/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

25 Dec 2024 09:48

Also, white immigrants are enormously overrepresented among actual top-tier immigrant talent (real achievements rather than credentials). Removing country caps would make things harder, not easier, for them (and everyone who isn't Indian, Chinese, or Mexican).

📎 arctotherium

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

25 Dec 2024 07:21

🦅🇺🇸 The bald eagle is officially America's national bird after Biden's signature

The bald eagle has landed in the U.S. code after President Joe Biden signed a bill Tuesday making the predator the official national bird.

Congress passed the measure with unanimous support.

Although the bird of prey is at the center of the Great Seal of the United States, it was never formally recognized as the country's official bird. Some of the Founding Fathers — Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson — were tasked with creating a national seal but simply couldn't come to an agreement.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/bald-eagle-officially-americas-national-bird-bidens-signature-rcna185380

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

25 Dec 2024 02:05

🇪🇺The EU has begun emptying gas storage facilities at the fastest rate since the energy crisis began in 2021, The Financial Times reports.

The publication writes that the reason was cold weather and a reduction in seaborne imports.

Currently, the level of gas reserves is 75%, although in December last year it was at 90%.

It is also reported that Europe is facing competition for LNG imports from Asian countries, which has led to a need to use up more of its accumulated reserves.

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

24 Dec 2024 19:36

Trump appoints Indian loyalist Sriram Krishnan to advise on tech policy.

Sriram has shown his main focus is defrauding the immigration system in favor of Indians.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/donald-trumps-ai-head-sriram-krishnan-bats-to-remove-country-caps-for-green-cards-heres-why-it-is-good-news-for-indians/articleshow/116629100.cms

📎 AF Post

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

24 Dec 2024 12:50

🇪🇬🇸🇴🌍 Egypt To Join New AU Peacekeeping Force In Somalia: FM

Egypt's foreign minister said Monday that his country will take part in a new African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, as the two countries draw closer amid tensions with Ethiopia.

"Egypt decided to join this mission based on a request from the Somali government and the welcoming of the African Union Peace and Security Council," Badr Abdelatty told a joint press conference with his Somali counterpart Ahmed Moalim Fiqi in Cairo on Monday.

Tensions flared in the Horn of Africa after Ethiopia signed a maritime deal in January with the breakaway region of Somaliland, pushing Mogadishu closer to Addis Ababa's regional rival Cairo.

https://www.barrons.com/news/egypt-to-join-new-au-peacekeeping-force-in-somalia-fm-8057f6cd

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

24 Dec 2024 08:59

🚢 Trump Sets Sail: President-Elect Wades Into Maritime Waters

With just weeks until his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is making waves in the maritime world, diving into port labor disputes, the Jones Act debate, and even tensions over the Panama Canal.

Trump’s recent moves could signal a strong maritime focus in his upcoming administration, leaving the industry speculating on what might come next.

▫️Trump has thrown his weight behind the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) in its labor dispute with the U.S. Maritime Alliance (USMX) over port automation. As a critical January 15, 2025, deadline looms, Trump’s vocal opposition to automation aligns him firmly with labor interests, drawing sharp criticism from port employers advocating modernization.

▫️Trump also recently reignited the debate over the century-old Jones Act by sharing a pro-Jones Act article on Truth Social. The move suggests continued support for the law, which mandates that goods transported between U.S. ports be carried on American-built, American-owned, and American-crewed ships.

▫️In a sharp rebuke of Panama, Trump called the country’s canal tolls “exorbitant” and vowed to stop what he labeled as a “rip-off” of American interests. The Panama Canal, a vital trade artery facilitating 6% of global maritime trade, has faced rising costs due to drought and operational challenges. Trump’s comments have reignited discussions about U.S. strategic interests in the canal, particularly given China’s growing presence in the region.

▫️Trump’s maritime agenda also intersects with his broader trade policies. Recent announcements of steep tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, China, and BRICS nations could disrupt global trade lanes, further straining an industry already grappling with geopolitical tensions, supply chain disruptions, and rising costs.

https://gcaptain.com/trump-sets-sail-president-elect-wades-into-maritime-waters/

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

24 Dec 2024 07:01

Nissan and Honda discuss merger plans to create world’s no. 3 automaker

Japan's two giant will need to combine forces to stave off the EV competition from China

📎 Prof. Michael Tanchum

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 22:18

⛽️🤝🇧🇬🤝🗺 — 🇪🇺 Euroactiv | Russia continues to ship oil directly to the EU despite sanctions, investigation finds | December 17, 2024:

"An investigation by Ukrainska Pravda (UP) has found that Russian oil continues to flow into the EU despite sanctions, with shipments under the flags of Liberia and Panama reaching the ports of Romania and Bulgaria, both EU and NATO members.

