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NASA’s future is red: Musk pushes for a Mars-focused space agency
Billionaire Elon Musk, head of the US Department of Government Efficiency, is pushing for a major overhaul of NASA's programs, focusing on preparing humanity for missions to Mars. Musk plans to align NASA’s priorities with his vision, which includes reallocating federal spending, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The shift could have a major impact on SpaceX, already one of the US space agency’s key contractors. Sources say NASA’s resources would be redirected towards Martian missions, with SpaceX employees instructed to prioritize Mars-bound projects over NASA’s lunar program.
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🦫Poland eyes reinstating compulsory military service amid ‘Russia threat’ hype
Not content with having over 300,000 reservists, Poland wants to round up at least 7 MILLION, Major General Maciej Klisz told Polish Radio.
For this, bringing back mandatory military service is "inevitable,” said the operational commander of Poland's Armed Forces.
The general pushed for WOMEN in conscription too, doubling down on Poland’s exaggerated "Russia threat" narrative that has been fueling its dangerous march toward extreme militarization. 🤡
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🚫Trump takes ANTI-WOKE campaign to Europe
French companies with US government contracts have been told to align with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI agenda or lose out, Les Echos reported.
Businesses have been given five days to fill in a document confirming compliance with the merit-based opportunities law that ditches diversity preferences in hiring and contracting.
The move fuels further US-Europe rift after Trump’s tariff crackdown, NATO criticism and desire to reach a Ukraine settlement through rapprochement with Russia.
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✅Throwback: WEF’s not-so-subtle BRAINWASHING of future 'global leaders' EXPOSED
Recruits are carefully handpicked, networked, and sculpted to fit perfectly into a global agenda before being placed in key positions of power.
‘We select you, we connect you … and you are PRIVILEGED,’ Wadia Ait Hamza, the Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the WEF in 2022, told the future global elites at the video from a private WEF session that feels more like a full-on indoctrination boot camp.
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🔍Washington’s Pacific playbook: Pentagon chief calls Japan ‘cornerstone of peace’ as US turns region into POWDER KEG
Pete Hegseth, who arrived in Japan from the Philippines as part of his debut visit to Asia, vowed that Japan would be “on the front lines of any contingency we might face in the western Pacific.”
He repeated the go-to narrative that China’s actions were allegedly "aggressive and coercive" in the region.
📹In effect, the US continues to push to make Japan a frontline force, with its key Asian ally already hosting:
🔴around 50,000 US military personnel,
🔴squadrons of fighter squadrons,
🔴America’s only forward deployed aircraft carrier strike group.
🔴The USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is homeported at Yokosuka Naval Base and operates under the US 7th Fleet.
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🚫 Thousands protest against US missile deployment in Germany
Around 2,500 rallied in Wiesbaden under the slogan: "No new US medium-range missiles — disband the US command in Wiesbaden!" local media reported.
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👎 Trump says he will not fire anyone from the Signal chat
"All I can tell you is it’s just a witch hunt, and it's the only thing the press wants to talk about, because you have nothing else to talk about," he told NBC News.
💥 Police shuts down Pentagon city mall after fights break out
Chaotic fights in the crowded fashion center led to several arrests by Arlington police.
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❗️ Syria announces new government - what has changed?
🔶 Key ministers, including the foreign, interior and defense ministers, retained their posts in Syria's new interim government.
🔶 Ex-Prime Minister Mohammed Bashir was appointed Minister of Energy.
🔶 Syria's new cabinet includes only one woman - former opposition politician Hind Kabawat, who became minister of social affairs and labor.
🔶 Two new ministries have appeared in the new government - the Ministry of Emergencies and Disasters and the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
🔶 Speaking after the swearing-in ceremony, FM Asaad Shaibani promised to "open Syria to the world and restore its status".
"The new Syrian government will be a government of change and construction, and we will focus on protecting citizens," said Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Plane crashes into a house in Minnesota
No survivors from a small plane falling in a residential area of Brooklyn Park, officials report. Miraculously, no residents were injured by the accident.
