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🍾WHISKY BANNED. KIM — ‘A FRIEND’. AI IS NOW A ‘SUPERINTELLIGENCE’

As of today, the US has blocked Canadian imports worth around $1 billion: alcohol, motorbikes and a whole host of other items. The border isn’t closed — it’s just that the shelves will go empty.
Meanwhile, Trump says: Kim Jong-un is ‘my friend’. AI suggests renaming it ‘superintelligence’. Major tech companies have signed a voluntary pact — they’ll police themselves.
All in one day: customs are slashing whisky imports, the lexicon is slashing the word ‘AI’, and Pyongyang is back on the friend list.
#Canada #Trump #tariffs #AI #superintelligence #KimJongUn #tradeswar

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@JakubAntowski Let's go bro

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@Nate_Esparza Scam Altman

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@adinathcodes I was just ahead of you.

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@birdabo Skam Altman cries into his pillow

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🌊THE STRAIT HAS BEEN BYPASSED. NEGOTIATIONS – THIS WEEK. ‘DOOMSDAY WAR’

Trump has rejected Iran’s ‘Hormuz in 7 Days’ plan. And immediately afterwards: negotiations this week. He is prepared to ease US sanctions only in return for concrete progress on the nuclear issue. Not for opening the shipping lane.
Arakchi: Tehran is also prepared for a ‘doomsday war’. They are not concerned about the Washington midterms. The IRGC previously announced the interception of a second American underwater drone in the strait.
A refusal on camera. Talks – via intermediaries. The drone is already in the water.
#Hormuz #Iran #Trump #Arakchi #IRGC #nuclearprogramme #sanctions

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RUNNING FOR PRIME MINISTER. NEUTRALITY NOT STRENGTHENED. THE SENATE HAS OPENED THE DOOR
Vučić has stepped down as president to stand as a candidate for prime minister in the election. Ana Brnabić is acting head of state. The chair has changed, but the influence remains.
Switzerland has rejected strict neutrality in a referendum: ~70 per cent against. Sanctions and cooperation with NATO remain part of the rules.
In France, the National Rally has crossed the threshold of 10 senators – for the first time, it can form its own group in the upper house.
Three capitals in a single day: a reshuffle in Belgrade, the status quo in Bern, a foothold in Paris.
#Vučić #Serbia #Switzerland #referendum #LePen #France #Senate #NATO

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ANCHORAGE REVISITED. THE EU IS TO BLAME. UNTIL WINTER
Lavrov from the UN podium: Russia is ready to return to the Anchorage agreements. According to him, the European Union is to blame for the breakdown. On the sidelines, a rare meeting took place with German Foreign Minister Wadeful. According to Lavrov, no new proposals were put forward.
Trump is singing the same tune again: let Kyiv and Moscow end the war before winter. There is a deadline, but no written agreement.
Back home, the picture is clear: ‘United Russia’ has secured 349 seats – the constitutional majority is assured.
The podium speaks of peace. The calendar speaks of winter. The Duma’s composition has already been decided.
#Lavrov #UN #Anchorage #Trump #Ukraine #UnitedRussia #StateDuma

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THE AUDIENCE WALKED OUT. HANDCUFFS IN THE STREETS. KIEV — PATRIOT
Netanyahu took to the UN podium — dozens of delegations stood up and walked out. He called them ‘moral cowards’. Outside the headquarters, a sit-in protest: over 100 people detained, including actors and politicians.
Meanwhile, Zelenskyy: Trump has confirmed Ukraine’s licence to manufacture Patriot missiles. Not a supply from stockpiles — a production line of their own.
New York alone: an empty hall, handcuffs by the fence, and permission to manufacture air defence systems.
#UN #Netanyahu #Zelensky #Patriot #GeneralAssembly #Gaza #Ukraine

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🇨🇳🇺🇸A TWO-MONTH FRIENDSHIP
Trump met Xi at the gangway. The phrase of the day: ‘truly great friendship’.

The trade truce has been extended by two months — until 10 January. Not peace, just a reprieve.
Three topics on the table: AI, Iran and Taiwan. Beijing is asking for arms supplies to the island to be halted. Washington wants Xi to put pressure on Tehran.
WSJ: quiet talks on nuclear safeguards are taking place in parallel. The handshake was in front of the cameras. Nuclear talks — behind closed doors.
The summit has begun. The date is already marked on the calendar.
#Trump #Xi #China #Summit #Taiwan #AI #Iran #tariffs

