Winter In America

 Feeling Chilled,

  This analysis of new video of Renee Good's homocide by ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shows that Good tried to miss him when he stood in front of her vehicle, preparing to shoot her, by passing hius cellphone camera to his left hand and then tossing it on her vehicle to touch the vehicle with his left hand, as he aimed his gun to shoot her through the windshield. He might or might not have contacted the side of her vehicle with his leg as it passed, but he shot her twice more through her window when he was unthreatened, to assure a kill. What are the "classified" ICE rules of engagement with American Citizens?

You can start about 3:30 and scan forward for the actual video clips which just take a few minutes and are remarkably clear.

  ICE SHOOTING: NEW Explosive Evidence – DOJ Blocks Investigation (New Video Breakdown)   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eklhMEQ8VjE

CNN has 3 minutes of 3D animation and those short video clips of Jonathan Ross shooting Renee Good 3 times, derived from and including this new video, with moment to moment analysis,  (This looks like an intentional killing, not necessaryself-defense.)  https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/us/video/3d-imaging-examines-renee-good-shooting-john-miller-digvid-vrtc

  FBI agent resigns after trying to investigate ICE officer who shot Renee Good

An FBI agent who wanted to investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer who shot Renee Good has resigned, according to the New York Times.
  The New York Times reports that Tracee Mergen left her supervision role after being urged to drop a civil rights inquiry into Jonathan Ross.
Federal investigators have refused to work with Minnesota state agencies on an investigation into Good’s death.
  The announcement comes after six federal prosecutors, including Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Thompson, resigned last week amid pressure to investigate Renee Good’s widow.   https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/fbi-agent-resigns-after-trying-to-investigate-ice-officer-who-shot-renee-good/

  Emerging Evidence Provides Basis for Opening Investigation of ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good, Julia Gegenheimer

On January 7, ICE Agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen, on the streets of Minneapolis. The Justice Department has refused to open a criminal investigation into the shooting, hastily declaring it an act of self-defense that does not warrant a criminal inquiry. But despite statements by administration officials to the contrary, there is more than enough for DOJ to investigate here. I know from experience.
  For over a decade, I was a prosecutor in the Criminal Section of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, the office dedicated to—and staffed with experts on—investigating and prosecuting officer-involved shootings and other uses of excessive force. From reviewing, investigating, and prosecuting law-enforcement misconduct cases, I know both whether and how DOJ, across administrations, would look into something like the Jan. 7 shooting.
  I also know just how challenging such investigations can be and how difficult these cases are to prove. Prosecutors must first find that the force used was excessive as a matter of constitutional law. That means, in Fourth Amendment parlance, the force was an objectively unreasonable seizure. Prosecutors must prove this under a legal standard that explicitly allows “for the fact that…officers are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving—about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.” Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 396-97 (1989).   https://www.justsecurity.org/129439/investigation-ice-jonathan-ross-renee-good/

  ICE Agents approached Alex Pretti RN as he filmed them, not the other way around, They were roughing people up, and went after him when he tried to shield a protester they has beaten down, sprayed him with mace, beat him down in a scrum, beat him in the head with a metal object, pulled his 9mm handgun from his waistband where he had not touched it, stepped back, then several officers shot him 10 times to make sure he was dead. CNN video analysis sheds new light on killing of Alex Pretti   https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/25/us/video/minneapolis-ice-shooting-alex-pretti-visual-analysis-digvid

  How the US and Israel exchange tactics in violence and control - Two decades of Israeli-US police cooperation includes training in racial profiling and violent suppression of protests.   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/12/how-the-us-and-israel-exchange-tactics-in-violence-and-control

  ICE has arrested and detained witnesses. Naked Capitalism has a grouping of stories: ICE Execution in Minneapolis

I don’t know how America survives this level of willful, institutionalized savagery. By most counts, ICE pumped ten bullets into a ICU nurse, Alex Pretti, for the crime of filming them and trying to intercede on behalf of a woman they had shoved to the pavement. The evidence of the execution is clear cut. ICE has not just gunned down an innocent man, but is also successfully terminating what remained of the rule of law in the US. A sampling of the evidence:   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/ice-execution-in-minneapolis.html

  Chemical Torture: Pepper-Sprayed While Pinned Down: A Searing Scene Provokes Outrage
Images of a man getting pepper-sprayed at close range while being held down by Border Patrol agents fueled more tension in Minneapolis.   https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minneapolis-man-pepper-sprayed-pinned-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G1A.j9wa.vNR2mntSe-OX&smid=url-share

Gil Scott Heron "Winter In America"   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2zKdIcOV5s

  Professor Ugo Bardi posts this article, which assrts that the core of a civil-war dynamic is when government forces treat all citizens as potential enemy combatants, which is how Israeli armed forces are trained to treat non-Jews, and how ICE appears to have been trained to engage American citizens, though this remains "classified". Why are ICE rules-of-engagement "classified"?  THE SECOND US CIVIL WAR - It is not science fiction. It has already started   https://senecaeffect.substack.com/p/the-second-us-civil-war

Thomas Neuburger, Black Sites and Black Days This is a follow-up to our recent Minnesota Black Site post:

Is ICE Running a Black Site in Minnesota?  'They were put in cells reserved for U.S. citizens'

    https://neuburger.substack.com/p/is-ice-running-a-black-site-in-minnesota
 Is it really fair to call the ICE prison at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building a “black site”? Let’s take a look. 

