"Make Deal To Protect National Security": Trump Prepares Executive Order To Save TikTok

Update (1035ET):

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the divest-or-ban deadline and allow enough time for a deal in which the US will have 50% ownership via a joint venture with TikTok's Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance.

Trump's statement was posted on Truth Social on Sunday morning:

I'm asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark! I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law's prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security. The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.

Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations.

I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture. By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to say up. Without US approval, there is no Tik Tok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars - maybe trillions.

Therefore, my initial thought is a joint venture between the current owners and/or new owners whereby the US gets a 50% ownership in a joint venture set up between the US and whichever purchase we so choose.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/goes-dark-sorry-tiktok-isnt-available-right-now

To build empathy around Oct. 7, former USC Shoah Foundation head pushes new VR project

Holocaust expert Stephen Smith believes disseminating augmented first-person accounts from a freed hostage and Nova survivors will help combat denial on US college campuses

Five survivors of the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023, provide their harrowing testimony in a new virtual reality project helmed by Stephen Smith, who ran Steven Spielberg’s USC Shoah Foundation for over a decade.

Smith has partnered with Israel-is, a pro-Israel organization led by Nimrod Palmach — an October 7 hero who himself provides testimony for the project — to produce “Survived to Tell – Be The Witness.”

Each survivor recounts where they were and what they were doing at 6:28 a.m., the moment before the first rockets were fired, and continues with what happened to them during the attack and how they are now.

The survivors are Ofir Engel, a 19-year old Dutch-Israeli national who Hamas took hostage from Kibbutz Be’eri and held captive for 54 days; Palmach, 40, a civilian and IDF reservist who saved over 500 lives while combating Hamas terrorists; Remo Salman El-Hozayel, a 37-year-old Bedouin Israeli police officer who rescued over 200 Nova festival partygoers; Mazal Tazazo, a 35-year-old Ethiopian Israeli woman who witnessed the slaughter of her friends but survived by faking her death; and Millet Ben Haim, 28, who hid in the bushes for hours on the Nova premises until she was rescued.

The first virtual reality screening of the educational project for university campuses, featuring the stories of Engel and Palmach, was rolled out to US media on November 18 and 19 in Los Angeles. It hopes to reach 100,000 students on US campuses, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to combat October 7 deniers and antisemitism.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/to-build-empathy-around-oct-7-former-usc-shoah-foundation-head-pushes-new-vr-project/

US Pledges $117M in Aid to Lebanon Military

The US announced Saturday it would donate more than $117-million in security assistance for Lebanon’s armed forces, as the crisis-hit country seeks to implement a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

The State Department said in a statement that it had convened a “virtual donors meeting” on Thursday “with partners and allies to discuss critical security assistance needed for Lebanon to fully implement the cessation of hostilities.”

It said the new assistance to Beirut would support both the country’s armed forces and internal security forces “as they work to assert Lebanese sovereignty across the country.”

Lebanon has struggled for years to finance its public institutions including the army following a 2019 economic crisis.

It now also faces the challenge of rebuilding the country after more than two months of war between Hezbollah and Israel ended in November. The militant group had initiated fighting over the Gaza conflict.

New Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Saturday that Israel must withdraw from his country’s south by the January 26 deadline set to fully implement the ceasefire deal, which calls for Lebanese forces to deploy alongside UN peacekeepers there.

At the same time, Hezbollah is required to dismantle any remaining military infrastructure it has in the south and pull its forces back north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the border.

During a visit to Beirut on Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said that Paris would soon host an aid conference to help rebuild Lebanon after the Israel-Hezbollah war.

Earlier this week, Spain announced a 10-million-euro ($10.3-million) aid package for Lebanon’s army.

https://thedefensepost.com/2025/01/19/us-aid-lebanon-military/

Japan Sounds Alarm as Heart Failure Surges 4900% Among Covid-Vaxxed

Leading experts in Japan are sounding the alarm after uncovering evidence of a staggering surge in heart failure among citizens who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.”

Japan’s top scientists discovered that the risk of heart failure surges by up to 4,900% after a person receives a Covid mRNA injection.

The explosive discovery was made by a team of Japanese researchers from the Division of Pharmacodynamics at Keio University Faculty of Pharmacy and Yokohama General Hospital.

The research team, led by Professor Keisuke Takada, found that the risk of myocarditis is 20-50 times greater after receiving the shot.

They calculated reporting odds ratios (RORs) and 95 % confidence intervals (95 % CIs) for the association between the vaccines and myocarditis and pericarditis based on data from the Japanese government’s vaccine adverse event database.

Myocarditis and pericarditis are both forms of inflammation in the heart.

The conditions restrict the heart’s ability to pump blood around the body and can cause blood clots, strokes, cardiac arrest, and ultimately, sudden death.

Both myocarditis and pericarditis are known side effects of Covid mRNA shots.

The team analyzed the official data for April 2004 to December 2023.

https://slaynews.com/news/japan-sounds-alarm-heart-failure-surges-4900-among-covid-vaxxed/

Trump's border czar makes abrupt reversal after news of mass deportations in woke Dem cities

President-elect Donald Trump's handpicked 'border czar' Tom Homan has said the administration is reconsidering immigration raids on Chicago and New York after details were leaked in news reports.

Homan, former acting director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told the Washington Post that the new administration 'hasn't made a decision yet.'