Nearly three years on from Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western sanctions designed to weaken the Russian economy have failed to halt its oil exports.

Despite sanctions on Russian oil, the EU paid approximately €140 billion for oil and gas in 2022, including €80 billion for oil, according to the Financial Times. This financial support has enabled Russia to continue funding its military aggression against Ukraine."

#Sanctions

🗄 Archive

🔗 Source:

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 21:05

🇩🇪 AfD president, Alice Weidel, struggled to hold back tears while speaking to the crowd.

"Friends, I repeat once again that we want something to change in our country. We want to be able to live safely again.

We should never have to mourn again a mother who lost her son in such a senseless way"

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 20:07

⚓✈️❌✈️🇺🇸 — 🇺🇸 ABC News | 2 Navy pilots shot down over Red Sea in 'friendly fire' incident: Military | December 22, 2024:

"Two U.S. Navy pilots ejected safely over the Red Sea after their F/A-18 fighter aircraft was mistakenly shot down early Sunday in what military officials are calling "an apparent case of friendly fire."

One of the pilots has minor injuries, according to a news release from U.S. Central Command.

The guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg, which is part of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, mistakenly fired on and hit the aircraft, that was flying off the USS Harry S. Truman, according to the news release."

🗄 Archive

🔗 Source:

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 17:56

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense is sending air defense operators to the front lines.

According to The Guardian, citing multiple sources, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reallocating soldiers who operate anti-air defenses to the front lines.

The troop shortage in Ukraine has reached an unprecedented level, with the average age of soldiers in the trenches being around 46 to 47 years old.

The Ukrainian MoD is likely redirecting personnel from Patriot missile batteries, which require a large number of soldiers to operate. For instance, a Patriot battery requires about 90 to 100 personnel, while an IRIS-T system can be managed with roughly half that number, and a SAMP/T system can operate with just 20 to 25 personnel.

While it is possible to reduce the number of soldiers assigned to these missile batteries, this still amounts to fewer than 500 men in total who lack combat experience and won’t be deployed to the front lines.

This situation underscores a broader political issue in Ukraine, where about 10% of police officers are fighting on the front lines, but 40,000 others men are assigned to territorial command centers, away from the fighting.

🔗 https://fxtwitter.com/pati_marins64/status/1870582501632315634

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 16:44

🇪🇺 EU GDP growth predictions over time.

Forecasts are always revised for the worst, with growth not meeting expectations.

📝: This is what dismantling nuclear and coal power plants for "the sake of the planet" looks like. Death of industry and productivity. Europe's only avenues of revenue left are tourism and luxury goods.

@CIG_telegram

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 15:59

Nick Fuentes on X:

"So now Palantir, Anduril, OpenAI, and SpaceX are forming a consortium to bid for American defense contracts… meanwhile, the managing partner of Andreessen-Horowitz has been placed in charge of White House personnel.

But Trump said “woke is bullshit!!!” So it’s all good.

That’s Marc Andreessen, angel investor for Israeli spy Bari Weiss and advisor to Mark Zuckerberg—

And Ben Horowitz, son of David Horowitz, the prominent neocon who mentored Stephen Miller and launched the career of Ben Shapiro

Palantir— CIA contractor, co-founded by Alex Karp who brags about killing the far right & hates Christian Nationalism

Anduril— founded by FB alum Palmer Luckey, self-described “Super-Zionist”

OpenAI— founded by Sam Altman who officiated gay wedding of Keith Rabois/Jacob Helberg"

📎 Nicholas J. Fuentes

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 14:00

The 2030s will be the decade where several major European & East Asian economies see 20% or more of their population being age 70 and above. In 2030 Italy hits this milestone, in 2033 Germany, 2034 South Korea & Spain, & in 2035 France & Taiwan. Over 90% of 70+ retired.