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⛳️ Trump's meets Stubb on the golf course
The US and Finnish presidents discussed the purchase of icebreakers for the US Arctic fleet. They also won a golf tournament in the process, Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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Trump’s top national security officials accidentally sent Yemen STRIKE PLANS to editor of leading neoliberal magazine
The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg says he was included in a Signal messaging chain detailing US plans to attack the Houthis hours before operations began.
A sample of the conversation:
💬 Vice-President Vance: “@Pete Hegseth if you think we should do it let’s do it. I just hate bailing Europe out again.”
💬 Defense Secretary Hegseth: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC. But Mike [Waltz] is correct, we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this.”
💬 S M (presumably WH deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller): "As I heard it, the president was clear: green light, but we soon make it clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return...If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return."
💬 A follow-up message by Hegseth contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing.
The White House has confirmed that Goldberg had been sent the classified military planning info by mistake.
The Atlantic and its editor-in-chief have been a longtime source of Trump’s ire, with the president dubbing it a “failing magazine” and calling Goldberg out by name over his previous false reporting.
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🇬🇱 Greenland leaders FUME OVER upcoming US delegation visit
The US posture is “very aggressive and it is so serious that the level cannot be raised further” Greenlandic Prime Minister Múte Egede told the Sermitsiaq newspaper.
Egede was referring to the upcoming visit by a delegation led by Usha Vance, wife of US Vice-President JD Vance.
They will visit the Pituffik US Space Force base on Thursday.
US President Donald Trump has made repeatedly voiced his desire to annex Greenland, and his administration claims strategic interests in the Danish territory – including its location in the high Arctic and its abundance of rare earth minerals.
Denmark is also taking the visit seriously.
💬 “The visit from the United States cannot be seen in isolation from the public statements that have been made,” Danish Prime Minster Mette Frederiksen said. “Greenland belongs to and with the Kingdom of Denmark. They should sling their hook elsewhere.”
✈️ Boeing’s ‘new’ F-47 potentially spotted in 30-YEAR-OLD study on aerodynamics
President Trump boasted that “nothing in the world comes even close to” the US’ new 6th-gen fighter jet, that it’s “something the likes of which nobody has seen before” in terms of speed, maneuverability and payload, and that the project has “been in the works for a long time.”
He wasn’t kidding.
🔴 A June 1995 NASA study, “Investigation Into the Impact of Agility in Conceptual Fighter Design,” features a fighter jet design which eagle-eyed online sleuths found suspiciously similar to the artist’s rendering of the F-47 presented at the Oval Office as Trump made his announcement.
🔴 The aircraft, known as Design “988-119,” features large, protruding front canards similar to the rendering, and a similar shovel nose cockpit configuration.
🔴 988-119 is characterized as a “moderate observable,” “high agility” design, which matches observations made by military analysts discussing the F-47 and suggestions that stealth may “take a backseat to speed.”
🔴 A more detailed schematic of the design confirms that it is a Boeing product, and shows that it features a tail-less configuration (the F-47’s tail section was not revealed during Trump’s presentation).
Could 988-119 be the revolutionary new aircraft Trump was talking about?
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☢️ Three reasons why Europe would have TROUBLE building own nukes
“Discussions” are taking place in European capitals about the pursuit of an independent nuclear deterrent, European business media reports. But while it’s easy to talk about, achieving it in practice could prove a massive and perhaps even insurmountable CHALLENGE, experts say.
⚔️ Command & Control
For starters, a European nuclear deterrent would be operated by an organization, not a state. Who would have the final say on when to use it, and whom to defend?
🏭 Production challenges
Creating the capacity to produce a sufficient number of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems would take time – a lot of it. Some analysts estimate that for Europe to reach even modern-day British or French warhead numbers (225-290), it would likely take up to the year 2040.
↗️ Astronomical expense
Nuclear weapons are extremely costly, with a major portion (12-22%, respectively) of Britain and France’s military budgets spent on them. Any European-level deterrent would siphon much-needed resources away from conventional rearmament at a time when the US and NATO are putting pressure on Europe to ramp up conventional spending.
