🤔 Alternative Headline: Senior US Diplomats Engage with Terrorists with Guidance from CIA

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🚫 Trump Tells EU to Commit to “Large Scale” US Oil & Gas Purchases or Face Tariffs (Reuters)

“I told the EU that they must make up their tremendous deficit with the US by the large scale purchase of our oil and gas," Trump posted on Truth Social Friday.

"Otherwise, it is TARIFFS all the way!!!," he added.

The EU is already buying the lion's share of US oil and gas exports, according to US govt data, and no additional volumes are available at its current output.

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📣 Kremlin Warns G7 Sanctions Will Backfire

G7 countries are reportedly exploring options to toughen the price cap on Russian oil - from implementing a full ban on handling Russian crude to lowering the price threshold from the current $60 to about $40. (Bloomberg)

When asked about Russia’s concerns if these scenarios materialis, Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov warned there would “certainly” be risks to the stability of international energy markets.

“This will inevitably happen and will hit simultaneously those countries that make such decisions,” Peskov noted.

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⚠️ Oliver Stone: ‘Iran is the F*cking Next Target for “Madman” Netanyahu’

‘Iran has blown up the Middle East, it’s just like they’re remaking the Middle East,’ the filmmaker said.

Adding that the ‘US is in Netanyahu’s pocket.’

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😳 Peter Mandelson Set to Be New UK Ambassador to US

You can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep…

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⚠️ Car Plows into Crowd at Christmas Market in Germany - Multiple Killed

WARNING: Graphic Footage

At least 11 people are reported to be dead, with dozens injured after a car crashed into people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.

The driver has been arrested, as per local authorities.

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❗️🇨🇳 China protests Pentagon report on it's military development

Beijing's Defense Ministry has accused Washington of using military superiority to maintain unipolar hegemony and provoke "color revolutions", adding that US military strategy is becoming increasingly confrontational and that it has become the biggest threat to global security.

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🇸🇦🇩🇪Saudi Arabia warned German security services three times about a possible threat posed by a man who drove into a crowd in Magdeburg, writes Der Spiegel.

The prime minister of Saxony-Anhalt had previously confirmed that the driver was from Saudi Arabia. According to Bild, he wrote on social media about hatred of Islam and repeatedly threatened violence.

The number of victims in the attack has risen to five, local media report. Security is being urgently stepped up at Christmas markets in Germany.

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🇺🇸❌🇺🇸NATO Shake Down: Trump’s 5% Demand 💵

According to the Financial Times, President-elect Donald Trump plans to demand that NATO members raise their defense spending to 5% of GDP—more than double the current 2% target. Additionally, Trump reportedly aims to maintain military aid to Ukraine, ensuring the continuation of support in the region.

❗️This is the Art of the Shake Down on full display. Trump, as always, says the quiet part loudly: NATO is a protection racket. Over $300 billion and the collective might of its members couldn’t save the engineered war in Ukraine, yet somehow it’s supposed to shield its shopkeeper members from real threats? The alliance is less about defense and more about draining European coffers to sustain Washington’s endless wars and MIC money laundering op.

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🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🌍 Before ‘Democracy,’ After ‘Democracy’

Here’s the legacy of the West’s “humanitarian” crusade for democracy, cities turned into graveyards of sovereignty and hope. Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yugoslavia, Yemen - nations with rich histories and thriving cultures, now shadows of their former selves, reduced to rubble and chaos.

This isn’t liberation. This is the business model of endless wars: destabilization, regime change, and a blueprint of destruction disguised as freedom. Beneath every crumbled building lies a pipeline plan, a looted treasury, and an empire’s economic hitmen smiling in their boardrooms.

The irony? These very nations were thriving before their “democratization.” Iraq with its grand mosques, Libya with its unparalleled social welfare, Syria, a cradle of civilization; Yugoslavia with its cosmopolitan harmony, and Yemen, the ancestral homeland of resilience. Each one offered their people stability, infrastructure, and a future before they became targets of the Hegemon's appetite for control.

But let’s be clear: this isn’t just about bombs and sanctions. It’s about a moral facade-farce “Rules-Based Order” - where sovereign nations must bow to the financial and military supremacy of Western oligarchs. And when they resist? They’re erased, one missile at a time, under a media blackout designed to gaslight the world into complicity.

The corporate Mockingbird media? Silent accomplices, laundering public opinion with talk of “nation-building” while showing none of the before-and-after devastation you see here. The only democracy on display was the one where missiles cast the votes, and Big Oil, Big Tech, and Big War counted the profits.

Let’s not kid ourselves. The true democracy these nations experienced was the “democracy” of resource pillaging: oil for Iraq and Libya, pipelines for Syria, and control of critical trade routes in Yemen. What better way to secure “freedom” than by erasing entire cities off the map and leaving smoldering ruins for puppet regimes to reign over?

But the West can’t win this game forever. A new order is emerging from the ashes they’ve sown. The Global Majority remembers, and it refuses to forget.

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci

- Gerry Nolan

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