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16 Jan 2025 21:55

🇮🇱 - The NYT reports that Israel's cabinet has delayed voting on the Gaza ceasefire.

Follow: @ThermopylaeNews

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16 Jan 2025 21:33

🇮🇱❌🇮🇱 — Netanyahu's Likud Party Responds to Ben Gvir's Statements:

Whoever dismantles the right-wing government will be remembered in disgrace forever - contrary to what Ben-Gvir said, the current agreement allows Israel to return to fighting with an American guarantee, obtain the weapons and means of combat it needs, make the most of the number of living hostages that will be released, maintain full control over the Philadelphi corridor and the security zone surrounding the Gaza Strip, and achieve major security achievements that will ensure Israel's security for generations.

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16 Jan 2025 21:09

🇺🇸📝 — President-elected Donald J. Trump just announced on Truth Social platform that he is appointing Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone as Special Ambassadors to Hollywood, California!

It is my honor to announce Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone, to be Special Ambassadors to a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California. They will serve as Special Envoys to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood, which has lost much business over the last four years to Foreign Countries, BACK—BIGGER, BETTER, AND STRONGER THAN EVER BEFORE! These three very talented people will be my eyes and ears, and I will get done what they suggest. It will again be, like The United States of America itself, The Golden Age of Hollywood!

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16 Jan 2025 14:49

🇺🇸🚢 Navy Just Revealed Tally Of Surface-To-Air Missiles Fired In Ongoing Red Sea Fight

The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet has fired nearly 400 individual munitions while battling Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the Red Sea over the past 15 months. That includes the firing of 120 SM-2 missiles, 80 SM-6 missiles, 160 rounds from destroyers and cruisers’ five-inch main guns, as well as a combined 20 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) and SM-3 missiles.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/navy-just-disclosed-how-many-of-each-of-its-surface-to-air-missiles-it-fired-during-red-sea-fight

📝 John Konrad: And yet the Navy still failed to keep the world’s most important choke point open

https://x.com/johnkonrad/status/1879353473017491701

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16 Jan 2025 11:28

Keith Woods: Larry Fink says countries with "xenophobic" immigration policies will be rewarded with a higher standard of living in the future

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📝 Anon: High-profile CEOs are adopting right-wing rhetoric because of how unpopular liberalism is becoming.

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16 Jan 2025 08:47

Mel Gibson on the destructive Los Angeles wildfires: “It looked like Dresden after Bomber Harris got through with it”

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16 Jan 2025 07:24

🇮🇱🇵🇸 More than 20 martyrs, most of them women and children, in the bombing of Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza while they were celebrating the ceasefire agreement.

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16 Jan 2025 06:27

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump's official presidential portrait has been published ahead of his inauguration in 5 days.

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15 Jan 2025 15:08

🇺🇸 Expeditionary Mining Could Help Win—or Prevent—the Next War

"The Department of Defense defines expeditionary forces as “an armed force organized to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country.”"

"Air and maritime superiority cannot be assumed in the next war."

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2025/january/expeditionary-mining-could-help-win-or-prevent-next-war

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15 Jan 2025 10:44

🇺🇸🕊🇨🇺 — In one of the least intelligent moves, the Outgoing Biden Administration removed the Communist Regime in Cuba from list of State Sponsors of Terrorism

➡️ It has long been known that the Cuban regime supports the FARC and ELN factions in Colombia, as well as Mapuche extremists in Chile, Maoist militants in Peru and the Polisario Front terrorists in southern Morocco

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15 Jan 2025 09:08

🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇨🇳 Trump: Deal with Putin and Buy Time with the Chinese

U.S. foreign policy and some aspects of its military doctrine are being remodeled under Trump and lessons from the Ukrainian battlefield.

Trump does not seem willing to guarantee Europe's security against the possibility of a Russian invasion. He has made it clear that he does not value NATO and believes Europeans should take care of their own security.

Increasing this distance, he has already announced plans to meet with President Putin soon after taking office, with whom he recently expressed admiration. This is an obvious move to reconstruct a new world order, aligning more closely with Russia and buying time to address issues with China.

🧵https://fxtwitter.com/pati_marins64/status/1879190643538342061

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14 Jan 2025 20:35

🇨🇳/🇺🇸 Chinese Exports Rise to Record Ahead of Looming Trump Tariffs

Chinese exports hit a record high as companies rushed to get goods out the door to make up for sluggish demand at home and ahead of the return of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House.