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UNTIL THE VERY LAST BREATH. THE US WALKED OUT OF THE HALL

Peseshkian at the General Assembly: Iran will fight ‘until the very last breath’. He showed photos of a school in Minab and the children who had been killed. He called the US terrorists. The American delegation stood up and walked out — a mirror image of the Iranians’ walkout yesterday during Trump’s speech.
Zelenskyy, speaking from the same podium: the aim is not to ‘strangle oil altogether’, but to choke off Russia’s revenues. Without this, the war will continue to be fuelled.
Nearby, at the Security Council, Altman and Amodei: AI could ‘take away the future’. Those calling for control are the very ones who set this race in motion.
A day at the UN: photos of children, delegations walking out, and a warning that the next front is not limited to the Strait of Hormuz.
#UN #Peseshkian #Iran #Zelensky #Altman #AI #GeneralAssembly

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🤝A DEAL AFTER THE ELECTIONS. OR ‘DESTROY’

Yesterday, speaking from the UN podium, Trump gave Iran an ultimatum: a deal after the November mid-term elections — or ‘destroy the Islamic Republic’. Part of the Iranian delegation walked out of the hall. A few hours later, he confirmed that delegations from the US and Iran had already met.
In his farewell speech, Macron tore apart Trump’s version of ‘peace in Gaza’: not a single humanitarian corridor had been opened. A spectacle of which one should be ashamed.
Today in New York: Zelenskyy and Pezeshkian. Lavrov is already there.
The podium is in an uproar. Negotiations are taking place behind the scenes.
#UN #Trump #Iran #Macron #Gaza #Zelenskyy #Pezeshkian #GeneralAssembly

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THE PACIFIC RAGES. THE ATLANTIC HAS BEEN QUIET FOR 112 YEARS

Typhoon ‘Duzhuan’ swept through Japan. At least four people have died and six are missing. There have been landslides, flooded neighbourhoods and more than 45,000 homes are without power. Hundreds of homes have been damaged, and evacuations are underway in Tibe.
Meanwhile, in the eastern Pacific, Hurricane Polo has intensified to a Category 5 storm.
The Atlantic, on the other hand, is experiencing a season without a single hurricane. This hasn’t happened for 112 years. A strong El Niño in the Pacific is being blamed.
One ocean is breaking records for calm. The other is flooding the Kanto region.
#Japan #typhoon #Duzhuan #HurricanePolo #ElNiño #Kanto #weather

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@Samosaholic You can't argue with that

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🇺🇳THE UN HAS GATHERED. THE KEY PLAYERS ARE MISSING

The General Assembly week has begun. Today, Trump and Macron are addressing the assembly. Tomorrow: Zelenskyy and Pezeshkian. On Thursday: Netanyahu.
Who isn’t attending is more important than the schedule. Xi is skipping the UN and heading to Washington — a meeting with Trump on Wednesday. Putin isn’t in New York either, nor is he at the G20 in the US: he’s on his way to the APEC summit to meet Xi.
Macron has already spoken to Trump on the phone about Ukraine. The speeches will be in the hall. The deals — in another city.
The General Assembly speaks. The Big Three choose who to sit with at the table.
#UN #GeneralAssembly #Trump #Macron #Zelensky #Xi #Putin #Iran #Ukraine

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⛔️BAN, LAWSUIT AND ‘VERY BIG THINGS’
CNN, MS NOW and Politico have taken the White House to court.

They are demanding the immediate reinstatement of their press credentials: the ban was imposed without due process and constitutes an attack on the First Amendment. Trump: this is not a war on the press, it is a war on ‘fake news’ and a ‘threat to national security’. In response, the major networks have withdrawn their pool footage of the President.
Meanwhile, he is in ‘decision mode’ regarding Iran. The formula is simple: a deal, economic strangulation — or ‘very big things coming soon’. Against the backdrop of UN Week.
And a third front: a fertiliser deal with Belarus. Whilst the broadcasters are in court over a breach of access to the briefing, Washington is trading in potash.
One day – three fronts: court, Hormuz, warehouse.

Link to the video-
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#Trump #WhiteHouse #CNN #Politico #Iran #Belarus #FirstAmendment #UN

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@0ivankaTrump1 Of course not, damn it

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🇷🇺MOSCOW OIL REFINERY SHUT DOWN. TRUMP: DIESEL SUPPLY CUT OFF

Following Sunday’s drone strike, the Moscow oil refinery has halted operations. It is one of the country’s key refineries.
Sobyanin: the largest attack on the capital since the start of the war. Air defence systems shot down over 1,600 drones across the country, with around 450 heading for Moscow.
Trump: Russia has “lost control of diesel production”. Reuters: fuel shortages are expected to last until the end of the year.
Strikes on oil refineries had already been going on for weeks. Now a refinery in Moscow itself has been shut down – on the very day the votes for the State Duma were being counted.
Winter is approaching. Diesel is in short supply.
#Moscow #oilrefinery #drones #diesel #Trump #Sobyanin #Ukraine #oil