🇺🇸 Samsung weighs relocating dryer production to US in response to Trump tariffs

South Korea's Samsung Electronics and at least one other appliance maker are considering moving some operations from their plants in Mexico to their U.S. factories.

The review is in response to President Donald Trump's consideration of imposing 25% duties on imports from Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1, a South Korean newspaper reported on Tuesday.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/samsung-weighs-relocating-dryer-production-us-response-trump-tariffs.amp

🇺🇸🇲🇽 “Thousands” of active duty troops have been ordered to the U.S. / Mexican border, joining the 2,200 active troops and some 4,500 national guardsmen already there. “Even more” are expected to follow in coming weeks. The units given the orders are not yet known.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Ukraine Is Burning Through 155mm M777 Howitzer Barrels So Fast The U.S. Army Can’t Keep Up

The U.S. Army is moving to establish a second production source for barrels for 155mm M777 towed howitzers in response to what it calls “unprecedented demand” from Ukraine. Only one U.S. government-owned and operated arsenal makes the barrels and that facility cannot currently meet a requirement to churn out more than 30 new ones each month.

Discussion of the need for more barrels for M777 howitzers was included in a recently released Pentagon budget document dated Dec. 17, 2024, which details several so-called reprogramming actions related to U.S. military assistance to Ukraine. The M777’s barrel, or “cannon,” technically has its own separate designation, M776. The U.S. military is required by law to get approval from Congress to reallocate funding from one part of its budget to another.

https://www.twz.com/land/ukraine-is-burning-through-155mm-m777-howitzer-barrels-so-fast-the-u-s-army-cant-keep-up

🇺🇸 Following President Trump’s executive orders, the Coast Guard will be surging aircraft, cutters, and specialized forces to the SE border around Florida

This is to quell mass illegal immigration from Haiti and Cuba

President Trump has made HUGE power moves in the past 24 hours to secure not just the U.S./Mexico border, but ALL of our borders.

Other areas receiving additional Coast Guard resources are the coasts of Alaska, Hawaii, Gulf of America, Guam, and more.

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Western North Carolina residents who have been sitting in FEMA hotels for months, are now being moved rapidly into long-term, fully furnished apartments.

📎 Matt van Swol

🇺🇸 U.S. border agents told to summarily deport migrants without granting asylum hearings under Trump edict

Washington — Citing President Trump's extraordinary move to close the American asylum system, U.S. border agents have been instructed to summarily deport migrants crossing into the country illegally without allowing them to request legal protection, according to internal government documents and agency officials.

Just hours after being sworn in, Mr. Trump invoked sweeping presidential authorities to bar the entry of migrants deemed to be participating in an "invasion" of the U.S., as well as those who may pose a public health or national security risk. He cited a provision of immigration law known as 212(f) that allows presidents to suspend the entry of foreigners whose entry is deemed to be "detrimental" to the U.S.

In that same proclamation, Mr. Trump cited his constitutional powers over foreign affairs to empower U.S. immigration officials to "repel, repatriate, or remove any alien engaged in the invasion across the southern border of the United States."

Internal government documents indicate that, as of Tuesday night, the president's "full" 212(f) authority was being implemented across Texas' border with Mexico, making nearly all migrants who arrive there subject to quick expulsion. The documents cite the public health-related 212(f) authority that applies to "aliens that traveled through a country with a communicable disease."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-deportations-migrants-border-asylum-hearings/

🇺🇸🇲🇽 Mexican authorities have begun constructing giant tent shelters in the city of Ciudad Juarez to prepare for a possible influx of Mexicans deported under U.S. President Donald Trump's promised mass deportations — Reuters

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The refugee program has been effectively shuttereed, per CNN, after Trump’s executive orderr.

"Refugees who were slated to travel to the United States after a years-long and often cumbersome process have had their flights canceled," CNN reports

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🇺🇸 TRUMP: John Bolton and Dick Cheney convinced George Bush to blow up the Middle East. We got nothing out of it except a lot of death.

REPORTER: "Why did you remove John Bolton's security clearance, sir?"

TRUMP: "Because I think that was enough time. You take a job. You want to do a job. We're not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives. Why should we?

I thought he was a very dumb person, but I used him well because every time people saw me come into a meeting with John Bolton standing behind me, they thought that he'd attack them because he was a warmonger.

He's the one that got us involved, along with Cheney and a couple of others, convinced Bush, which was a terrible decision, to blow up the Middle East. We blew up the Middle East, and we left.

We got nothing out of it except a lot of death. We killed a lot of people, and John Bolton was one of those guys, a stupid guy."

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According to TN, Javier Milei's government would be analyzing Argentina's exit from the WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement

The analysis also includes the WTO, the United Nations and Mercosur in case they act as an obstacle to signing a free trade agreement with the United States.

📎 : Source

🇺🇸 "Time to build."

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🇿🇦❌🇿🇦❗️ — 📰 Visegrad24: South African Leftist President Ramaphosa signed the Expropriation Bill into law.

➡️ The Bill allows for the expropriation of land with no compensation in South Africa if it’s deemed to be in the interest of the public or for public purpose.

We must stand with South Africa’s farmers who are now at risk of losing everything.

🔗 Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24)

🇿🇦❌🇿🇦 — 📰 Visegrad24 on Twitter/X:

With the expropriation with no compensation law, South Africa is entering full communist territory.

🔗 Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24)

🇪🇹❌🇪🇹 — Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) military force announced it will not demobilize, despite the agreement to do so.

🪖 Debretsion Gebremichael controlled wing of TPLF have essentially started a soft coup against federal government backed administration of Getachew Reda.

➡️ TPLF has over 250,000 fully armed units stationed in Shire, Adwa, and Axum.

➡️ This situation reflects ongoing issues since the TPLF's 14th Congress, where leadership rifts have led to accusations of coup attempts and efforts to destabilize the region.

🔥 Between 2020 and 2022, Ethiopia experienced the Tigray War, a conflict primarily between the Ethiopian federal government and allied forces, including Eritrea, against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). The war began in November 2020 after the TPLF attacked a federal military camp, leading to widespread fighting across Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions.

⚰️ The conflict resulted in significant casualties, with estimates ranging from 162,000 to 600,000 deaths, massive displacement, and reports of war crimes and ethnic cleansing against the Amhara and Tigrayan populations by the warring factions.

🕊 A ceasefire was agreed upon in November 2022, but the region remained in a state of humanitarian crisis.

🔗 Amhara News Service (@Amhara_News)