Exports rose 7.1% to 25.5 trillion yuan last year, China Central Television reported on Monday. Imports rose 2.3%, leaving an unprecedented trade surplus of 7.06 trillion yuan.

But this may be one of the last high points for Chinese trade, at least directly with the US, with Trump promising to impose even higher tariffs on Chinese goods when he takes office next week. Punitive levies may push Chinese firms to divert their exports, flooding other markets with cheap goods and widening trade tensions.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-13/chinese-exports-rise-to-record-ahead-of-looming-trump-tariffs

https://archive.ph/VawzB

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14 Jan 2025 19:29

🇩🇪 Afd-youth cancelled?

The international remigration-community is rightly celebrating the fact that the term has been confirmed in the AfD party manifesto. In my view, it is not yet the best version, but it is a good step. But unfortunately, something negative happened at the very same party conference.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/Martin_Sellner/status/1878898476932546925

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14 Jan 2025 17:43

🇨🇳🇺🇸 Arnaud Bertrand writes on X:

"The Xiaohongshu TikTok Refugee phenomenon is truly fascinating and really exciting if it perdures.

It would be the first time ever that we would have a social media app where Western and Chinese users interact at scale. Pretty ironic when this is spurred by an attempt by the U.S. government to get rid of TikTok because it is "Chinese" when it has no Chinese users nor Chinese content.

I've been testing the app 👇 and the phenomenon is real: a huge proportion of the posts in the main timeline are by "Tiktok refugees", with many posts being "refugees" asking questions to the Chinese user base.

The app is still missing some obvious features that would make it more usable to an international user base. You can have the app in English but it doesn't look like you can translate posts or videos yet. Which means that if you don't speak or read Chinese, you can only understand the posts that are in English (and vice-versa: no translation for English content into Chinese either). My bet is that the Xiaohongshu tech team in Shanghai (where Xiaohongshu is based) must already be working hard on this.

All in all this illustrates several important and actually quite hopeful lessons.

Firstly, this shapes up to be yet another U.S. attempt to contain China backfiring: instead of reducing Chinese tech influence, it's potentially creating an even more direct bridge between Chinese and Western users on a platform that's actually based in China, unlike TikTok which operates separately from its Chinese version Douyin.

Secondly, there's obviously significant untapped demand for genuine cross-cultural social media platforms, despite (or perhaps because of) the geopolitical tensions. Many people obviously do not want the digital iron curtain that the U.S. is trying to erect here: this is all happening organically without any promotional push from Xiaohongshu, people genuinely do not want an artificially divided world.

Lastly, less obvious but no less important, the business dimension is particularly interesting. Xiaohongshu isn't just another social media app - it's fundamentally an e-commerce platform where social features emerged organically around shopping.

If this trend continues, this has the potential to reshape cross-border commerce between China and the U.S. in really profound ways. Many "TikTok refugees" are actually small business owners who built their success on TikTok: imagine the potential of a platform that gives them direct access to Chinese consumers! This, alongside Chinese sellers finding new ways to reach American audiences, could create entirely new patterns of trade, bypassing traditional intermediaries.

This would be the icing on the cake with the other ironies: when governments are trying to 'de-risk' and decouple supply chains, Xiaohongshu could help the ground-level reality of ordinary entrepreneurs and consumers move in the exact opposite direction.

Anyhow, whether this phenomenon lasts or not, it reveals something that should give us all some measure of hope: while politicians and policymakers focus on trying to divide the world and fearmonger, ordinary people seem more interested in finding ways to connect. They're more interested in bridges than walls, and that's a good thing!"

📎 Arnaud Bertrand

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14 Jan 2025 14:58

🇫🇷🌍 French immigration, like US immigration, used to be near-exclusively European. Now it is mostly African and Middle Eastern.

📎 arctotherium

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16 Jan 2025 21:33

🇺🇸 — Trump seems to be bragging about putting pressure on Netanyahu

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16 Jan 2025 21:33

🇮🇱⚡️- Ben Gvir says his party will quit the Netanyahu Government if the Ceasefire deal goes through.

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16 Jan 2025 18:20

🇮🇱 Israeli minister Ben Gvir announces the establishment of the "National Guard"

📝 XLevant: "Meanwhile ben gvir is creating a private wagner milita"

https://x.com/XLevant/status/1879714433704055108

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16 Jan 2025 13:11

In his farewell speech, President Biden warns of a coming “oligarchy” and “tech-industrial complex” seeking to take over America.

