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• South Korea’s government teeters on the edge of collapse after what appears to have been a failed coup attempt. But the country may not be out of the woods yet with demands for the president’s resignation.
• Joe Biden announces the U.S. government is providing more than $1 billion in aid to African countries, while denying all aid to freezing North Carolina flood victims living in tents.
• New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he will be cooperating with President-elect Donald Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, to deport illegals out of New York City. And you won’t believe what he told his critics.
• Apple earns patent approval for a new biometric digital ID system.
• And the Squad wants to empty out America’s prisons.

All these stories and more when the Worldview Report begins, right now!

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Good evening and welcome to the Worldview Report.

A constitutional crisis has emerged in South Korea, an important U.S ally in the far east. Some are calling it a failed coup attempt against the sitting South Korean president.

The United States said on Tuesday it was watching events in South Korea with “grave concern” after South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol briefly declared martial law, and said it hoped the crisis would be resolved peacefully in accordance with the rule of law.

Reuters reports that Yoon's surprise declaration of martial law, which he said was aimed at his political foes, created the most serious challenge to South Korea's democracy since the 1980s. The declaration was unanimously voted down by 190 lawmakers in the parliament just a few hours after it was issued. Protesters gathered outside parliament, and Yoon's own party urged him to lift the decree.

Under South Korean law, the president must immediately lift martial law if parliament demands it by a majority vote.

Yoon is now being threatened with impeachment by members of Parliament if he doesn’t resign.

Earlier, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell told a State Department event the United States was watching developments and was seeking to engage South Korean counterparts at every level, both in Washington and Seoul.

A White House spokesperson said the U.S. was not notified in advance of Yoon's announcement and added: “We are seriously concerned by the developments we are seeing on the ground.”

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Joe Biden announced Tuesday that the U.S. government is providing more than $1 billion in humanitarian assistance to address food insecurity, the building of houses for the homeless and other urgent needs of refugees and affected communities in 31 African countries. 

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https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/dec-03-2024-united-states-announces-more-1-billion-humanitarian-assistance-address-food-insecurity-and-other-needs-africa

This funding, announced during Biden’s visit to Angola, includes nearly $823 million through USAID, of which more than $202 million is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Commodity Credit Corporation. Another nearly $186 million came through the U.S. Department of State.

But it doesn’t matter the agency. It came from your hard-earned tax dollars.

Hurricane Helene victims are living in tents in the freezing cold, and Biden has nothing to offer them. U.S. veterans are living under bridges as homelessness is at an all-time high. He has nothing for them, either. 

But he can give away billions to Ukraine, to illegals, and now to Africa.

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Apple has been granted a patent for a human identity technology utilizing facial recognition data, among other unique human characteristics.

The technology combines facial-recognition technology with other body characteristics to identify people even when their faces are not visible to the camera.

The Exposé reports that Apple’s patent, filed in May 2022 and granted on November 26, 2024, describes a system that associates facial recognition with other body characteristics such as one’s clothing, gait or gestures to recognize certain people.

The system works by linking a gallery of so-called body croppings such as torso, arms or legs with their face biometrics, then comparing the data with a live video feed. It then proceeds in a stepped approach to identify face, body parts and physical characteristics, which include body shape, skin color, or the texture or color of clothing.

The resulting data constitutes a cluster of so-called bodyprints which can be assigned a confidence score against a person’s faceprint and other characteristics, with storage periods as brief as 24 hours for certain identifiers like clothing.

The system can recognize people based on their body characteristics, even if they are wearing different clothes, and can re-register their clothes periodically to maintain accurate identification.

Biometric Update reported:

“It all appears to add up to a smart camera system that knows a person’s face and walk but re-registers his clothes in the morning so that it is able to recognize him on his way home even if it can’t see his face because it knows his Hawaiian shirt.”

Although the patent is primarily directed to performing identity recognition in a home environment setting, Apple notes that it should not be construed as being limited to this setting.

The technology can be used to identify people in various environments, including homes, office buildings, warehouses, parking lots, and public parks. 

