05 Trump becomes the next US president "Who would have guessed lying about Biden's cognitive health for 2 yrs, refusing to do an open convention for a new nominee, never mentioning public healthcare & embracing fracking, the Cheneys & a year long slaughter of children in Gaza wouldn't be a winning strategy?" - Adam McKay, 08 35 years ago the Berlin wall came down Checkpoint Charlie moments after the Berlkin wall fell in 1989 and today. 11 Climategate 29, IPCC conference used to make gas and oil deals for nation states. Cop29 UN Climate betrayel when conference official filmed promoting oil deals at COP29 climate conference The BBC filmed the head of the IPCC COP029 fonference in Baku trying to drum uo business by explaining all the clean (sic) oild and gas project that need investment. World is shocked and horrified. Would people need so much gas and oil if it were warmer? What happened to "no snow byu 2000" ? 14 The Onion wins auction to take control of Alex Jones’s Infowars The sale ends Jones’s 25-year run controlling the conspiracy theorist website that peddled claims the Sandy Hook school shooting was a “hoax.” - Washpo 15 "Trump’s attempts to block (military) aid to Ukraine led to his impeachment " - WP : "Did Russian Disinformation Change the U.S. Election Outcome?" - thecyberexpress Vail "Did Russian Disinformation Change the U.S. Election Outcome?" - thecyberexpress (dot) com thecyberexpress is ain interesting domain. This was the first "news" sire to assert "it was ze Russians". The domain went live in 2011 amd had an ad for the domain until just before the election cycle in 2024 (two years, give or take, the standard US presidential campaign start) and then it became a website - with no apparant focus - for the two years leading up to the election and then as if on queue, reported that Russia is the reason we can't have nice things, as ifr on queue "...Trump’s attempts to block aid to Ukraine led to his impeachment during his first term." Washington Post Trump nominates RFK Jr as health-sec; vaccine and food additive companies stock drops from 3% to 8% overnight. Germany and Russia begin talking peace. The usual "brief and frank exchange of views" was given by both sides, who agreed to chat again RSN. 16 Hollywood refugees heading for Canada

17 Biden has granted permission for Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes Israeli Airstrikes Pound Beirut; WaPo: Israel Planning to Offer Lebanon Ceasefire as “Gift” to Trump - Democracy Now President Biden has granted permission for Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes, but looming over Ukraine’s newfound latitude is the ascent of President-elect Trump. - New York Times 18 "Posts misleadingly blame third-party votes for Republican victory" - AFP Russia fires 120-missile barrage at Ukrainian energy sites - National Post IDF bombs Beirut for 6th consecutive day - ABC News 20 Russia suggests the US may wish to think twice. President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday signed a revised nuclear doctrine declaring that a conventional attack on Russia by any nation that is supported by a nuclear power will be considered a joint attack on his country. - Global News Hours later under the cover of darkness, a Ukrainian battery fired eight of the 3,700-pound Army Tactical Missile System rockets at a Russian missile storage site in Karachev, in western Russia’s Bryansk Oblast 60 miles from the border with Ukraine. It’s clear why the Ukrainians would target the 67th Main Missile and Artillery Directorate Arsenal in Bryansk. Spreading across at least 1.3 square miles, the arsenal is one of the Kremlin’s biggest ammunition storage sites. Ukrainian drones previously targeted the arsenal on Oct. 8. It’s less clear how much damage the GPS- and inertially-guided ATACMS inflicted. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed air-defense batteries shot down five of the incoming rockets and damaged a sixth, whose “fragments fell in the technical zone of a military facility, causing a fire.” - Financial Post 21 International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, former Israeli defence minister Judges find ‘reasonable ground’ PM, former defense minister criminally responsible for starvation, murder, ‘inhumane acts’. The decision marked the first time the ICC has ever issued arrest warrants against leaders of a democratic country. - Times of Israel Move comes after UN Special Committee finds Israeli warfare in Gaza 'consistent with characteristics of genocide.' The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday issued arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant for alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes in that country's deadly 13-month campaign in Gaza. The court also said it has reasonable grounds to believe Netanyahu and Gallant, who was fired as defence minister earlier this month, are criminally responsible in the "war crime of starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts," in Israel's bombardment of Gaza following the Hamas-led attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. Both bear "criminal responsibility as civilian superiors for the war crime… against the civilian population," it said. The attack by Hamas on southern Israel last year killed an estimated 1,200 people, and took another 253 people hostage. More than 100 of them have since been released. In the ensuing 13 months, Israel's retaliatory campaign in Gaza has killed nearly 44,000 people and displaced most of its more than 2.3 million population. - CBC news Destination Toronto previously estimated Taylor Swift's six-show stint would generate $282 million for Toronto's local economy, with $152 million coming in the form of direct spending. - CTV News 23 Volcano and Aurora in Iceland 24 Climate Conference implodes - again "Passengers duct-tape man who allegedly tried to open door during American Airlines flight to Texas" - NBC News. The climate finance deal agreed at Cop29 is a “travesty of justice” that should not have been adopted, some countries’ negotiators have said. The climate conference came to a dramatic close early on Sunday morning when negotiators struck an agreement to triple the flow of climate finance to poorer countries. Developing nations had called on rich countries to provide them with $1.3tn (£1.08tn) a year to help them decarbonise their economies and cope with the effects of the climate crisis. But the final deal sets a pledge of just $300bn annually, with $1.3tn only a target. For Raina, who is an adviser to India’s department of economic affairs, it was not only the goal itself that caused anger but also the process by which it was finalised. Raina said the UN’s framework convention on climate change, which convenes the annual Cop summits, was meant to make decisions by consensus. India had been planning to make a dissenting statement before the decision was adopted but was not given the opportunity to do so, she said. Rain said the $300bn pledge was “stage-managed”. “This document is little more than an optical illusion,” she said. In an interview with the Guardian shortly after her statement, Raina called the goal’s adoption “outrageous”. “This was completely a travesty of justice,” she said." - The Guardian