The age 60 plus voting bloc will be a clear majority of the electorate in most of these countries. Will be hard to have natalism, a push for new infrastructure, a push for more defense spending, & pension & healthcare remain untouched all at the same time.

Unlike the U.S. and Australia Europe and East Asia do not have a large Generation Z. That is their downfall. They will put more and more of a tax burden on a smaller and smaller population. This is not sustainable. Lots for other countries to learn from this.

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 10:43

Palantir Technologies (PLTR) and startup Anduril are talking with many other tech companies, including OpenAI and Elon Musk's SpaceX, to form a consortium to jointly bid on U.S. government contracts, The Financial Times reported Sunday.

https://www.ft.com/content/6cfdfe2b-6872-4963-bde8-dc6c43be5093

https://archive.ph/si8qE

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

25 Dec 2024 09:14

arctotherium on X:

"In practice, "remove country caps" just means Indianmaxxing. We've seen how this plays out in Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand and it's not pretty. Indians as a group are extremely left-wing and Indianizing the country's elite will destroy it."

📎 arctotherium

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

25 Dec 2024 06:27

🛢 The American Shale Patch Is All About Depletion Now

With just a month left before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term at the Oval Office, oil prices have been struggling to find direction, intensifying the notion that oil markets seem content to wait for him to take office.

According to Goehring & Rozencwajg LLC, a fundamental research firm specializing in contrarian natural resource investments, U.S. shale output is in the early innings of a protracted decline, with depletion, not market dynamics or regulatory overreach, the chief culprit. The analysts had previously predicted that the explosive production growth triggered by the U.S. shale revolution would flatline in late 2024 or early 2025.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/The-American-Shale-Patch-Is-All-About-Depletion-Now.amp.html

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

24 Dec 2024 21:25

"There was very little firing - practically none at all. A friend of mine who was in business with a German firm in London assured me there would be no firing at all at Christmas. Of course as you can believe I rather laughed at the idea. However towards midnight the fun began. First they started lighting huge bonfires just behind the trenches and then began the carols. My word they can sing too! I was on guard from 10 to 12 with Bill Perplatt and we had a time listening to them. They were accompanied by brass bands. But the greatest surprise came on Christmas just before we went down to breakfast, and when the day came and we were back at the breastworks, the Germans had come out of their trenches. Both English and Germans were chatting together behind the trenches, smoking, and exchanging cigarettes and cigars. Of course most of us went up to see the fun. We hardly believed it. However it was true enough."

Sunday Times (1915). The Christmas Truce: An Extraordinarily Nice Crowd, Feb 14. p. 1.

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

24 Dec 2024 16:54

🏳️‍🌈 Homosexual couple sentenced to 100 years in prison with no chance of parole, for raping their two adopted boys and letting other homosexual men do the same.

Will and Zack Zulock are two popular LGBT activists in the state of Georgia.

One of them had a prior conviction for molesting a 14 year old boy in 2011 but this didn’t make Child Protection Services in Georgia to prevent the two men from adopting kids.

@CIG_telegram

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

24 Dec 2024 10:20

🚢🇷🇺 Russian Military Sealift Ship Sinks After Engine Room Explosion

On Monday, a sanctioned Russian cargo ship sustained an engine room explosion off Spain and sank, leaving two crewmembers missing.

At about 1230 hours local time, the Ursa Major was under way eastbound in the Strait of Gibraltar when she sustained an explosion in the engine room. She slowed and deviated from course, then began to list.

AIS data shows that a Spanish Navy warship, the Spanish response vessel Clara Campoamor and a good Samaritan vessel - the Sparta, another sanctioned Russian cargo ship - came to the aid of the crew. 14 seafarers were rescued and two remained missing as of late Monday.

Ursa Major was operated by a subsidiary of sanctioned Russian defense company Oboronlogistika. She was a mainstay of the Russian supply route to Tartus, Syria, the Russian Navy's longtime base in the Eastern Mediterranean. The U.S. Treasury included the heavy lift vessel in a package of Ukraine-related sanctions in May 2022.

https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/russian-military-sealift-ship-sinks-after-engine-room-explosion

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

24 Dec 2024 08:07

🇷🇺 Russia's naval deployment in the Mediterranean on the morning of Dec-21 as reported by OSINT.

