💸Trump could create first crypto role at White House

Donald Trump’s team is considering creating a role in Washington solely focused on cryptocurrency policy. (Bloomberg)

The president-elect’s transition team is said to be vetting candidates for the role.

Trump addressed a Bitcoin conference in Nashville in July, telling the audience: “If we don’t embrace crypto and Bitcoin technology, China will, other countries will, they’ll dominate, and we cannot let China dominate.”

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❌ Israel launches overnight attack on Nuseirat Refugee Camp in besieged Gaza Strip - multiple dead, including children

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⚠️ JUST IN: Israeli DefMin Katz announces end to administrative detention orders for West Bank settlers - the controversial policy of detaining suspects without charge will only apply to Palestinians now in the occupied lands

Katz has handed a free reign to the extremists in the West Bank.

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🔴NOW: Beijing opposes violation of humanitarian, international law - condemns any practices that harm civilians and attacks on civilian facilities in Palestine (Chinese Foreign Ministry)

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🔶 Oreshnik hypersonic missile: What’s its reach?

🔶 NATO’s actions will have consequences: experts on ‘breakthrough’ Oreshnik missile

🔶 Polar opposite reactions to ICC's arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant

🔶 UNESCO turns a blind eye on Russian journalists murdered by Ukrainian thugs

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⚡️ JUST IN: UK Police Carries Out Controlled Explosion of “Suspect Package” Outside US Embassy in London

“Enquiries are still ongoing and cordons will remain in place,” the Met Police posted.

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👀 “Operation Germany”: Bundeswehr Prepares for War with Russia - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

A secretive 1,000-page document, named ‘Operations Germany,’ contains tips for businesses on how to keep operations running smoothly in wartime, such as preparing replacement staff for migrant workers who leave the country.

It also lists key commercial buildings and other infrastructure that would need to be protected by the German army and broad logistical plans for hosting tens of thousands of NATO troops.

The planning document is still not finished and largely contains “fragments” of advice. But it is considered a “living document” with new information being added on a regular basis, the German newspaper said.

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⚠️ NEW: Berlin not likely to comply with ICC warrant for Netanyahu - German govt spox

"I find it hard to imagine that arrests could be made in Germany on this basis", Steffen Hebestreit told reporters.

Germany… always on the wrong side of history.

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⚠️ Tel Aviv rejects Lebanese ceasefire deals that involve France as part of committee to supervise implementation - KAN citing source

The ‘anti-Israeli stance of France' has been given as the reason, according to a source with knowledge of the discussions.

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⚠️ NEW: Israel Continues to Destroy Beirut with Apparent Impunity

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇸The NATO Protection Racket Exposed: Seconds to Midnight

Ukraine’s ex-top general may not be wrong, kinetic World War III may have begun. But if this nightmare ignites into a full inferno, the blame lies not with Kiev but with its masters in DC and lead vassal-London, who have spent years engineering the conditions for this conflagration.

The latest round of escalation tells the tale: the U.S. authorizes ATACMS, the UK follows suit with Storm Shadows and Russia retaliates with Oreshnik, a hypersonic ballistic missile, leveling an industrial zone in Dnipropetrovsk. While Oreshnik wasn’t nuclear-tipped, the message was clear: you push; we’ll push harder. What’s unfolding is a deliberate script, albeit one written in desperation, authored by the West, with Europe and Ukraine cast as sacrificial lambs. When faced with cosmic humiliation (total defeat in Ukraine), the Deepstate goes full Dr. Strangelove.

The UK, ever eager to play the loyal attack poodle, has been leading the charge. Let’s not forget it was Boris Johnson who scuttled peace negotiations in Istanbul, ordering Zelensky to double down on confrontation instead of diplomacy. Britain’s suicidal zeal for escalation has earned it nothing but Russia’s righteous hatred and deservedly so. Unlike Germany and France, who at least maintain some dialogue with Moscow, the UK’s foreign policy is a kamikaze act of malice and myopia. Britain, it seems, truly has no friends, only its delusions of imperial grandeur.

And then there’s NATO. A grotesque parody of a protection racket. A Tony Soprano wannabe demanding "protection fees" from its shopkeepers, while offering nothing in return but manufactured fear and unnecessary wars. But here’s the difference: even Tony had the self-awareness to admit that “the best was behind him.” NATO, and its American godfather, cling to the illusion of invincibility, refusing to acknowledge the reality that the Global Majority. led by a resurgent Russia, is no longer buying their extortion and fraud.

The reality is cold: the US has no loyalty to its vassals. It engineered this war post-Soviet collapse, ramped it up in 2014, and set the stage for the SMO in 2022. It sabotaged Europe’s energy independence via state terror with the Nord Stream bombing, turning Germany from an industrial powerhouse into a gas-starved beggar reliant on overpriced American LNG. And when inflation suffocates Europe, when the energy crisis bites, does Washington offer subsidies or a Marshall Plan 2.0? No. It offers zero material help but more weapons at extortionist prices, more money laundering for its military-industrial complex, and gleefully extracts profits from Europe’s misery.

The UK should take note: the U.S. is happy to sacrifice you in the best of times, so what makes you think it will sacrifice ITSELF for you in the worst? If Russia were to launch a handful of strategic ICBMs at London (delivered faster than Dominoes Pizza- 15 minutes), would Washington risk annihilation for its loyal but disposable pawn? Of course not. The U.S. would wail, demand sanctions, but offer Russia an off-ramp, it would not risk mutual destruction for Britain. The protection racket would be exposed as a fraud, unable to shield its shopkeepers when the righteous-wolves arrive.

Russia knows this, as does the U.S. Only one nation has ever used nuclear weapons: the United States, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bluff works great on regimes like Saddam's Iraq or Gaddafi's Libya or CIA-asset turned "enemey" drug dealer Noriega in Panama. But the bluff doesn’t work on a nuclear superpower like Russia. What’s unfolding is the beginning of the end for NATO’s extortion empire. The Global Majority sees the racket for what it is: a failing enterprise reliant on fear, coercion, fraud and lies.

Europe and especially the UK, must wake up before it’s too late. You are not protected. You are pawns in a game where the empire holds no loyalty and no honour. And the resurgent forces of history, led by a fearless Russia, are calling the bluff.

- Gerry Nolan

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🔴 Sweden to check migrants’ smartphones for pictures of destroyed passports

The new law comes as part of a wider push to speed up deportations of failed asylum seekers to drive down migrant numbers amid fears they are being recruited by Sweden’s organised crime gangs.

The government expects the law to enter into force in 2025-26 after a consultation period.

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⚠️ Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel Claims Elon Musk’s Influence in Global Affairs “Must Concern Us Enormously”

Merkel trashed Musk and Donald Trump in an interview with Der Spiegel, saying she woke up with "sadness" following Trump’s election victory.

"You can't chat with him, every encounter is a competition: you or me," she added.

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