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					<description><![CDATA[After insistence of IMF and a visit of Marco Rubio, President Bukele folded and withdrew Bitcoin’s status as El Salvador’s official currency. In December 2024 El Salvador took out a $1.4 IMF loan and in exchange agreed to reduce Bitcoin purchases, removed mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin for merchants and withdraw option to pay taxes in Bitcoin. ]]></description>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Bitcoin Changes in El Salvador</h2>



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	A</span>fter insistence of IMF and a visit of Marco Rubio, President Bukele folded and withdrew Bitcoin’s status as El Salvador’s official currency. In December 2024 El Salvador took out a $1.4 IMF loan and in exchange agreed to reduce Bitcoin purchases, <a href="https://dig.watch/updates/most-bitcoin-firms-in-el-salvador-are-inactive" data-type="link" data-id="https://dig.watch/updates/most-bitcoin-firms-in-el-salvador-are-inactive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">removed mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin</a> for merchants and withdraw option to pay taxes in Bitcoin. The number of El Salvadorian who used Bitcoin for transactions fell from 26% in 2021 to 8% in 2024.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Greenland’s Shift</h2>



<p>President Trump has repeatedly called for acquiring Greenland to be part of USA. As US pressure mounts Danish rule in Greenland that dates 200 years could be coming to an end. Greenlanders are not happy with their <a href="https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-12/greenland-inuit-danish-birth-control-iud-campaign" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.thedial.world/articles/news/issue-12/greenland-inuit-danish-birth-control-iud-campaign" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Danish government after a policy of forced sterilization of girls </a>without their or their parents consent has come to light. Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world, surpassing that of the runner up Guyana by almost a factor of three. If US managed to acquire the world’s biggest island it would jump from being the fourth largest country in the world with 9.8 million square kilometers to being the second largest with 12 million square kilometers. US with Greenland would surpass China and Canada and place just behind Russia with 16.4 million square kilometres.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Solar Disaster</h2>



<p>The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in California’s Mojave Desert, is set to close after just 11 years of operation and a cost of $2.2 billion. The facility is the world’s largest thermal solar power plant with 173,000 heliostats that focuses sunrays onto a 459 foot tower. The 4,000 acre folly is proving not only an energy failure by not delivering nearly enough GWh projected, but also as an ecological disaster on a massive scale. The “eco” solar plant had killed turtles by the thousands and insects by the millions. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6d91c36a1ff608861d5620e715e1141c" data-type="link" data-id="https://apnews.com/article/california-solar-energy-ivanpah-birds-tortoises-mojave-6d91c36a1ff608861d5620e715e1141c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ivanpah also became world’s biggest animal incinerator</a> as the facility created a death trap for birds with its heliostat mirrors burning to death tens of thousands of falcon, owls and warblers as the flew by its mirrors.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honduras Elections</h2>



<p>On Sunday March 9, Honduras held its every four years primary elections. While Liberal party’s Salvador Nasralla beat Jorge Cálix, the ruling Libre party’s Rixi Moncada, w<a href="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-money-influence-2025-election-honduras/" data-type="link" data-id="https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-money-influence-2025-election-honduras/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ho is currently Secretary of National Defense</a> and Secretary of Finance, easily beat Rasel Tome. National’s party Tegucigalpa Mayor Nasry Asfura beat Ana García de Hernández, the wife of US jailed ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández. General elections are scheduled for November 30 to determine the next president and 128 deputies.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">El Salvador’s Prisons</h2>



<p>El Salvador’s prison experiment with its gang members has made a left turn. On February 4, after a one day visit from US’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio, El Salvador’s president Bukele agreed to house violent criminals currently held in US jails regardless of their held nationality. This agreement has little precedent around the world. Some of these criminals will be Salvadorians that are MS-13 gang members, others would be the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, and also U.S. citizens and legal residents with no US nationality. <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/trump-americans-el-salvador-prison-bukele" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/trump-americans-el-salvador-prison-bukele">They are planed to be housed in El Salvador’s</a> CECOT maximum security mega-prison that houses 15,000 currently, but has a capacity for 40,000.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Panama Drama</h2>