Alongside Trump’s Cabinet nominees on the inaugural podium, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk will be seated.

📎 AF Post

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16 Jan 2025 10:02

🇺🇸/🇻🇪 "The New York Times published an article calling for a US military invasion of Venezuela"

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/opinion/maduro-venezuela-trump.html

📎 Alan MacLeod

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16 Jan 2025 08:17

#BREAKING

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸❗️ — Walla News' Guy Elster reports that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has promised his ministers that the war in Gaza would resume after the first phase of the deal, according to Israeli media reports, despite US statements that the deal would lead to a permanent truce.

https://fxtwitter.com/guyelster/status/1879774821086797972

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16 Jan 2025 06:52

🇵🇸🇵🇸📹 — Militants from the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ Military Wing parade in the Streets of Khan Younis, surrounded by hundreds of Gazans celebrating, folowing the announcement of the Ceasefire and Hostage Deal with Israel

🔗 OSINTdefender (@sentdefender)

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15 Jan 2025 18:02

📝 Andrew Torba on X: "This morning The New York Times is lamenting the “end of the neoliberal order” and admitting it was a total failure lmao."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/briefing/joe-biden-legacy.html

https://archive.ph/oxK2K

📎 Andrew Torba

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15 Jan 2025 12:48

🇺🇸🇨🇳🚘 US to ban Chinese smart cars

The United States finalized a rule Tuesday effectively barring Chinese technology from cars in the American market, taking aim at software and hardware from the world's second largest economy on national security risks.

"But the US actions could attract Beijing's retaliation, with the Chinese Commerce Ministry already calling Monday's AI-related export curbs "a flagrant violation" of international trade rules."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-ban-smart-cars-containing-152059540.html

📎 Megatron

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15 Jan 2025 10:19

“A 20-year US study found that 70 per cent of wealthy families lost their wealth by the second generation, and 90 per cent by the third," per FT.

In the next 25 years, over $100 trillion in assets — ranging from property, aged wines and artwork — will be transferred from the boomers and older generations to their heirs in the US alone, according to Cerulli Associates.

https://www.ft.com/content/0512915b-92f5-4edb-bfa7-c5e61756260a

📎 unusual_whales

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15 Jan 2025 07:20

🇮🇱/🇵🇸 Regarding the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire:

"Israel has capitulated on several factors, allowing for a deal to be reached:

▫️ Isreal has agreed to withdraw FULLY from Gaza leaving no troops or security zone. That includes a full withdrawal from the Philadelphi corridor.
▫️ It has agreed to allow Hamas to rule Gaza. That is not in the agreement, but there is also no mechanism to remove Hamas.
▫️ Israel has agreed not to exile released prisoners but rather let them into Gaza again.
▫️ Israel has waived its demand for a list of live hostages.
▫️ It has agreed to allow residents to return to northern Gaza with only symbolic security measures.
▫️ Israel agreed to accept dead bodies in the first stage.

All of these were red lines for Israel at one point. It is remarkable that all of them are being waived. The victory for Hamas is remarkable.

The reason this happened is clear. Despite incredible victories on the battlefield, Israel has not offered a political program to replace Hamas or moved to remove them from Gaza as a governing force. It has failed to translate IDF gains into political ones. That has, in essence, nullified all of its military achievements."

📎 academic_la

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14 Jan 2025 20:07

🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱 Congress gives their approval for President Donald Trump to negotiate with Denmark to acquire Greenland

📎 unusual_whales

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14 Jan 2025 18:59

🇬🇧 Rapist can’t be deported because he’s bisexual, judges rule

A Jamaican man who raped a sleeping woman cannot be deported from the UK after release from prison because he is bisexual, judges have ruled.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/bisexual-rapist-cannot-be-deported-judges-rule-278jgmrmq

https://archive.is/bIHuy

📝 Christian Heiens: "How does liberalism end?

It ends with the rights of rapists being prioritized over those being raped."

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14 Jan 2025 15:53

🇪🇺 Europe is setting the stage for a global scramble for LNG

📈 Europe will need 10% more LNG in 2025 on lower Russian gas
🇺🇸 New North American supply may help, but pace of production ramp-up is uncertain
⚔️ This could pit EU vs Asia for LNG this summer

🧵https://fxtwitter.com/SStapczynski/status/1878690816350384179

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14 Jan 2025 13:12

📱📱 Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, has hit #1 on the US App Store following news of a possible TikTok ban on January 19th.

📎 Pop Base