that the very same legal migration routes Musk advocates greatly expanding... are being heavily abused by corporate America - including Musk's conglomerate.

This week on NewsReal, Joe, Niall and guest Adam tackle the thorny issues of migration, racism, and what it would take to truly 'make America great again'.


Running Time: 01:57:16

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Big Bomb

German government review: 'We have no defense against Russian ballistic missiles'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Sun, 29 Dec 2024 22:05 UTC
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© Associated PressRussian nuclear submarine Yuri Dolgoruky test-fires Bulava missiles from the White Sea in May, 2018
Russian media has picked up on a report in Germany's Bild newspaper which highlights a German government assessment saying the country is defenseless against the Russian Oreshnik missile system.

"The Patriot is not right to combat longer-range ballistic missiles, such as the Oreshnik," Bild quoted a government document as saying, in reference to the US-supplied air defense missile system. "Any interception would be more like sheer luck."

The report further underscored that currently Germany has no effective method of intercepting an inbound ballistic missile, following decades of a 'neutral' and degraded post-WWII military.

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In America it's another week to be proud of!

Philip Giraldi
The Unz Review
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
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Something good happened in Washington last week, suggesting that the year might actually end on a high note without Joe Biden starting World War 3 and opening up all the country's prisons for the on-the-street rehabilitation of the inmates where they will undoubtedly learn new skills. The good thing was the signing by Biden of a bill, perhaps with a little bit of help from his friends to make sure he spelled his name correctly, to make the Bald Eagle the official bird of the United States of America. The Eagle has been around the American Republic virtually since its foundation, appearing on the Great Seal and on various documents and even on currency, but it has never been officially dubbed the national bird.

All honor of place is due to the great bald eagle, but one might recall that Benjamin Franklin once suggested that the best choice for the national bird would be the wild turkey. And Biden still has time for mischief, including possibly ennobling turkeys or even the issuance of a pardon to himself for ignoring the United States Constitution for four years. And Joe might well choose to go preemptive by pardoning Hillary Clinton for all those classified emails and other documents that somehow disappeared from her home and office ten years ago. But apart from that, it is somehow reassuring to be able to keep repeating "only three more weeks of Biden and Harris" even though the potential for more damage to the Bill of Rights remains enormous.

Comment: Offered is a fair assessment given the obvious means, motives and obstacles. Trump has his work cut out should he stay the course via brute determination and/or divine providence. His blind spot is Israel. Should he deny fealty and service to this 'cause', better marksmen [Mossad] have their target.

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The king is dead: Trump's talk on 'taking Canada' highlights the demise of this critical political concept

Timofey Bordachev
RT
Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:47 UTC
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© David Becker/Getty ImagesPresident-elect Donald Trump
The US president-elect's bold talk on Canada, Panama, and Greenland is more than a joke - it's a warning.

Donald Trump's most notable contribution to world politics since his re-election as US president has been stirring the pot with audacious comments: annexing Canada, buying Greenland, and reclaiming the Panama Canal. These remarks have sparked retaliatory statements from governments, a flurry of internet humor, and even some thoughtful analysis.

While most observers dismiss these musings as an attempt to emotionally destabilize negotiating partners — a hypothesis supported by Trump's grumblings over Western Europe's energy purchases from the US — there's a deeper layer worth exploring. Beyond the entertainment value (and let's admit, we all need some lighthearted headlines amidst global tensions), Trump's provocations might just be making a larger point: state sovereignty is no longer the unshakable concept we once believed it to be.

In a world where power increasingly relies on military might, sovereignty has shifted from being a formal status to a practical question of control. Today, imagining Canada, Greenland, or Mexico as part of the United States seems absurd. But in the near future, we might find ourselves seriously questioning why states unable to secure their own sovereignty should retain it at all.

Comment: Simply stated: Trump wants to revise and replace a problematic system of 'Round holes/Square pegs' with 'Square holes/Round pegs'...a form that actually works.

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Best of the Web: China sanctions US defense firms


RT
Fri, 27 Dec 2024 14:23 UTC
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© YinYang/Getty ImagesUS military cargo transport plane C-17
Beijing has placed restrictions on Washington's military assistance to Taiwan, the foreign ministry has said.

Beijing has imposed sanctions on seven US defense companies and their executives in response to Washington's sale of arms to Taiwan in violation of the One-China principle, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday.

The move comes after outgoing US President Joe Biden last week authorized a $571.3 million military aid package to Taiwan.

Washington's actions "interfere in China's internal affairs, and undermine China's sovereignty and territorial integrity," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said as it announced the restrictions.

The companies targeted by the sanctions include Insitu Inc., Hudson Technologies Co., Saronic Technologies, Inc., Raytheon Canada, Raytheon Australia, Aerkomm Inc., and Oceaneering International Inc.

The ministry said "relevant senior executives" of the companies had also been blacklisted, without providing any names.
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German president dissolves parliament


RT
Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:23 UTC
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© Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu/Getty ImagesGerman President Frank-Walter Steinmeier announces his decision to dissolve the Bundestag • December 27, 2024
A rare snap election will be held in February, as critics of Western funding for the Ukraine conflict gain public support.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier ordered the dissolution of the federal parliament on Friday, following the collapse of the country's ruling coalition. Mainstream parties in Germany are facing pressure at the ballot box from critics of Berlin's support for Ukraine.