The Exposé notes that, although Apple doesn’t say so, we shouldn’t be surprised if it turns up in applications in law enforcement, border control, intelligence, access management and event security.

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New York City Mayor Adams held a press conference Tuesday and told people that he would be cooperating with President-elect Trump’s Border Czar, Tom Homan, to deport illegals out of New York City. Especially those who have committed crimes.

He went even further and dared people to try and cancel him for doing this. Because, as he put it, this is not a new position in the Democrat Party, pointing to both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for saying criminal illegals must be deported right away.

WATCH VIDEO

https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1864031085211885741

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Vivek Ramaswamy says the newly organized Department of Government Efficiency will scrutinize the government’s $7.5 billion loan to Tesla rival Stellantis, and that this deal and others may need to be canceled.

In a post to X, he said DOGE will also look at a $6.6 billion loan to Rivian for a battery plant in Georgia, adding:

“DOGE will carefully scrutinize every one of these questionable 11th-hour transactions, starting on Jan 20.”

The Biden administration said Monday it would help finance two battery factories in Indiana being built in a joint venture involving the Jeep owner Stellantis and Samsung.

The announcement provoked a furious reaction from Ramaswamy, one of the incoming Trump administration's chief cost-cutting advisors.

Business Insider reported that Ramaswamy, who was tapped to lead the Department of Government Efficiency alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk, called the Stellantis loan illegitimate and said it should be rescinded.

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Cargill, the mega Minnesota-based food production giant, is laying off about 5% of its global workforce as food commodity prices drop.

Cargill is America’s largest privately held company, according to Forbes, and is also the world’s largest agricultural commodities trader. In a statement to CNN on Monday, the company said the changes are part of “a long-term strategy” set earlier this year.

Cargill is big into the ingredients business. In simpler terms, the company is the middleman distributing grains, meat and other farm products around the world. It profited heavily during the pandemic and its aftermath, thanks to inflation and geopolitical turmoil throwing food prices into disarray. But now, grocery prices are dropping.

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Just the News reports that a second Trump administration may signal a significant retreat, if not collapse, of what critics call the censorship-industrial complex.

This is where the U.S. government colludes with private so-called fact-checkers and Big Tech to silence the voices of those they don’t agree with.

But, as noted by Just the News, the ascendance of people targeted for censorship into top posts, especially Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services and Jay Bhattacharya as director of the National Institutes of Health, has global censorship tyrants worried.

Government leaders at that U.N’s Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations met last week and unanimously adopted a Declaration, which binds them to “stress the importance of combatting disinformation, misinformation and hate speech, while strengthening information integrity.” Of course they never define any of those terms or reveal their methods.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the global forum he wants to “rein in hate speech and disinformation online.”

He also said Big Tech, advertisers and media must take responsibility for their role.

The week before, the U.N. and Brazilian government announced a similarly vague Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change to gather evidence on climate disinformation and its impacts that will be used to “bolster strategic action.” 

In Germany, they’re to the point where they’re criminalizing the posting of online memes.

German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser filed criminal charges against the editor of a conservative publication, The German Kurier, for “insult, slander and defamation against people in political life.” All the editor did was post an altered photo of Faeser holding a sign that reads “I hate freedom of speech!”

I can remember when that was called political satire. Now it’s a crime.

The Kurier received fines of 480 euros per day, which could be followed by jail time for the editor.

We’d better be careful or we could be in the same boat in this country one day.

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A 100-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard could face justice over the murder of thousands of prisoners, after a German regional court dismissed an earlier ruling which determined he was unfit to stand trial.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/nazi-concentration-camp-guard-100-150134695.html

According to The Telegraph, a British newspaper, Gregor Formanek is accused of aiding and abetting the murder of 3,300 people while working as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, near Berlin.

Earlier this year, a German regional court suspended the proceedings against Mr. Formanek due to a “permanent inability to stand trial.”

But according to Bild, a German tabloid, that decision has now been overruled by a higher court, opening the door to a trial in the near future.

