UK - Britain has an astonishing 470 DELEGATES at climate change summit that's a 5,000-mile round-trip flight. Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed the UK sent an incredible 470 delegates to the UN climate change summit in Azerbaijan. Britain's huge delegation to the COP29 talks has left a massive carbon footprint – despite Labour's zealous drive towards Net Zero – and cost taxpayers millions. The staggering environmental and financial cost comes despite the summit being deemed 'no longer fit for purpose', with leaders of some of the biggest polluting countries, including US President Joe Biden and China's President Xi, shunning talks.

CHINA - Joe Biden makes first visit to South America as president, with his presence at the Apec summit feeling very much like an afterthought. Joe Biden appeared on the periphery of a “family photo” of world leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (Apec) dominated by the rise of China. Xi Jinping stood centre stage in the picture with Dina Boluarte, leader of the host nation Peru, which had rolled out the red carpet for the Chinese president. During his visit, the Chinese leader made the most of his country’s century-old deep cultural ties to Peru, which has a large Chinese community, as well as inaugurating a new £2.6 billion mega-port just north of Lima, built and to be operated by Chinese state-owned company Cosco. China is seeking Latin America’s metal ores, soybeans, and other commodities, but US officials worry they may also be looking for new US-adjacent military and intelligence outposts.

PHILIPPINES - Super Typhoon Man-yi has slammed into the Philippines, with the national weather forecaster warning of a “potentially catastrophic and life-threatening” impact as huge waves pounded the archipelago’s coastline. More than 650,000 people fled their homes before Man-yi, which is the sixth major storm to batter the disaster-weary country in the past month, made landfall. Man-yi brought maximum wind speeds of 195 kilometres (121 miles) an hour as it impacted the sparsely populated island province of Catanduanes as a super typhoon, the weather service said, with gusts reaching 325 kilometres an hour. Waves up to 14 metres (46 feet) high pummelled the shore of Catanduanes, while Manila and other vulnerable coastal regions were at risk from storm surges reaching up to more than three metres over the next 48 hours, the forecaster said.

ISRAEL - Israel has revealed it is finally seeing some progress in Lebanon ceasefire talks, adding that Russia could help by stopping Hezbollah re-arming via Syria. After reports in the United States suggested Jerusalem may hand a peace deal to incoming President Donald Trump as a “gift”, diplomatic efforts are being stepped up. Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terror group in Lebanon, said it had not received any firm new truce proposals from Israel. But badly hit by Israel's ongoing offensive, the terror group said political contacts were under way involving its backers in Tehran, Washington and Moscow. Mr Saar, addressing a Jerusalem press conference, said Israel was now working with the United States on a ceasefire. Israel wants Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River - some 20 miles (30 km) from the border - and to be unable to rearm, he said.

EUROPE - The European Union may redirect tens of billions of euros earmarked for supporting its poorer member states to defense, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing EU officials. The potential policy shift follows the election of Donald Trump as the next US president and calls for NATO members in the EU to boost their own defense spending as the Ukraine conflict continues. The money would come from the so-called Cohesion Fund, which is aimed at reducing economic inequality between EU countries. The fund provides support to member states with a gross national income per capita below 90% of the bloc’s average, namely Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Only around 5% of some €392 billion ($416.5 billion) allocated for the fund in the bloc’s 2021-2027 budget has been spent to date, according to the FT.

UK - Britain is preparing to import more electricity from the European Union's power grids amid concerns over 'anticyclonic gloom' hitting wind farms in recent weeks. The new underwater connections will sit alongside other interconnectors giving the UK access to nuclear power from France and hydroelectric stations in Norway. It comes amid a long recent spell of gloomy weather for the UK with little wind, rain or sunshine, which has seen renewable power generation fall significantly. The amount of wind and solar energy generated has plunged in the past two weeks due to high pressure weather systems in a phenomenon called 'anticyclonic gloom' or 'Dunkelflaute' in German, which roughly translates as 'darkness' and 'weak wind'.

GERMANY - Olaf Scholz, the most unpopular German Chancellor in recorded history, has lost the battle to extend his ailing minority government for another few months. It is now expected that a confidence vote will take place in the Bundestag on December 16, following the collapse of the three-party ‘traffic light’ coalition last week. But it will take months for the election to take place and for a coalition to take shape, leaving Germany adrift in a rapidly changing world. The press is purposefully steering clear of the chances of the rising rightwing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which is now polling in second place nationally.

SWITZERLAND - Last year, Switzerland imprisoned 9,297 people, with 67 percent of them foreigners, according to the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. The number of foreigners in the prison population has tripled since the 1980s. Men still account for the vast majority of offenders, accounting for 90.6 percent of all prisoners, while 9.4 percent of all prisoners are women. In 2020, the greatest share of foreigners in Swiss prisons were Algerians. In second place were Romanians. In Germany, over half of the prison population is made up of foreigners, and they are costing German taxpayers nearly €2 billion per year.

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.