A snap election has been scheduled for February 23, when German voters will choose their new representatives. The date was agreed in advance by the main political parties, according to media reports.

A three-way coalition led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz collapsed in early November amid internal disputes over spending priorities. On December 16, the German leader lost a confidence vote in the Bundestag, heralding the end of his tenure at the helm of a minority government.
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DIA spy bosses 'silenced' Defense Department, FBI scientists from briefing Biden on COVID lab leak evidence

Josh Christenson and Ryan King
New York Post
Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:57 UTC
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© Associated PressNew evidence has emerged of top spy brass allegedly stifling evidence to back up the lab leak theory during the early pandemic days.
Spy chiefs "silenced" researchers in the Defense Department and FBI who discovered strong evidence that COVID-19 most likely leaked from a Chinese lab, The Post has learned.

As a result, their findings were kept out of an August 2021 report to President Biden on the origins of the global pandemic.

That report concluded that the virus behind COVID "was probably not genetically engineered."

After the pandemic erupted in Wuhan, China, three scientists from the Defense Intelligence Agency began trying to figure out exactly where it came from — whether SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats into humans, or whether the virus was man-made and came from a lab accident.

Comment: While Wuhan is definitely part of the program to develop viral bioweapons, the real origins are likely to be found "upstream".

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New NATO member Sweden embarks on a sober search for more cemetery space in case of war

Mimi Montgomery
AP
Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:05 UTC
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Cemetery in Gothenburg, Sweden
Burial associations in Sweden are looking to acquire enough land for something they hope they'll never have to do: bury thousands of people in the event of war.

The search follows recommendations from the Church of Sweden's national secretariat, which reflect crisis preparedness guidelines from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) and the Swedish Armed Forces.

The preparedness guidelines have been put in a new light by Sweden's decision to join NATO and tensions with Russia in the Baltic Sea region.

According to the Church of Sweden provisions, supported by legal paragraphs in Sweden's Burial Act, burial associations are responsible for ensuring the availability of enough land to bury roughly 5 percent of the population within a parish, if needed.

The Goteborg Burial Association, which operates in Sweden's second-largest city, is currently trying to navigate the challenge of acquiring at least 10 acres (40,470 square meters) of land to ensure it can handle urgent casket burials for some 30,000 dead in case of war. That is in addition to another 15 acres (60,700 square meters) of land needed for building graveyards for regular use in Goteborg.


Comment: Before joining NATO, Sweden had normal relations with Russia and lived in peace. Now as a member of NATO, that safety which it enjoyed before appears gone and the war rhetoric has increased.


Comment: The rulers are geared up for war and instead of working towards a peace settlement, they escalate the conflict using the tired old Russia scare as a means to get the population behind this war drive. Sweden has been at war with Russia before such as in 1788 when the Swedish king Gustav III for domestic political reasons started a war with Russia. Things back then didn't go to plan and Sweden settled for peace in 1790. History has a tendency of repeating certain themes.

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Trump vs. BRICS will accelerate de-dollarization

Salman Rafi Sheikh
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
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© UnknownUS president-elect Donald Trump • India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi
With the US president-elect Donald Trump threatening to impose 100 per cent tariffs on BRICS countries willing to create and join the BRICS currency framework, he is quite likely to end up accelerating the process of de-dollarization, putting an end to American financial hegemony. Only de-weaponizing the USD can halt this process.

The BRICS Currency vs. Trump

The US is very well known for weaponizing its currency to meet foreign policy goals. Now that this 'weapon' is threatened by alternative financial systems being led by US rivals, Uncle Sam is threatening retaliation. As American as one can be, Trump is toeing the same line of global US hegemony. On his social media platform Truth Social, Trump wrote:
"We require a commitment from these countries that they will neither create a new BRICS currency nor back any other currency to replace the mighty US dollar, or they will face 100% tariffs and should expect to say goodbye to selling into the wonderful US economy."
Trump's statement relies on a belief system according to which the threat of tariffs will hurt the countries sending their exports to the US. But, as a recent report in Bloomberg said, it is not BRICS threatening the US dollar; it is the US itself.

Comment: Every day there is choice - be it continuation or the option for change. Clarity of purpose and an understanding of potential outcomes must guide and support decisions, even for presidents.

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Geopolitical auto-asphyxiation: Here's why Germany is heading for irreversible decline

Tarik Cyril Amar
RT
Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:10 UTC
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© Geert Vanden Wijngaert/APGermany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz
Oops, he's done it again: Tech mogul, richest man in the world, and also now new bestie of American President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk has used his massive social media clout - as owner of X and a personal account with more than 200 million followers - to post about politics. And here we don't mean his unhelpful recent intervention in how Americans - barely - keep their rickety government contraption from stuttering to a halt for lack of cash.

Nope, this is about Germany: With regard to Europe's Sick Man on the Spree (there is another one on the Seine, of course), in his first post Musk waltzed in, guns blazing to support the right-wing AfD (Alternative for Germany) party in the run-up to the snap elections on February 23.

Only the AfD, he pronounced with typical modesty, can "save Germany." In a second post, a few days later, Musk reacted to a murderous attack on a German Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg. This time, he called Germany's lame-duck Chancellor Olaf Scholz "an incompetent fool" who should resign forthwith.

Comment: Common sense has become uncommon...lost actually.

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