🇺🇸 SHE FLIPS THE SCRIPT: Trump's Attorney-General nominee Pam Bondi torpedoes Senator Whitehouse (Democrat.)

Whitehouse insinuates Bondi will "weaponize" the Department of Justice (DOJ).

WHITEHOUSE: The DOJ cannot just start with a name, and then look for a crime. You must start with a crime and look for a name.

BONDI: That's exactly what the DOJ did to Trump, from 2016... I will not target people based on political affiliation!

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🇺🇸 "ULTIMATE MERITOCRACY" - the CIA: John Ratcliffe, Trump's CIA Director nominee, vows to restore proper leadership, never allowing political or personal biases in their covert work.

He calls on CIA officers "all over the globe" to be ready to make a difference based on his envisaged "high" ideals.

If this isn't for you, it's time to find a new line of work - he says.

We're not sure if in the context of the CIA, "high ideals" means even more pervasive activity than already takes place...

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🇺🇸 DIDN'T WANT TO LEAVE ON A SOUR NOTE: President-elect Trump's team is critical to ceasefire deal - State Department admits.

The US, Egypt & Qatar are guarantors of this ceasefire ...We're grateful to the Trump team for being at the negotiating table - Spox Miller speaks on cooperation during a change in power.

Earlier, Biden took credit for the whole thing! That's after 15 months of non-action and 5 days before Trump's inaguration...

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🇺🇸 "ÇLIMATE CHANGE" - No laughing matter: "That was the fossil fuel industry calling"- Bernie Sanders cracks a joke at Trump's pick for Environmental Protection Agency Chief, Lee Zeldin.

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🇺🇸 PETTY THIEF BEARS STALIN'S NAME: Diego Stalin Tavarez Fleury brutally robs an 83-year-old woman of her lottery winnings, footage caught on a Florida security camera.

The culprit is still at large.

How not to wear the name of a historical figure proudly; albeit a controversial one.

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🇳🇱🇺🇦 "NOT CLEAR HOW TO END THE WAR" - Dutch FM Veldkamp arrives in Kiev to a worse-for-wear Zelensky.

Unfortunately, he brought no good news from "Borrell's garden" - EU, the beacon of democracy and freedom!

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🇺🇸 BIDEN BACKTRACKS ON TIKTOK BAN - the law banning the social media app was to come into force 1 day before Trump's inaguration.

The Biden Administration now says it won't force TikTok to go dark for 170 MILLION US users this Sunday, preferring to "leave the ban to Trump."

What was all that about?

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🇵🇸🇮🇱 HE'S ALIVE: Russian national Alexander Trufanov, 29, is reportedly included on the list of first hostages to be released by Hamas.

Trufanov has had 2 birthdays in captivity & his family have been vocal about his release, not knowing whether he's still alive.

As per ceasefire terms, 33 people will come out on Sunday, including women & children. Israel will in turn release all Palestinian women and children under 19 from its prisons.

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🌍 MOVE OVER, LEFT: Left wing parties are the least popular globally since the Cold War.

In a study conducted across 73 democratic elections of 2024, leftist parties obtained a record low of 45% of global votes.

Perhaps there is a correlation between leftist governments and the consistent fall of living standards in the West, since the Cold War?

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🇧🇴 IMMORAL MORALES? A Bolivian judge orders an arrest warrant out for ex-Prez Morales in alleged sex abuse of a minor case.

Morales is accused of having a child with a teenage girl in 2016. He denies the claims, calling it "legal warfare" against him.

The Western publication notes "Morales lives in the headquarters of the coca plant growers' Union, behind 3 cordons of security guards to avoid being arrested", which throws doubt on the entire story.

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🇺🇸 UNQUALIFIED VIROLOGIST & IMMUNOLOGIST Bill Gates Says he had 3-hour dinner with Trump to discuss HIV & Polio vaccines.

Global health is the area that I work in and such amazing things have happened there - the "philanthropist" asserts.

With millions of his dollars tied up in vaccine sales to governments - there's no vested self-interest here at all..

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🇮🇷🇷🇺 "WE DON'T NEED THE WEST" - Iran’s Pezeshkian signs historic treaty with Russia, which will see increased cooperation across several spheres.

Russia's major bank VTB will also open branches in Iran.

Iran has thousands of years of history - if we had acted on [external instruction], we would have changed many times, but we remain ourselves....

Moscow and Tehran don’t agree that someone from the outside should determine the roles of our countries - he says.

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🇬🇧 RICH, BUT CLUELESS: Meghan & Harry's podcast flops due to strange episode ideas, or lack thereof.

Big names like Taylor Swift and Beyonce refused interviews, while episode concepts included "trialing of different hot chocolates daily, and interviewing Trump & Putin on being sociopaths."

The deal was reportedly worth over £18 million with Spotify, but no consistent listeners tuned in. Would you?!

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🇰🇷 KOREA' LARGEST POLITICAL SCANDAL IN DECADES: Impeached South Korean Prez Yoon officially arrested for starting a rebellion.

A 44,000-strong pro-Yoon crowd awaited his arrival to court, breaking windows and rioting. Some Koreans blame the "far-right" & "Trump-inspired radicals."

Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), which Yoon accused of being pro-China & pro-North Korea are calling for the dissolution of the Right-wing People's Power Party (PPP.)

But why are there US flags waving?

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🇷🇺 "IT FLEW RIGHT IN THE HEART...now tell me God does not exist": Russian soldier saved from a bullet by an icon in his pocket.

The night of 18 to 19 Jan also marks the Epiphany, when Russians dip in ice cold waters to cleanse.

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IDF sing the anthem as they withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

The ceasefire deal & first hostage release is due to come into force in several hours.

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