🚨 Ceasefire – January 15 2025

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Lead: Ceasefire Reached?

Israel and Hamas have agreed “in principle” to terms of a ceasefire. According to CBS News, “a draft deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and hostage release has been agreed to in principle and, if all goes well, will be finalized by Israel and Hamas this week.”

The deal would call for Israel to withdraw from Gaza, which Israel has said repeatedly it does not want to do. As CBS News points out, the “implementation and enforcement would be left to the Trump administration. Privately, U.S. officials acknowledge this plan for governance is aspirational.” Meaning, Israel could say that they will withdraw but not actually do it. They have reportedly not held up their ceasefire deal in Lebanon.

Then again, it could be the very idea of President Trump that forces Israel to comply. As Gaza reporter Muhammad Shehada put it: “the deal Netanyahu is about to accept now is the SAME deal Biden offered 8 MONTHS ago in May (& Hamas accepted on July 2). The only thing that changed is that Biden never pressured Netanyahu to accept. Trump now did & it worked instantly!”

Glenn Greenwald points out that the media is saying this without saying this with headlines like this.

 Trump Tax Plan 

President-elect Trump says that he is going to focus on revenue from abroad instead of taxing U.S. citizens! This is bigly!

He calls it the External Revenue Service, as opposed to the Internal Revenue Service. Instead of, as he puts it, relying “on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS),” he wants to build the U.S. economy by collecting “our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources. We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share. January 20, 2025, will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

The average American pays the federal and state government the equivalent of the money they make between January and May of every year. That’s a depressing but true statistic. Even the IRS admits it on their own website! They call it Tax Freedom Day. It is the number of days an American has to work to earn enough to pay federal, state and local taxes. In most states, Americans have to work through mid-April but in high-tax states like New York, they have to work until mid-May just to earn enough to keep for themselves.

What if that were not the case? What if we could pay less because our government collects money by doing business with the world!? Who amongst us could possibly be against that!?

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Afghanistan Bombshell

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A new report shows that the U.S. has abandoned many Afghan citizens in third countries since it’s “chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.” These are people that the U.S. helped leave Afghanistan when the Taliban took over but then proceeded to drop them off in third countries, “some at prison-like facilities and many with no clarity about their prospects for resettlement.”

This comes from a report called “Challenging U.S. Expansion of Detention Practices.” The report claims that “at least 36 countries [are] arbitrarily [holding] tens of thousands of evacuated Afghans.” It says that “contrary to its public assertions, the Biden administration retains significant control over these sites and has allowed the inhumane conditions to persist and deteriorate.”

Does President Biden know this? On Monday, he bragged about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

“Today, I can also report to the American people [as] the first president in decades who’s not leaving a war in Afghanistan to his successor,” he said.

How can the U.S. court allies abroad if it allows them to language in prisons with “abysmal conditions”? The records describe “family separations, deteriorating mental health conditions, inadequate facilities and fears of forcible repatriation.”

News By The Numbers

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Four. That is how many times Tren de Aragua gang-member Niefred Serpa Acosta was arrested and released before he was arrested again for kidnapping and torturing a Colorado couple in December.

124%. That is how much rents in some Los Angeles neighborhoods have gone up as fire victims look for temporary places to stay.

5%. That is how much of its workforce Meta will lay off. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a company memo that 2025 would be “an intense year” and that the plan was to be “exiting approximately 5% of our lowest performers.”

What’s Trending?

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Daredevil is trending because Marvel and Disney released this trailer for the upcoming series.

Chicken broth is trending because Walmart recalled its own brand of chicken broth in 242 locations.

National Bagel Day is trending because that is today.

Red Dye Ban

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The Food and Drug Administration has banned Red No. 3, a food dye that is commonly used in candy, sports drinks, gum and cookies. It has been banned in cosmetics and topical drugs for 35 years but for whatever reason, it has been allowed to be in our foods.

The ban won’t take effect until 2027 so food makers have some time to reformulate their products. The FDA says that it is doing this because “two studies… showed cancer in laboratory male rats exposed to high levels of FD&C Red No. 3 due to a rat specific hormonal mechanism.” But, they say, that “the way that FD&C Red No. 3 causes cancer in male rats does not occur in humans.” Still, the Delaney Clause prohibits the FDA from authorizing any food or color additive that has been found to cause cancer in either humans or animals so they are using this as a reasoning to ban the product.

It is interesting timing. This dye has long been known to be harmful but the FDA has decided to do it in advance of the next Trump administration and the MAHA movement which has demanded a safer food supply. Is this a harbinger of what is to come and a willingness by the FDA to do its job now?

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