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Saturday, December 27, 2025
Zelenskyy will Meet with President Trump on Sunday in Mar-a-Lago
Representatives from Zelenskyy’s public relations and media team have confirmed to various news outlets the Ukraine President will be meeting with President Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago on Sunday to discuss the latest five segment draft document organized by negotiators.
The meeting between Zelenskyy and President Trump comes after several days of negotiations between the Ukrainian delegation, Trump Emissaries Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner over the Christmas holiday.
(VIA UPI) Former Defense Minister “Rustem Umerov reported on his latest contacts with the American side,” Zelensky wrote. “We are not losing a single day. We have agreed on a meeting at the highest level — with President Trump in the near future. A lot can be decided before the New York.”
CNN reported that Zelensky told reporters he couldn’t say whether he’d leave the meeting with a deal in place. Negotiators will “finalize as much as we can,” he said.
Unnamed Ukrainian officials confirmed to Axios the meeting would take place Sunday at Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago estate.
The meeting will come one week after Russian negotiators and U.S. officials Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met in Miami to hammer out details on a peace plan. Zelensky on Wednesday unveiled a 20-point peace plan agreed upon during that meeting, which would provide strong NATO-style security concessions for Ukraine in exchange for land concessions to Russia. (more)
According to Politico: – […] “The 20-point plan that we worked on is 90 percent ready. Our task, to make sure that everything is 100 percent ready. It is not easy and no one says that it will be 100 percent right away, but nevertheles we must bring the desired result closer with each such meeting, each such conversation,” Zelenskyy told journalists.
He added that the meeting will focus on security guarantees, management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, and territorial control of Donbas, the eastern territories claimed by Moscow.
“First of all, we are working on several documents every day, there are five of them now. We want to talk about a few nuances on security guarantees … In my opinion, I see now that the agreement between us and the United States is almost ready,” Zelenskyy said, adding that he is ready to sign a bilateral agreement depending on how the meeting goes.
The 20-point plan will be a four-party agreement between Ukraine, U.S., Russia and Europe, he added. European leaders might join the meeting online, Zelenskyy said.
Zelenskyy’s announcement came after Thursday talks with U.S. lead negotiator Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, which the Ukrainian president called a “good conversation” and said yielded “timing on how to bring a real peace closer.
Contacts between Ukrainian and U.S. officials have intensified as prospects for a possible peace deal grow in the war-torn country, which has been resisting Russian aggression for nearly four years.
The updated 20-point draft peace plan that Zelenskyy unveiled on Wednesday includes the possibility of creating a special demilitarized economic zone in some areas of Donbas. (read more)
I would not hold out too much hope on this specific set of proposals from Zelenskyy because it still calls for the frontlines in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions to form the de facto border, while Russia will pull out of Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions.
Despite the U.S. intelligence community, NATO forces and mercenaries assisting on the ground in Ukraine and generating successful counterattacks against Russian positions, there is no indication that Russia is willing to cede ground already under their control.
Islamist Terror Threats Ruin Europe's Christmas Celebrations
One of my fonder memories of the time I was deployed to Germany in support of President Clinton's Balkans fracas was the Heidelberg Christmas market. We went to Nuremberg as well and saw the bigger, more impressive Christmas market in that historic city, but as I was staying in Heidelberg, I saw a lot more of that town's events. Fascinating time; all the local shops, all manner of Christmas stuff, usually punctuated by a visit to one of my favorite dining establishments on the banks of the Neckar River for a big plate of schnitzel, some pommes-frites, and a couple of local pilseners.
Of course, back then, in 1996, one could attend one of these wonderful celebrations without worrying about some imported nutcase driving a car through the venue. These days? Not so much.
After decades of reckless mass migration policies, the threat of Islamist terrorism means Christmas festivities in Europe aren’t quite as cheery as they used to be. In the Spectator, friend of the Daily Sceptic Clarissa Hard surveys the grim, deadly attacks in recent years and the official responses to them, concluding that “something has gone terribly wrong”. Here’s an extract:
Public celebrations of Christmas suddenly required anti-terrorism measures in Europe. Moreover, the threat was coming from within.
Left to fester, the danger has only grown. Over the past three years, the costs in Germany for public events have risen on average by about 44 per cent – a surge driven by sharply increased security requirements. Now many of the markets resemble fortified zones, and unaffordable security costs have led to some cancellations. France has also thrown money at security and cancelled its traditional New Year’s Eve celebrations due to a ‘very high’ threat of terror. Tellingly, the threat is significantly lower in the more eastern European countries such as Hungary and Poland.
That's because Hungary and Poland haven't thrown open their national doors to unchecked mass "migration" of people from North Africa and the Middle East - let's say it out loud, the unchecked mass migration of people from the Muslim world.
To Germany, to Britain, to all the countries of Europe who are now having to fortify public displays of Christmas cheer lest some nutcase try to, you know, kill everybody there, I can only say this: You let these people in. What did you think was going to happen?
