USA - Robert F Kennedy Jr indicated over the weekend that he would fire 600 employees at the National Institutes of Health, replacing them with a new cohort of workers as he seeks to dramatically reshape America's health agencies, ABC News reports. RFK Jr. knows where the problems are at NIH, and he’s ready to fire 600 of them. “We need to act fast, and we want to have those people in place on January 20, so that on January 21, 600 people are going to walk into offices at NIH and 600 people are going to leave,” Kennedy said. The Democrat-turned-Trump supporter knows how out of control the pharmaceutical industry is. They are corrupt bureaucrats.

USA - The truck, tested under real-world conditions, traveled 2,900 kilometers on a single fill. It was developed through a collaborative effort between Accelera by Cummins and four US government agencies. Accelera, a division of the US-based Cummins, has set a new Guinness World Record for the longest distance traveled by a hydrogen fuel cell electric (FCEV) heavy-duty truck without refueling. The record was achieved with the company’s H2Rescue truck, a Kenworth T370 prototype designed specifically for emergency response missions. The truck completed an impressive 1,806 miles (2,900 kilometers), roughly the distance from Berlin, Germany, to Porto, Portugal. During the journey, it consumed 168 kilograms of hydrogen from an initial 175-kilogram fill, producing zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. By comparison, a diesel-powered truck would have emitted an estimated 664 pounds (300 kilograms) of CO2 over the same distance.

USA - Two leaders of a major global mother’s breastfeeding support group, including one of the organization’s founders, have resigned amid the group’s decision to allow males to participate in meetings that have historically been open only to mothers. The international board of La Leche League recently directed all British affiliates to begin accommodating men who believe they are women. Tompson said the group was launched with the aim of “supporting biological women who want to give their babies the best start in life by breastfeeding them.” "Yet the group’s aim has shifted," she said, “to include men who, for whatever reason, want to have the experience of breastfeeding.” “This shift from following the norms of nature, which is the core of mothering through breastfeeding, to indulging the fantasies of adults, is destroying our organization,” Tompson wrote.

USA - MAGA is on a roll. The Establishment is having a collective meltdown. And those those who love America are loving it. From the first announcements, including Susie Wiles, the first ever female White House Chief of Staff - (oh the misogyny!) - to Tom Homan, President Trump’s bulldog of a Border Czar who has vowed to deport the millions of illegals Kamala Harris let into the country since 2021, this is not your regular gaggle of swamp creature bureaucrats. Then yesterday, on the one week anniversary of President Trump’s historic double-mandate victory, a new fusillade of 100% America First appointments were fired from Mar a Lago. The slew of nominations has left the Establishment and their complicit lapdog media reeling. When we were in the White House I called this “moving at the speed of Trump.”

USA - Protecting democracy was a catch phrase that Democrats have used for years to explain their hatred of now President-elect Donald Trump. He was, after all, they said, a “Hitler.” He would be a dictator. He would use the military against his political opponents, jailing them and worse. The only salvation for America’s “democracy” would be to keep Democrats, in this election Kamala Harris, in power, they said. Now they’ve flip-flopped, and are openly advocating for the downfall of democracy, according to new analyses.

USA - The owner of the Los Angeles Times has fired his entire editorial board as he seeks to return the paper to its journalistic roots. Posting on the X platform, the paper’s owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he was proud to have posted a letter opposing attacks on white women for voting for Donald Trump and that the paper would be undergoing some major changes moving forward: "I will work towards making our paper and media fair and balanced so that all voices are heard and we can respectfully exchange every American’s view from left to right to the center. Coming soon. A new Editorial Board. Trust in media is critical for a strong democracy."

USA - Mass deportations are coming. Which feels about right given we’re a democracy and nearly 60% of Americans want mass deportation of illegal immigrants. Who are, after all, breaking the law by trespassing on our republic. The current record-holder is Franklin D Roosevelt, who deported 2 million aliens, overwhelmingly Mexican. I mentioned in a recent video how FDR’s deportations included citizen children of illegal immigrants, so that is perfectly legal — they will pretend it’s not. The active deportations will start with criminals and will essentially be arrests. But the real magic happens in the background, the self-deportations. I mentioned in a recent video how up to 90% of FDR’s deportations actually self-deported to avoid forced deportation. Today, we’d be looking at 15 million self-deportations if the message is clear.