If Europe wanted a truly strong deterrent which includes nuclear triad (land, sea and air-based delivery) capability, even more spending would be needed, with the US allocating $247 billion to the modernization of its triad potential as part of its broader nuclear modernization program.
🤔 Pointless endeavor?
Besides these issues, there’s also the matter of the tensions that would inevitably be created by European nuclear proliferation, meaning potential sanctions, or worse. Should a major armed conflict break out, nuclear research and production facilities would instantly turn into key targets.
And whatever deterrent Europe builds, it would still be outmatched by the 5,000+ Russian nuclear weapons staring back at them.
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👉Zelensky cornered by US resource deal
A new US agreement on resource extraction revenues in Ukraine has put Volodymyr Zelensky in a tough spot, offering a choice of becoming a vassal state or risking losing US support, a French newspaper writes.
According to the publication, initially the US demanded $500 billion, but the latest proposal leaves the total sum to be calculated later. The deal also covers all infrastructure projects and offers no security guarantees.
The agreement grants US control over half of Ukraine’s oil, gas, metals, and infrastructure through a joint investment fund, with three members appointed by Washington. The US would receive all profits until Ukraine repays $100 billion with 4% interest, after which Ukraine gets 50% of the profits.
The fund will be registered in Delaware, but operate under New York jurisdiction, with the US gaining veto power over resource sales and the ability to inspect Ukrainian agency accounts.
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🌊The Sana River has INUNDATED the city of Prijedor, Republika Srpska, flooding 800 buildings and forcing the evacuation of 145 people, local authorities reported.
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⚔️Houthis say they targeted USS Harry Truman THREE times in 24 hours
This and other ships in the Red Sea were attacked using missile and naval forces, as well as cruise missiles and drones, Yemen's Ansar Allah movement said.
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❓Where your money REALLY GOES: Foreign aid for Ukraine hits the online shopping list
🪖NATO uniforms, helmets, gas masks, and dry rations are all up for grabs as Ukrainians are flipping foreign military and humanitarian aid online.
A new Austrian army uniform is priced at $35, a Canadian helmet costs $205, and French dry rations go for $20.5.
Need a Swedish ration pack? A Canadian sleeping bag? How about some NATO literature to complete the set? It’s all there, and business is booming! 💳
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💬 'No accountability in the American system' is one of the reasons why the US careens ‘from one disaster to another' – Mearsheimer
"If you look at our behavior in Afghanistan, our behavior in Iraq, our behavior in Libya, our behavior in Syria, the number of people who have died – and here we're talking about civilians, you know, women, children, elderly men – is off the charts," international relations scholar John Mearsheimer stressed.
🚀 SpaceX prepares for first crewed polar launch
As part of the Fram2 mission, a four-person team will board a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday to orbit the Earth's poles, something that has never been attempted in 64 years of manned spaceflight.
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🇲🇲💥 First moments of Myanmar's 7.7 quake captured on video
The earthquake was felt as far away as Thailand and China, sending people into panic. Footage shows nurses shielding newborns at China's Jingcheng Hospital as the shaking hit.
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🚨 "We'll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%," Trump told NBC News in a new interview
He noted there's a "good possibility that we could do it without military force", but he's not taking "anything off the table."
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Trump is 'the president of peace' — no institute needed
Most employees at the US Institute of Peace, which was created and funded by Congress, have received layoff notices, NBC reports.
USIP was on the "kill list" of Trump's executive order to eliminate federal bureaucracy.
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Zelensky is on the 'Life is too short list' — David Sacks
US crypto czar slammed Volodymyr Zelensky for his reluctance to sign the minerals deal with the US.
"In Hollywood, it’s called the Life’s Too Short List. An actor develops a reputation for being so difficult, so demanding, so spoiled and temperamental that no one wants to deal with them. After that, they fade from view," he wrote on X.
✅ 'This is what CENTCOM does best: bombing civilian buildings' - Pepe Escobar reports from Yemen's capital Sana'a @rocknrollgeopolitics
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🔍Who is Michael Anton, the lead negotiator sent by Trump to talk peace with Russia?