Look at what the United Kingdom's city of Birmingham is having to do - and making light of it, as though it's no big deal.
Notice the fuzzy use of written English: "Hostile vehicles." A vehicle can't be hostile. It's just a vehicle. An inanimate construct. Only the driver can be hostile, and, fever dreams of the international left notwithstanding, the people who are making this necessary aren't white, blue-eyed, Aryan neo-Nazis. They are Muslims, part of the huge influx from majority-Muslim nations to the various nations of Europe - well, except for Poland and Hungary, which don't seem to need to install bollards everywhere to fend off "hostile vehicles."
This problem is made worse by the refusal of the governments of these nations to even admit what the problem is. They keep letting the problem in, they enable the problem, they encourage the problem, and they will lose their culture, and some of them will lose their lives to the problem.
Enjoy the 2025 Christmas season, Europe. You may not have too many left.
Ukraine anti-corruption agency tries to raid parliament
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency said security services were preventing officers from raiding the parliament on Saturday, as the investigators said some MPs were implicated in new graft probe.
“NABU and SAPO, following an undercover operation, exposed an organized
criminal group that included current members of parliament,” the
National Anti-Corruption bureau (NABU) said.
“Employees of the
State Security Department are resisting NABU officers during
investigative actions in committees of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine,”
it added, referring to Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2025/12/27/ukraine-anticorruption-agency-tries-to-raid-parliament
Citizen Journalist Exposes Scale of Somali Fraud in Minnesota
The number of mainstream news outlets who are doing investigative journalism on the ground in Minnesota to uncover the scale and scope of the Somali fraud rings are zero. However, one citizen journalist named Nick Shirley has put some extensive time into actually visiting the childcare centers at the heart of the scandal and his report is stunning.
In this 40-minute video, Shirley takes the time to search govt databases for grants, then goes and visits the actual businesses. Shirley confronts the fraudsters directly and has likely just put a big target on his back. WATCH:
Chapters:
00:00 Minnesota’s billion-dollar fraud scandal
1:24 Minnesota’s fraud explained
4:33 The type of fraud happening
7:00 Confronting the 1st fraudulent Daycare
9:36 Minnesota’s state flag change
11:02 Confronting the 2nd fraudulent business
12:41 Somali Fraudsters confront us outside daycare
16:30 Quality “Learing” Center
18:14 Local reacts to the fraud
20:17 Entering into the daycare and autism fraud centers
24:09 Exposing a double fraud daycare
26:21 Exposing the “Health care” Fraud scandal
30:32 2nd Building with 22 “Health care” companies
34:32 “WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN?”
39:50 Confronting the government
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey Says if Deportation Operations Continue Minnesota Residents Will Start Killing ICE Agents
Newsguard will note for their information filtering system, that Mayor Jacob Frey did not directly say residents of the region will start killing ICE agents. However, Mayor Frey did say if the ICE deportation operations continue, ICE agents are likely to be killed. The obvious question is, ‘who will do the killing, Jacob‘?
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have built the illegal alien powder-keg while both have financially benefitted from the subsequent Somali community fraud, then together they blame the presence of federal law enforcement -Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)- agents for striking the match. WATCH:
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey warns that continued ICE operations in the city could lead to ICE agents getting killed.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 26, 2025
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Jimmy Kimmel Lies and Cries About Trump in 'Christmas Message'
Leftist media darling Jimmy Kimmel is crying about Trump once again in a Christmas message to the United Kingdom.
“I can tell you, that from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year,” Kimmel said in his “Alternative Christmas Message.” “Tyranny is booming over here.”
Downplaying the unprecedented 30 people arrested daily for “speech crimes” in the United Kingdom, Kimmel said, “I honestly have no idea what’s going on over there. I do know what’s going on over here, though.”
“Here in the United States right now, we are both figuratively and literally tearing down the structures of our democracy from the free press to science to medicine to judicial independence to the actual White House itself,” Kimmel said.
Kimmel addressed the suspension of his show due to his grotesque remarks in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. “The American government made a threat against me and the company I work for, and all of a sudden we were off the air,” Kimmel said.
Kimmel seemingly lied about the cause of the suspension, saying that “my country’s president would like to shut me up because I don’t adore him in the way that he likes to be adored.”
Not satisfied with just lashing out against President Trump, so-called “comedian” Kimmel then turned his attack on the American people.
“We are not bright,” Kimmel said. “We’re Americans! No one knows better than you that we’re just a little late to the game. But do we come through in the end? Maybe. Give us about three years, please.”
The White House’s Abigail Jackson responded to Kimmel’s tantrum in a statement to USA Today, saying “Reacting to Jimmy Kimmel’s 'Christmas speech' would require me to watch it, and like many Americans, I didn’t even know it was happening. Jimmy has unfortunately wasted his time — yet again — doing something no one cares to watch. Merry Christmas!”