🚢 🌍 🛢 "The Red Sea Crisis is coming at a really nice time given the breakdown of relations between Russia and Europe. Petroleum flows through the Suez Canal are more than twice what they were before the Russo-Ukrainian war began."

📎 Big Serge

THE COLORADO SUPREME COURT REMOVED FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FROM THE STATE’S 2024 BALLOT, RULING THAT HE ISN’T AN ELIGIBLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE BECAUSE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT’S “INSURRECTIONIST BAN.”.-CNN 🇺🇸 ...

NOW - Trump: "Joe Biden is a threat to democracy."

@disclosetv

⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇾🇪 The Washington Examiner reports that the United States and the United Kingdom have moved sensitive air and naval assets near Yemen. These movements indicate preparation for possible strikes against Houthi forces in that country.

🔶️ The Washington Examiner is not disclosing the identity of the military forces now positioned closer to Yemen, but they include both strike and supporting platforms the deployment of which has not publicly been disclosed

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-force-movements-suggest-us-and-uk-strikes-against-houthis-increasingly-likely

📎 Faytuks

🇵🇦Drought-hit Panama Canal to increase shipping slots to 24

The Panama Canal on Friday said it will increase the number of booking slots available in its Panamax and Neopanamax locks, after a severe drought caused one of the world's main maritime trade routes to reduce ship crossings.

From mid-January, the canal authority said in an advisory, it will have 24 transit slots per day, compared to the 18 it had planned in a prior announcement. The additional slots will cover the regulars, supers and neopanamax vessel categories.

The authority said the changes were based on the current and expected levels of the artificial Gatun Lake, which provides the millions of liters (gallons) necessary to operate the waterway.

Slots are prioritized according to highest bid in auction processes, full containers, market and customer rankings.

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#Panama

☠️ Blood Meridian

🇲🇾 ❌️ 🇮🇱 Malaysia has banned Israeli ships from docking in their ports and passing through their waters.

🔶️ "This sanction is a response to Israel’s actions that disregard the basic humanitarian principles and violate international law through the ongoing massacre and continuous cruelty against the Palestinian people.”

✒️ Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim

📎 MintPress News

JUST IN: 🇬🇧 UK Government to establish new digital asset legislation and plans to make the country a crypto hub.

@WatcherGuru

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: Israel tells mediators time is running out for diplomatic solution with Hezbollah; Washington fears war in Lebanon will require U.S. to get involved - Kann

@Middle_East_Spectator

🗳 🇺🇸 "Efforts to remove Trump from the ballot are underway in several states, with lawsuits filed in at least California, New Mexico, New Hampshire, and Colorado."

🔶️ "In Colorado, the Supreme Court ruled, while Minnesota's Supreme Court dismissed a similar lawsuit."

🔶️ "Additionally, Democratic secretaries of state in swing states like Arizona and Michigan have been skeptical of exerting authority to disqualify Trump, though efforts are being made in some states to remove him on constitutional grounds, specifically related to his role in Jan 6."

💉 🇲🇽 🏴‍☠️ Chiapas "autodefensas" or vigilantes have announced their formation including the Civil Army of Indigenous People.

🔶️ With a history of rebellion + armed groups, Chiapas could face a conflict like that in Michoacán in 2014 when autodefensas and narcos faced off in trench warfare.

📎 Ioan Grillo

Blockchain security company CertiK has issued an urgent update to OKX wallet users on iPhone following the discovery of a major security vulnerability in the iOS application.

https://crypto.news/certik-urges-immediate-ios-update-for-okx-users-amidst-major-security-risk/

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FIRST 30 MEASURES OF THE JUST ANNOUNCED JAVIER MILEI DEREGULATION PRESIDENTIAL DECREE:

1) Repeal of the Rental Law
2) Repeal of the Supply Law
3) Repeal of the Gondola Law
4) Repeal of the national purchase
5) Repeal of the price observatory
6) Repeal of the law industrial promotion
7) Repeal of the Trade Promotion Law.
8) Repeal of state partnership regimes allowing the privatization of state run companies
9) Repeal of the Sociedad del Estado legal company framework
10) Modernization of the labor regime
12) Reform of the customs code
13) Repeal of the land law
14) Modification of the jurisdiction law
15) Repeal of the law that prevents privatizations
16) Implementation of the open skies
17) Modification of the civil and commercial code
18) Elimination of price restrictions on prepaid medicines.
19) Deregulation of the telecommunications market
20) Deregulation of tourism.
21) Modification of the Civil and Commercial Code to guarantee that obligations contracted in foreign currency must be paid in the agreed currency.
22) Modification to the regulatory framework of prepaid medicine and social works.
23) Elimination of price restrictions on the prepaid industry.
24) Incorporation of prepaid medicine companies into the social work regime.
25) Establishment of electronic prenoscription to streamline service and minimize costs.
26) Modifications to the regime of pharmaceutical companies to promote competition and reduce costs.
27) Modification of the Companies Law so that football clubs can become public limited companies if they so wish.
28) Deregulation of satellite internet services.
29) Deregulation of the tourism sector by eliminating the monopoly of tourism agencies.
30) Incorporation of digital tools for automotive registration procedures.