<p>Upon taking office in January 2025 president Trump criticized Panama for allowing China a growing influence over its strategic waterway canal. According to sources <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/23/politics/panama-canal-history-trump/index.html">Trump has ordered the military to draw up</a> a plan how it could seize the canal. US acquired the rights to build and operate the canal, but in 1974 sold it to Panama for $1 and its control ceased in 1999. US and Panama agreed however to defend the canal against any threat to its neutrality allowing for a unilateral action to be taken to reestablish it. In March the Hong Kong-based conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. allowed a US based Black Rock-led consortium to purchase Panama Canal ports Port of Cristobal and Port of Balboa for $22 billion.</p>
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					<description><![CDATA[While the Israeli operation in Gaza keeps bearing more ugly fruit, few have analyzed the role Israeli intelligence services played in the October 7 Hamas operation. 
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Just Another False Flag</h2>



<p>While the Israeli operation in Gaza keeps bearing more ugly fruit, few have analyzed the role Israeli intelligence services played in the October 7 Hamas operation.<br>Israeli services had foreknowledge of the Hamas attack from multiple sources. NYT reported on Israeli military having detailed plans of the Hamas attack more than one year before October 7, coincidentally an exact<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/10/yom-kippur-war-defcon-nuclear/" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/10/yom-kippur-war-defcon-nuclear/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> 50 year anniversary of the Yom Kippur war</a>, a date that should have anticipated violence. Also Egyptian military provided Israeli government with repeated warning about the attack days prior. Haaretz reported on Shin Bet and IDF discussing a threat to Nova music festival and hours before the attack. Yet the public was told that IDF was caught by complete surprise on the 50 year anniversary of its Yom Kippur War, a time where all units should be on high alert.<br>While Israel prides itself with having a vast network of spies, informants and fool proof electrical surveillance, yet somehow Shinbet, Mossad, IDF, Israeli Air Force and Navy allowed 3,000 Hamas fighters to breach a secure, electronically monitored fence in 12 places and reach Israeli settlements causing uninterrupted chaos for seven hours: between 6:30am and 1:30pm.<br>We also don’t know why Israeli citizens in communities adjacent to Gaza called out to Israeli forces and family for help, but no help came for seven hours. When it finally did, it resulted in friendly fire deaths. Out of the 1,140 Israelis killed, a sizable percentage have been killed by IDF implementing Hannibal procedure, a policy where Israelis should be sacrificed, killed even as not to allow them to be taken as hostages and taken to Gaza.<br>There is a long tradition of Zionist and later Israeli false flag operations: King David Hotel bombing (1946), The Lavon affair (1954), the USS Liberty attack (1967), Dancing Mossad Agents (2001) to name a few. Increasingly October 7 looks like another false flag operation allowing Israel to perform a land grab action like it did in Golan Heights and is doing in West Bank.<br>Hamas, alongside the ISIS and Al-Qaida is yet another useful golem is the quiver of Israeli intelligence services. A proper investigation of October 7 would lead to some uncomfortable answers and rolling heads in Israel and that current regime there cannot have.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Road Blocking</h2>



<p>On February 8, a group of José Santos Guardiola residents<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&amp;v=2116653852026718&amp;external_log_id=7a26bd3e-b1f4-427e-9329-5b8914e52969&amp;q=toma%20de%20calle%20roatan" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?ref=search&amp;v=2116653852026718&amp;external_log_id=7a26bd3e-b1f4-427e-9329-5b8914e52969&amp;q=toma%20de%20calle%20roatan" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> took to the streets and at 6am blocked the main road</a> connecting the two island municipalities. One of the protesters was holding a sign: “Free NASA driving courses in JSG.” Indeed the main road is ridden with so many potholes it is not only dangerous to drive on it is also reminiscent of a lunar landscape. They were demanding that central government rebuild the damaged road from Oak Ridge to JSG western border. No cars or motorcycles were allowed through the protesters. It seems that the government heard the protester. According to Wendy Carter, one of the protest’s organizers, three companies bid for the rebuilding of the damaged JSG road. “I’m hoping that by the beginning of April they will start the work on the main road,” said Carter.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Honduran President in Jail </h2>



<p>On March 8, US federal court found the Honduran ex-president (2014-22) Juan Orlando Hernández guilty of a conspiracy of a several decade long smuggling of cocaine to the US.<br>While US presidents enjoy freedom from prosecution for wars started for false pretenses,<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68516822" data-type="link" data-id="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68516822" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> importing cocaine to airports in Mena, AR</a>, taking bribes from foreign companies and assassinations, things work differently in Honduras. Not that JOH has not been warned of dangers of his lifestyle by fate of his predecessors: CIA assassin and later president Saddam Hussein, CIA drug runner and spy president Manuel Noriega for example. CIA, the Praetorian guard for the deep state, creates these bad actors, supports them and sacrifices them once their usefulness has run its course.</p>
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