ISRAEL - The Palestinian Authority (PA), like Hamas, seeks the utter demise of the State of Israel, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who asserted that the difference between the two groups is only a matter of methodology, as he vowed to never have the “hostile” PA control a post-Hamas Gaza. The Israeli premier compared the supposedly “moderate” Palestinian Authority (PA) to the US-designated terrorist organization Hamas, claiming both actively seek the destruction of the Jewish state, as reported by Hebrew media based on leaks from the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting Monday.

ARGENTINA - Argentina devalued the peso by 54%, overhauled its crawling peg and announced massive spending cuts to eliminate its primary fiscal deficit next year as the first steps in President Javier Milei’s shock-therapy program. The newly inaugurated administration weakened the official exchange rate to 800 pesos per dollar, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said in a televised address after the close of local markets on Tuesday. It was 366.5 per dollar before the address. The central bank will henceforth target a monthly devaluation of 2%.

USA - Our kids can’t really read very well. And it turns out that they aren’t very good at math either. But those running our system of education continue to tell us that they are doing a wonderful job. If they just had more funding, they insist, our test scores would go way up. Of course that is complete and utter nonsense. Our system of public eduction was a failure back when I was in school many years ago, and it is much worse now. At this point, only about one-third of all US students in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades are proficient in reading…

UK - Whether it's eating less meat or cycling instead of driving, humans can do many things to help prevent climate change. Unfortunately, breathing less isn't one of them. That might be a problem, as a new study claims the gases in air exhaled from human lungs is fueling global warming. Methane and nitrous oxide in the air we exhale makes up to 0.1 per cent of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions, scientists say. And that's not even accounting for the gas we release from burps and farts, or emissions that come from our skin without us noticing. The new study was led by Dr Nicholas Cowan, an atmospheric physicist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh.

UK - Parents should think very carefully before allowing children to use Facebook as it is no longer safe, the National Crime Agency (NCA) says. NCA bosses have sounded the alarm over Meta's platforms after it decided to automatically encrypt all Facebook and Messenger chats. The head of the NCA has likened this to 'consciously turning a blind eye to child abuse'. The NCA arrests about 800 suspected paedophiles and safeguards 1,200 children a month – largely as a result of information from Meta about abusers on its platforms.

ISRAEL - The State of Israel is fighting the Palestinian Hamas terror organization in Gaza, but that is just one front in an ongoing war against terror groups and their sponsors. In fact, Israel currently faces at least five enemies on five fronts.

USA - Most Americans think their country is in decline. In 2018, when the Pew Research Center asked Americans how they felt their country would perform in 2050, 54 percent of respondents agreed that the US economy would be weaker. An even larger number, 60 percent, agreed that the United States would be less important in the world. This should not be surprising; the political atmosphere has been pervaded for some time by a sense that the country is headed in the wrong direction. According to a long-running Gallup poll, the share of Americans who are “satisfied” with the way things are going has not crossed 50 percent in 20 years. It currently stands at 20 percent.

PANAMA - Shipping delays in the Panama Canal threaten £22million worth of fruit, vegetables, coffee, tea and meat from Peru bound for Britain this Christmas, experts said today. Britain relies heavily on imports from the South American country, according to a study of UK-bound ships using the canal by data and analytics firm Russell Group. Researchers claimed the products may be in short supply in shops this month. Most of the disruption will be related to fruit, with £18 million worth coming from Peru.

UK - A rise in fake news photos generated by AI is eroding public trust in online information, a charity has warned. Thousands of internet users are being duped into sharing bogus images, from Prince William and Harry embracing at the coronation to fake mugshots of Donald Trump. Full Fact said the 'influx' of phoney images often came in response to the increased demand for up-to-date information during major international events. Researchers at the fact checking charity said the intention was likely not to convince people the images were real but to 'reduce trust in information generally'. Chief executive Chris Morris warned the growing problem posed a huge threat to democracy, particularly with a General Election looming.

EUROPE - President of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, announces the launch of the EU's central bank digital currency (CBDC)—the digital euro—which will enable unelected technocrats at the ECB to program how, when, where, on what and by whom it can be spent, including the imposition of social credit, carbon allowance and vaccine passport systems. And despite the lie that "cash is here to stay", you can be absolutely certain that megalomaniacal technocrats such as Lagarde have every intention of gradually phasing out cash altogether, so eventually people will be forced to use CBDCs whether they like it or not.

GERMANY - Germany’s leftist coalition government struck a deal to avoid a budget crisis with massive cuts to its domestic green agenda projects, however, the government refused to reduce funding for the war in Ukraine. After months of wrangling between the three parties the decision was made to target the green agenda to fill the budget hole. The climate and transformation fund that directs taxpayer cash towards the so-called green transformation of the economy will be slashed by €12 billion for 2024. Federal subsidies for solar power projects will also be slashed. The government also scrapped €3 billion in traditional energy subsidies.

USA - One in five young Americans believe the Holocaust did not happen, a shock poll has found. The survey, by The Economist and YouGov., included 1,500 people ranging in age from 18 to over 65 years old who were asked a series of questions about the massacre of six million Jews. Approximately 20 percent of people aged 18 to 29 agreed with the statement 'the Holocaust is a myth' and even more believed the death toll has been exaggerated.

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has approved a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza. The UNGA vote came days after the United States vetoed a similar resolution in the UN Security Council, calling for a truce. Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN said ahead of the vote that Arab and Islamic ambassadors had been mobilizing support for the resolution. He said they expected it would get a significantly higher number of votes than their previous resolution at the end of October, which was the first UN reaction to the Gaza war. Hours before the vote, US President Joe Biden warned Israel that it was losing international support because of its "indiscriminate bombing" of Gaza.

RUSSIA - The 500-year-long dominance of the West is coming to an end, being replaced by “a new polycentric world,” Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Sunday in a video address to the Doha Forum. The minister expressed regret that certain “circumstances” prevented him from coming to the Qatari capital in person and hearing the discussions at the annual high-profile event. “But I assume that you were discussing the multipolar world, which is emerging after 500 years of domination of what we call the ‘collective West,’” Lavrov said. This hegemony of the US and its allies had been “based on a diverse history, including ruthless exploitation of peoples and territories of other countries,” he said.

USA - Breaking reports Monday from the Washington Post and Fox News have indicated that a large-scale infiltration of American infrastructure and about two dozen “critical US Services” is underway, and has been for the past year. Oil and gas pipelines, electrical grids, and local utilities have been targeted. “It is very clear that Chinese attempts to compromise critical infrastructure are in part to pre-position themselves to be able to disrupt or destroy that critical infrastructure in the event of a conflict, to either prevent the United States from being able to project power into Asia or to cause societal chaos inside the United States — to affect our decision-making around a crisis,” Brandon Wales, executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said according to WaPo.