USA - In a bold move, the incoming US President is set to shake up the Oval Office decor, hinting at a significant shift in international relations and cultural values. Incoming US President Donald Trump is set to wage a war on woke… with a little help from Sir Winston Churchill. The first thing the new Commander-in-Chief will do after his inauguration on January 20, according to sources close to the transition, is rearrange the furniture in the Oval Office - replacing a bust of union leader César Chávez with one of Britain’s fabled wartime leader. But Trump, who romped to victory at the November 5 poll, will make redecorating the most famous office in the world a priority and ensure the bronze bust of the British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Britain’s Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945, is dusted off and becomes the centrepiece of his nerve centre.

UKRAINE - Ukraine could develop a rudimentary nuclear bomb within months if Donald Trump withdraws US military assistance, according to a briefing paper prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. The country would quickly be able to build a basic device from plutonium with a similar technology to the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945, the report states. “Creating a simple atomic bomb, as the United States did within the framework of the Manhattan Project, would not be a difficult task 80 years later,” the document reads. With no time to build and run the large facilities required to enrich uranium, wartime Ukraine would have to rely instead on using plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods taken from Ukraine’s nuclear reactors. Ukraine still controls nine operational reactors and has significant nuclear expertise despite having given up the world’s third largest nuclear arsenal in 1996. The report says: “The weight of reactor plutonium available to Ukraine can be estimated at seven tons…"

SPAIN - Heavy rain has caused widespread flooding in Malaga only two weeks after storms led to Spain’s worst natural disaster in decades. The southern port city remained on the highest weather alert on Wednesday night after flood waters closed off main roads and its high-speed rail link with Madrid. The Spanish state weather forecaster, AEMET, issued red alerts on Wednesday morning for the eastern Tarragona and southern Malaga provinces, saying it expected them to receive as much as 180 mm (7.1 inches) of rain within 12 hours that could cause rivers to overflow and generate flash floods. The new floods came as authorities confirmed a total of 223 people had died and 17 were still missing following flash flooding in the Valencia region two weeks ago.

EUROPE - President-Elect Donald Trump had made peace in Europe a key campaign pledge, but several NATO member states are dedicated to total Ukrainian victory and will discuss how to “thwart” him and keep Kyiv in the war even if Washington withdraws support. London, Paris, and Warsaw are to form the nucleus of a European effort to keep Ukraine’s defensive war against Russia going even if the Trump Presidency from January 2025 tries to bring an end to the Ukraine war. Exactly how he will achieve this campaign pledge has not been publicly articulated to date. However, a ‘land swap’ between Kyiv and Moscow or a Korean-style demilitarised zone has been discussed as options open to Trump, neither of which aligns with Ukraine’s official ambition of total victory.

GERMANY - Date agreed after the chancellor’s three-party coalition fell to pieces less than 24 hours after the US election last week, after talks over the economy broke down. A vote of confidence is set to take place in the Bundestag on December 16, paving the way for President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to dissolve parliament on December 27, German media reported separately. Steinmeier gave his preliminary backing for the timeline on Tuesday evening. Scholz was under pressure from all sides to bring a swift resolution to the country’s political crisis after his government collapsed as Europe struggled to muster a coherent response to the imminent presidency of Donald Trump in the United States.

USA - Donald Trump is considering establishing a “warrior board” to review senior officers in the US military and weed out “woke generals”, according to reports. A draft executive order under consideration by the president-elect’s transition team would set up a board of retired senior officials to audit top brass that do not meet standards of “leadership capability, strategic readiness, and commitment to military excellence”. The move is thought to be Mr Trump’s first step in tackling the issue of “woke generals”, which he complained about on the campaign trail, arguing that diversity and inclusion politics had become more important than war-fighting ability. The Republican platform policy document formally signed off at the party’s National Convention before the presidential election promised to “get woke Left-wing Democrats fired as soon as possible”.

UK - The Chancellor introduced a new tax burden for farmers who are already struggling with low prices for their goods and export headaches. Ports could be blockaded and food shortages could hit the high street this month as more than 10,000 angry farmers are expected to march on Westminster in protest at Rachel Reeves' Budget. The Chancellor could face French-style farming unrest with rural workers committed to direct action in retaliation for her introduction of a new tax burden on farms worth £1 million or more from April 2026.

UK - The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has resigned after the Church of England was rocked by a high-profile abuse scandal. Mr Welby has apologised after the independent Makin Review concluded that barrister John Smyth, who is thought to have been the most prolific abuser associated with the church, might have been brought to justice had the archbishop formally alerted authorities in 2013. Sir Keir Starmer would not comment directly on Mr Welby’s position, saying it was a “matter, in the end, for the church”, but he made clear that Smyth’s victims had been let down. He said: “Let me be clear: of what I know of the allegations, they are clearly horrific in relation to this particular case, both in their scale and their content. My thoughts, as they are in all of these issues, are with the victims here who have obviously been failed very, very badly.”