Theo Von aka Zoomer Joe Rogan says on his podcast that he believes TikTok is being banned in the US because the government doesn't want people seeing the truth about the genocide in Gaza and that TikTok is one of the only places where you can see the truth about what's happening:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Global_News_Hub/comments/1hrwtna/theo_von_on_tiktok_ban_they_dont_want_you_to_see/

This dude interviewed Trump in August, btw.

it's not yoonover yet

A day of high drama has drawn to an end in South Korea, with investigators suspending an attempt to arrest ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol after a six-hour standoff with the security team outside his home.

"We've determined that the arrest is impossible," said the Corruption Investigation Office (CIO), which has been investigating Yoon's short-lived martial law declaration.

"Next steps will be decided after review," the CIO said, adding that Yoon's "refusal of the legal process" is "deeply regrettable".

Yoon's supporters, who have been camped out in front of the presidential residence for days, cheered in song and dance as the suspension was announced. "We won," they chanted.

Investigators have until 6 January to arrest Yoon, before the warrant expires. However they can apply for a new warrant and try to detain him again.

US considers rule that could restrict or ban drones with Chinese tech

US President Joe Biden’s administration is considering proposing a rule to cut China out of the drone supply chain, the latest move in the escalating trade and tech decoupling between the world’s two largest economies.

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The move came hours after Beijing announced export bans on 28 American companies, including leading manufacturers of defence systems like Raytheon, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to an export control list to “safeguard national security and interests”.

“Acute threats” from China and Russia may “offer our adversaries the ability to remotely access and manipulate these devices, exposing sensitive US data”, the Commerce Department said in a statement.

The ROK is entering a period of time known as “The cool zone”

Also fucking LOL at this

New idea for the SK Police, how about you let the Lee Jae-myung arrest Yoon Suk Yeol? Lee will just go there and beat up all those people, and then vote for Yoon to die in Prison.

The Trump Tower Tesla bomber was a Slava Ukraini guy, who "served" (as a trainer?) in Ukraine and Georgia, and his wife was a libbed-up cheeto-hater.

Signs are pointing to Trump derangement syndrome?

Google Earth has updated satellite view upto November 2023 now for Gaza.

Coords: 31.5588, 34.5211

PayPal is getting sued by a bunch of content creators for their Honey extension, which literally works by stealing affiliate referrals. But PayPal is probably big enough to never see real consequences from this, so who knows what will happen.

Same company that is complicit in genocide btw.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2w51gjxpro Drunken Zambian policeman freed 13 suspects to celebrate New Year

lol

Apparently its illegal to have fun in worst Korea. What’s the point of being president if you can’t have a little martial law as a treat? What happened to guys being dudes?

Not fort Bragg man, don’t make me go all 👀

https://www.wbtv.com/2025/01/02/new-orleans-terror-suspect-was-stationed-north-carolina-army-base-report-says/

For context: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fort-bragg-murders-1153405/

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/01/10/more-dozen-special-operations-soldiers-center-of-drug-trafficking-probe.html

New information from The Washington Post claims that the 37-year-old soldier shot himself in the head before the Tesla cybertruck exploded in front of the Trump International hotel in Las Vegas. Authorities have identified the victim of the Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas: Matthew Livelsberger, an active-duty soldier in the elite Green Berets.

He worked at Fort Bragg, California and for the last 3 months had been working as a “Remote and Autonomous Systems Manager” for the US Army.

The FBI is investigating the motives of Matthew, who died inside Tesla's Cybertruck. A curious connection has been pointed out by them: Matthew and Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar (ex-military who ran over dozens in New Orleans) worked at Fort Bragg, but at different times, officials say.

A very curious coincidence… Yesterday, a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas blew up, killing the driver and wounding seven bystanders. Now investigators identified the driver as a 37-year-old Green Beret (specifically, an “intelligence and operations specialist”), that had been pictured in social media wearing a shirt with the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi slogan “Slava Ukraini” on it: https://www.rt.com/news/610363-vegas-cybertruck-suspect-ukraine/

Israeli airstrikes/commando operations in Syria are continuing, with Israel reportedly having targeted the military and production facilities at Al-Safira, southeast of Aleppo. This a large facility, with a factory complex, missile production facilities, Scud missile launch sites, a biological laboratory, and multiple ammunition depots. Large explosions were reported and initially confused for an earthquake. Secondary explosions could still be ongoing if one of the ammunition depots took a direct hit. It was protected by an S-75 (NATO name: SA-2) Surface to Air Missile (SAM) battery, with a maximum range of 48km, which was either destroyed by Israeli strikes or inoperable. This system is best known for shooting down Gary Power's U2 reconnaissance/spy aircraft, as well as many US aircraft over Vietnam during the Vietnam war.

Video source on Twitter showing the explosions

Xcancel mirror

Satellite imagery of the base itself, sourced from Google Maps

I suspect Israeli strikes have restarted, with a strike on Damascus reported earlier today, because there has been an increase in reports of people looting ex Syrian Arab Army facilities over the past few days. It seems that the looters are looking for scrap metal from abandoned and destroyed army equipment, and not to capture and use/sell the weapons, at least for now. Israel clearly does not trust HTS to have any control over the situation, and now has decided to continue their de-militirisation campaign in Syria. And HTS as usual will not comment on it.