Task force remains near Tartus, covering the Russian withdrawal as five vessels could be heading to Tartus for a seaborn evacuation.

https://russianfleetanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/12/russian-forces-in-mediterranean-wk512024.html

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

24 Dec 2024 00:20

🇶🇦❌🇪🇺 Qatar vows to stop EU gas sales if fined under due diligence law

Qatar will stop shipping gas to the EU if member states strictly enforce a new law cracking down on forced labour and environmental damage, Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi told the Financial Times in an interview published on Sunday.

The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, approved this year, requires larger companies operating in the European Union to check whether their supply chains use forced labour or cause environmental damage and to take action if they do. Penalties include fines of up to 5% of global turnover.

"If the case is that I lose 5% of my generated revenue by going to Europe, I will not go to Europe. I’m not bluffing, Kaabi told the newspaper, adding that "5% of generated revenue of QatarEnergy means 5% of generated revenue of the Qatar state. This is the people's money,  so I cannot lose that kind of money - and nobody would accept losing that kind of money."

Kaabi, the chief executive of state-owned QatarEnergy, has said the EU should thoroughly review the due diligence law. He has also said that his Gulf country has no concerns about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's promise to lift a cap on liquefied natural gas exports.

Qatar, among the world's top LNG exporters, is seeking to play a larger role in Asia and Europe as competition from top supplier the United Sates increases. It plans to expand its liquefaction capacity to 142 million tons per year by 2027 from 77 million.

🔗 https://archive.ph/tkAmQ

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 21:40

🇺🇸🇬🇹⚡️- An unidentified female was set on fire by a Guatemalan migrant on the New York City subway.

Note: the video shown is incredibly graphic.

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 20:59

🇩🇪 Between 20-25k people have gathered in an anti-immigration rally in Magdeburg and to lay candles and flowers at the site of the terror attack.

@CIG_telegram

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 18:13

🇺🇸 Biden commutes 37 out of 40 federal death row sentences to life without parole.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Boston Marathon Bombing), Robert Bowers (Pennsylvania Synagogue Shooting), and Dylann Roof (Charleston Church shooting) are excluded from the commutations.

🔗 https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/23/fact-sheet-president-biden-commutes-the-sentences-of-37-individuals-on-death-row/

📎 AF Post

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 16:46

🇮🇱❌✝️ Days before Christmas, Israeli occupying forces destroyed a decades-old Christian cross atop Mount Hermon, known in Arabic as Jabal al-Sheikh.

The site, long referred to as "The Cross," has been a significant pilgrimage destination for Christians from the region and around the world. An Israeli soldier reportedly stated, "We really didn’t like it, and we were worried that from now on, no one would have a reason to see a cross there or call this place ‘The Cross.’"

The act follows Israel's takeover of the strategically important mountain after the removal of Bashar al-Assad from power. Mount Hermon, a critical observation point between Syria and Lebanon and a vital water source, holds deep historical and spiritual significance. In the Hebrew Bible, it marks the northern border of the so-called Promised Land, while in the Book of Enoch, it is the site where fallen angels descended to take human wives. Many also believe it to be the location of Jesus' transfiguration, as described in the New Testament.

This latest move demonstrates Israel's ongoing desecration of holy sites and cultural landmarks in occupied territories, further erasing the region's religious and historical heritage.

🔗 Cradle Media

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 16:41

🇨🇳 China places massive order for kamikaze drones

A Chinese drone manufacturer has disclosed a massive government order for almost a million lightweight kamikaze drones, to be delivered by 2026.

📝 Carolina Lion: "The Chinese military just placed an order 1,000,000 -that is not a typo, one million- kamikaze drones to be delivered within a year. Coupled with China's already formidable missile arsenal that spells trouble for Taiwan."

📎 Carolina Lion

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 15:35

🇫🇷🇹🇩 French troops are leaving Chad after the African country announced the end of its defense accord with France

📎 CGTN Africa

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 13:17

Pope again condemns 'cruelty' of Israeli strikes on Gaza

Pope Francis doubled down Sunday on his condemnation of Israel's strikes on the Gaza Strip, denouncing their "cruelty" for the second time in as many days despite Israel accusing him of "double standards".

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241222-pope-again-condemns-cruelty-of-israeli-strikes-on-gaza

/CIG/ Telegram | Counter Intelligence Global

23 Dec 2024 09:56

President Trump publicly commits to designating Mexican Cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations once he assumes office.

📎 All Source News