Weekly News-Nov-29-2024
Here are our top 5 stories of the week.
#1 – Gleeful Graham: Ukraine War All ‘About Money’
No, you heard it right. Last week in a Fox News appearance, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said outright that the war in Ukraine is “about money.”
Namely, Graham told Fox News host Sean Hannity that the U.S. stands to financially gain from Ukraine’s vast agricultural sector and “two to seven trillion dollars’ worth” of rare earth minerals alike in a prospective wartime deal with the war-torn, albeit resource-wealthy, nation. Read full article >
#2 – Russia Hits Ukraine Power Grid in Response to Ukraine’s Long-range American Missile Attack
By R. Cort Kirkwood | The New American
Russia has again hit electrical plants in Ukraine, and this time the facilities are connected to nuclear power plants.
And following the cluster-munitions attack that hit multiple targets, Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to hit Ukraine with another ballistic missile. Russia hit Dnipro and other targets with an intermediate-range ballistic missile last week… Read full article >
#3 – Zelensky Says He’ll Give up Ukrainian Territory to Russia to Achieve Peace
By Will Jones | The Daily Skeptic
Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday night that he was willing to cede territory to Russia to end the war for the first time on condition that Ukraine is admitted to NATO “fast”. The Mail has more.
In an interview with Sky News, the Ukrainian President suggested he was prepared to end the “hot phase” of the war in exchange for membership of the bloc…
#4 – JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Is Secretly Advising Trump on Policy Agenda Before and After His Massive Win: Report
by Jim Hoft | Gateway Pundit
Jamie Dimon, the CEO of America’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, has been revealed as a secret adviser to President-elect Donald Trump, shaping a bold policy agenda both before and after his decisive election victory, four sources told The New York Post.
Dimon, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co., a banking firm with assets of $3.2 trillion and operations worldwide, has emerged as an influential sounding board for Trump. Read full article >
#5 – Contentious and ‘Bitter’ COP29 Summit Ends With Nearly 200 Countries Agreeing to Climate Finance Deal
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Striking a ‘climate finance’ deal at this year’s COP29 summit wasn’t easy, capping off a summit in Azerbaijan that was fraught with unenthusiastic participants and reports of counterintuitive dealmaking.
When all was said and done nearly 200 countries agreed to triple funding to help developing nations address climate change, with wealthy nations pledging at least $300 billion annually by 2035 through various sources, according to Bloomberg. Read full article >
Here are our top 5 most underreported or most bizarre stories of the week.
#1 – UK Parliament Votes in Favor of Bill Allowing Doctors to Kill Their Patients
By Andreas Wailzer | LifeSite News
The British Parliament has voted in favor of a bill permitting doctors to help patients kill themselves.
In a 330-275 vote, the UK Parliament advanced proposed highly controversial assisted dying legislation, the ‘Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill’ that allows doctors to euthanize their patients under certain conditions. There will now be a third reading. Read full article >
#2 – Plunder Capitalism: Is the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Trial Balloon the Next Step in the Great American Land Grab?
By Catherine Austin Fitts | Solari Report
We are researching what looks to be the next phase in the financial coup d’état.
We are watching what appears to be a significant “astroturf” campaign to persuade the federal and state governments to begin significant Bitcoin (BTC) buying programs using taxpayers’ money and funds borrowed with ever-expanding debt to fund BTC to be held on government balance sheets. This will solve a major problem faced by the Bitcoin billionaires—how to liquify their holdings in a market that is not sufficiently broad and deep to allow them an exit during a major pump. Read full article >
#3 – U.
By Brian Shilhavy | Vaccine Impact
The U.S. Government just won’t let the Big Tech bubble burst, as it bailed out the EV Truck company Rivian today for $6.6 billion, and it bailed out computer chip manufacturer Intel for $7.9 billion also today.
Rivian Stock Slips. How $6.6 Billion From Biden Can Reignite the EV Maker.
Rivian Automotive stock was giving up some of its recent gains on Tuesday after the electric-vehicle maker said it had received a multi-billion-dollar loan from the U.S. government to help it make more cars.
Shares were down 1.2% to $11.46.
#4 – Tesla Factories Caught Spewing Toxins Into Air, River, Sewer
By Victor Tangermann | Futurism
Tesla’s plant in Austin, Texas has been leaking huge amounts of hazardous wastewater into the city’s sewer, violating local environmental guidelines.
As detailed in public records obtained by the Wall Street Journal, the Elon Musk-led company also allowed a massive casting furnace to spew toxins into the air after its door refused to shut. Read full article >
#5 – Mark Zuckerberg Visits Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Reportedly ‘Wants to Support the National Renewal’
By | FOX Business
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited Mar-a-Lago on Wednesday, just months after the tech entrepreneur publicly praised President-elect Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt.
#5 (tie) – Warning: Meta Pushes for a Digital ID Revolution
By | Reclaim The Net
Meta is coming out as a supporter of age verification, and the proposal the giant is putting forward exposes and sums up many of the points critics have been consistently making.
A blog post by Meta VP and Global Head of Safety Antigone Davis proposes to implement age verification at the operating system/app stores level.
Although the narrative around child safety and difficulties of parenting “in the digital age” dominates the article, “the meat of it” are the implications that this approach brings with it… Read Full Article >