'We're looking at this leak and will make a decision based on this leak,' Homan said. 'It's unfortunate because anyone leaking law enforcement operations puts officers at great risk.'

ICE had its sights on the Democratic-run city of Chicago and NYC as its first targets for mass deportations, with a raid expected on Tuesday morning less than 24 hours after Trump's second inauguration.

It was reported that the operation would be carried out for an entire week and spend between 100-200 officers to handle the job.

News of the raids leaked after Chicago City Council rejected an effort to allow police to cooperate with immigration enforcement.

'We intend to stand by and protect Chicago's immigrant communities against threats from ICE,' Mayor Brandon Johnson said after the vote.

Homan then appeared on Fox News where he was asked by host Jesse Watters if he was 'blowing your cover' by asking about the 'big raid' in Chicago.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14301193/donald-trump-immigration-border-tom-homan-deportations-chicago.html

A Ceasefire Won’t Stop Israel’s Genocidal Agenda

Steven Witkoff, Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East envoy, reportedly didn’t bother with pleasantries when he informed the Israelis that he would be arriving to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last Saturday. When told his visit coincided with Shabbat, meaning the prime minister would be unavailable until the evening, Witkoff made it clear that the Jewish holiday would not interfere with his schedule. Netanyahu, understanding the stakes, went to his office that afternoon to meet the envoy, who subsequently jetted off to Qatar to press further on a ceasefire deal for Gaza.

Little is known of the details of their conversation, but it is clear that Witkoff managed to move Netanyahu more in a single meeting than the entire Biden administration did in over 15 months. On Jan. 15, Israel and Hamas agreed to a multi-phase ceasefire deal that would see Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners and captives, along with an eventual full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.

It is too early to tell if this agreement will hold. Israel’s long tradition of violating ceasefires, coupled with the demands of Israeli ministers to continue the genocide, give us reason to be skeptical. But news of the truce has brought indescribable relief to millions in Gaza who have faced a campaign of annihilation for over a year.

If the ceasefire in Gaza does hold, it will be the material result of dynamics introduced by the incoming Trump administration — a reminder of how easily Washington can influence Israel’s actions if it actually wants to. President Joe Biden, blinded by his commitment to a mythic Zionism that exists solely in his imagination, was unwilling to see how the war was not only morally grotesque in its own right, but also detrimental to both American and Israeli interests in the region. In many ways, Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its campaign of regional destabilization also became the Biden administration’s own war.

Trump operates without the same ideological constraints, and he is far more concerned with what he can gain from a given relationship. Trump sought a ceasefire deal not only because it would serve as a massive PR coup — he can brag that he solved a problem Biden never could, and rightly so — but more importantly because it will allow his administration to get on with other priorities, such as brokering a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/ceasefire-wont-stop-israel-genocidal-agenda/5877587

Inside Zelensky’s Plan for Ukraine to Become ‘A Greater Israel’

With the U.S. proxy war in Ukraine now lost, a return to Volodymyr Zelensky’s vision for Ukraine may explain what might come next.

Should the Russians end the war with possession only of the regions populated by Russians, as Colonel Douglas Macgregor has suggested, then what future can be foreseen for any postwar Ukraine?

One answer is provided by secular Jewish President Zelensky’s plan to make a “Big Israel” of Orthodox/Catholic Ukraine. Since day one of his presidency, he has referred to the U.S.-sponsored state as a template for the Ukraine of tomorrow.

On becoming president in 2019, Zelensky said in his inaugural address:

We must become the Israelis – (following their example) in the defense of their native land.

What would this mean for Ukrainians, for global security, and for the American people?

Zelensky Announces His Big Israel Vision for Ukraine

In September 2022, Alexander Rubinstein reported that Zelensky had met with NATO and announced his plan for Ukraine in April that year – weeks after the Russian invasion:

Just 40 days after Russia’s military campaign began inside Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters that in the future, his country would be like “a big Israel.” The following day, one of Israel’s top promoters in the Democratic Party published an op-ed in NATO’s official think tank exploring how that could be executed.

Speaking to reporters on April 5, 2022, Zelensky said, “We will definitely become a ‘big Israel’ with its own face.”

Rubinstein, writing for The GrayZone, said Zelensky then explained his “disturbing prophecy,” detailing what a “big Israel” would actually look like:

We will not be surprised that we will have representatives of the Armed Forces or the National Guard in all institutions, supermarkets, cinemas – there will be people with weapons.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/inside-zelenskys-plan-for-ukraine-to-become-big-israel/5877592

Senator Dave McCormick on Fox News Sunday Says, “Hamas Has to Be Eradicated”

Republican Senator Dave McCormick was on “Fox News Sunday” with host Shannon Bream to discuss numerous topics, including Hamas, the future of TikTok, and national security.

Senator McCormick shared his optimism for the future of the US since President Trump is ready to take office.

“You can just feel it in Washington, we talked about this, this sense of enthusiasm and optimism. That we are entering a new phase of security and prosperity. And so, I am excited to be here and excited to be a part of it,” McCormick said.

McCormick also talked about Hamas and emphasized the need to permanently get rid of them.

“We would not be in this position had President Trump not assumed the Presidency because that changed the negotiating dynamic,” McCormick said.

“The ceasefire won’t be sustained unless all the hostages come home,” McCormick said.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/senator-dave-mccormick-fox-news-sunday-says-hamas/

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