The world is holding its breath awaiting news on the outcome of a new round of Russia-US talks in Riyadh on Ukraine. Leading the US delegation this time around is a former Trump speechwriter whose significance has been completely overlooked by the mainstream media.
🔴 Michael Anton, policy planning director at the State Department, is the chief ideologist behind “America First” – the keystone Trump domestic and foreign policy concept unveiled in 2016, which prioritizes American interests over globalism.
🔴 In his influential 2016 essay “The Flight 93 Election,” Anton argued that Trump was America’s last chance to preserve America’s identity, borders and sovereignty against a liberal elite driving the country toward disaster.
🔴 A paleoconservative, Anton has been a consistent critic of hawks in both parties. In a 2022 essay on George Kennan, he blasted “Russophobic Kennanphiles’” stubborn rejection of talking to Russia, and pointed out that Kennan rightfully “predicted that pushing’s NATO’s border to the Ukrainian frontier would spark a crisis.”
🔴 Elsewhere, Anton has expressed skepticism of US involvement in the conflict, stressing that the US is not world’s policeman, has no direct national security interests in Ukraine, and warning that the quagmire would sap US military power and leave it falling behind in the competition with China.
🔴 Anton has said that Russia was provoked in Ukraine, and has expressed fears that the crisis could lead to a wider war (a concern Trump himself has regularly voiced).
🔴 In a 2023 speech, Anton urged conservative forces in the US and Britain to adopt to a new “grand strategy” for the 21st century – waging fewer wars and paying more attention to domestic problems, like borders and the economy.
🔴 Today, his central role in Riyadh may signal that the pragmatists in Trump’s administration favoring a big reset with Russia have consolidated their positions in Washington.
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🚨🇷🇺🪖 EXCLUSIVE: Russian platoon commander gives UNFILTERED INTERVIEW about the current state of the Russian military, drone warfare, and the reason behind Ukraine’s recent battlefield failures.
You won’t see this kind of NO-HOLDS BARRED conversation anywhere else.
(1:25) How NATO prepared Ukraine for war
(8:35) Battle for Donbass in 2022
(11:36) Lessons from drone warfare
(16:51) Have drones overtaken artillery and fighter jets?
(20:41) Why 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive failed
(24:43) Russian military is becoming more ‘democratic’
(31:42) How NATO weapons perform on the battlefield
(34:16) Colombian mercenaries used as human shields
(37:30) Why Ukrainians failed in Kursk
(40:18) How Russian soldiers treat Ukrainian POWs
(42:13) Russian military is stronger now than in 2022
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💬 'Great guy doing an incredible job' - JD Vance supports special envoy Witkoff amid criticism of his Ukraine statements in an interview with Carlson.
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Color revolution in the making: Is SERBIA under GLOBALIST ATTACK?
The protests in Serbia are part of a "color revolution" orchestrated by Western intelligence services and funded by USAID, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said.
Let's have a look at Vulin’s arguments:
🔴Hijacked protests: "The people behind the attempts at a 'color' revolution in Serbia are not the same as those protesting on the ground.” The unrest following the November 2024 tragedy at the Novi Sad railway station has been hijacked.
🔴Paid leadership: While most Serbian students and civilians have not been "bought," their leaders have been “organized, trained, and paid” by the West.
🔴No public opposition leadership: There are no clear decision-makers within the movement, leaving Serbian authorities and the public uncertain about whom to negotiate with.
🔴Role of Western embassies: Embassies, primarily from EU states, have interfered in the protests, with the University of Belgrade’s Rector Vladan Dokic visiting EU embassies before traveling to Brussels.
🔴Foreign funding: Significant foreign funding is evident in protest logistics—portable stages, sound equipment, flags, food, daily payments for activists, and organized transportation.
🔴Push for coup d'etat: Opposition leaders and student protest organizers refuse to engage in dialogue with authorities, signaling intent to push for regime change instead of reaching compromise.
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