Formanek is suspected of playing a role in the murder of thousands of prisoners at the camp between July 1943 and February 1945.

A later document drawn up by the East German Stasi secret police states Mr. Formanek, who was a teenager at the time of the alleged offences, “continually killed prisoners.”

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As Democrats mobilize to upend President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of Kash Patel for FBI Director, an influential retired bureau supervisor told Just the News that a large number of agents support Patel for the job because of his national security experience. They also like his vision to replace the law enforcement agency’s leadership who allowed politics to overtake crime fighting.

Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent Jeff Danik told Just the News Monday:

“This guy is completely and 100% qualified to run that organization. He's what's needed today. He's the right fix.”

While Democrats and news media critics have suggested that Patel was selected to be a loyalist seeking revenge on Trump foes, Danik noted Patel's extensive career experience, which includes stints as a federal public defender, federal prosecutor, counterterrorism director at the National Security Council, senior counsel to the House Intelligence Committee and chief of staff to both the Defense Secretary and the Director of National Intelligence.

Danik said of Patel:

“He has the correct balance, in my view, having been there for almost 30 years. He has the correct balance of prosecutor, which is what we do. We feed the prosecution tube. Defense attorney, so the other side of that coin. Intelligence, the intelligence agencies, which is a key element to the FBI's either success or failure.”

He added that,

“And then also, I think this is personal, that he's been a victim himself of the system. And the combination of those things uniquely qualifies him beyond his, you know, substantial accomplishments.”

Those accomplishments, Just the News confirmed, include two major government awards for Patel’s work on national security during the Obama administration.

Danik’s enthusiastic endorsement of Patel is significant, Just the News noted, because he is a popular figure in the FBI retiree community as an accomplished bureau supervisor in the Miami area. He’s also known to help and counsel agents currently on the job.

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Time now for our nightly Worldview Report commentary.

Democratic Massachusetts Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley on Monday urged President Joe Biden to grant clemency to thousands of other Americans imprisoned in federal institutions, after he pardoned first son Hunter Biden.

In other words, she and her squad members would like to see Biden empty out America’s prisons on his way out the door.

While some no doubt need to be freed, like the grandmothers incarcerated for praying outside of abortion mills and many of the J6’rs, that’s not the type Pressley wants to see let out of prison.

The president issued a full pardon late on Sunday night for his son, claiming Hunter was unfairly targeted and prosecuted. The blanket pardon, which covers crimes from 2014 through 2024, means the first son cannot be prosecuted or sentenced for his tax charges, his federal gun charge, or any possible crime he committed while on the board of Burisma. 

Pressley called on Biden to extend presidential pardons for other people who have been victims of an “unjust legal system,” whom she claimed are predominantly “Black and brown.” 

She said in a statement:

“Today, I’m thinking of the hundreds of thousands of people who pose no threat to society and whose lives are deteriorating due to America’s mass incarceration crisis and unjust criminal legal system. President Biden used his pardon authority last night in response to what he saw as an injustice of the legal system.”

Pressley added that, 

“In the remaining days of his presidency, I have called on President Biden to use his clemency power to change the lives of families across this nation — families who are disproportionately Black and brown, with loved ones behind the wall, suffering from injustices of the legal system.”

The statement on Monday is not the first time that Pressley has called on Biden to use his presidential pardon powers in a way that would harm America. The lawmaker joined two other Democrats last month in sending a letter to Biden that urged him to grant clemency to incarcerated Americans, including those convicted of violent crimes, The Hill reported.

This is just the latest indication that our entire federal government has been weaponized. Look where it chooses to spend our tax dollars. It goes to illegals at home, and to foreign governments abroad.

All while our people here are falling farther and farther into poverty. The situation in North Carolina is particularly disturbing, as Americans are living in tents as a bone-chilling winter settles in. Temperatures in the mountains of North Carolina and eastern Tennessee have dropped into the teens at night and FEMA is nowhere to be found as people try to survive amid extreme conditions. I can’t remember a time when anything close to this has taken place in America. 

Please keep Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee in your prayers. 

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