   “Black site” is a scary term. It’s been frequently used for places where the CIA maintains off-the-radar prisons, where abducted terrorists are taken, held and usually tortured.   https://neuburger.substack.com/p/black-sites-and-black-days

ICE Is Scanning Civilians’ Faces, Telling Them They’re Being Entered Into a Terrorism Database   https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ice-database-facial-scan

  Documents Prove The Trump Administration Arrested Students for Criticizing Israel
Newly unsealed court records illustrate how the US government specifically targeted students for pro-Palestine speech.   https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/ozturk-khalil-documents-deportation-pro-palestine-protest-canary-mission/

Minneapolis Shooting Sets Stage For Government Shutdown Unless Republicans Cave On DHS   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/minneapolis-shooting-sets-stage-government-shutdown-unless-republicans-cave-dhs

  William Murphy, The Erasure Economy: How Survival Becomes a Crime in America

When housing is a commodity and survival a liability, America forces its most vulnerable into displacement and exile.

  When survival becomes illegal in your own city, displacement isn’t a side effect—it’s the policy.
This is the quiet logic of the Erasure Economy: a political system that systematically removes people once they stop being profitable. Housing in the United States is no longer organized around shelter; it’s organized around extraction. Rent, mortgages, zoning, and “quality of life” ordinances function together as a sorting mechanism—not to house people, but to decide who gets to stay.
  Start with affordability. Wages stagnate while rents and home prices soar, driven by financialization, speculative investment, and landlord consolidation. Housing is treated less like infrastructure and more like a financial asset class. Once that happens, scarcity becomes a feature, not a bug. High prices are not a failure of the system—they are the system working exactly as designed.
  Now look at the escape hatches people turn to when traditional housing becomes impossible. Tiny homes? Banned or strangled by zoning codes written for single-family suburban fantasies. Manufactured housing? Bought up by private equity, rents jacked up, residents displaced. Living in a vehicle? Criminalized through parking ordinances, anti-camping laws, and constant police harassment. RV living, once a retirement fallback, is now treated as a public nuisance. Car camping becomes a misdemeanor. Existing while poor becomes a crime...

 ..Forced migration is the endgame. Seniors on fixed incomes are pushed out of the cities they built. Low-wage workers are driven farther and farther from jobs that still depend on their labor. Entire populations are shuffled across state lines, into deserts, into forests, into invisibility. This isn’t mobility—it’s exile...  The real crisis isn’t homelessness. It’s a political economy that refuses to make space for people it no longer profits from.   https://futuredude.substack.com/p/the-erasure-economy-how-survival

Filthy homeless encampments pop up across Manhattan after woke new NYC mayor vowed to stop clearing them away   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15491609/homeless-encampments-nyc-zohran-mamdani.html

  Snitch on your foreign coworkers to the government. USDA Researchers Instructed to Investigate Foreign Colleagues

President Donald Trump’s administration is directing employees at the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate foreign scientists who collaborate with the agency on research papers for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.”
  The new directive, part of a broader effort to increase scrutiny of research done with foreign partners, asks workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists. The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/usda-researchers-instructed-to-investigate-foreign-colleagues.html

  Across the pond: UK Home Secretary’s Shocking Admission About the Emerging AI Surveillance State

UK Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, the person nominally in charge of the UK Police, justice system and MI5, sat down for an in conversation event with the former Prime Minister (and current Labour government’s eminence grise) Tony Blair, organised by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.   In that conversation, made a chilling admission about the government’s ultimate goal of AI surveillance.
From the Daily Telegraph, the only mainstream newspaper besides Scotland’s The National to deign to cover the story:
  “AI and technology can be transformative to the whole of the law and order space."
“When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. Similarly, in the world of policing, in particular, we’ve already been rolling out live facial recognition technology, but I think there’s big space here for being able to harness the power of AI and tech to get ahead of the criminals, frankly, which is what we’re trying to do.”
  [Bentham, an 18th-century philosopher and social theorist, promoted the Panopticon as a circular prison with a central inspection tower from which a single guard could observe all inmates all the time while unseen.]   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/uk-home-secretarys-surprisingly-candid-admission-about-real-reason-for-ai-surveillance-state.html

Conor Gallagher, The US’ New National Defense Strategy Calls For A World War-Like Military Build-Up   https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/the-us-new-national-defense-strategy-calls-for-a-world-war-like-military-build-up.html

  Smartphone-chip AI: China reveals 200-strong AI drone swarm that can be controlled by a single soldier — ‘intelligent algorithm’ allows individual units to cooperate autonomously even after losing communication with operator   https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-reveals-200-strong-drone-swarm-uses-intelligent-algorithm-to-allow-individual-units-to-cooperate-autonomously-even-after-losing-communication-with-operator

  The EU finally used an economic threat against Trump. But the markets forced his climbdown

Earlier diplomatic talks between American, Danish and Greenlandic representatives addressing the reasons behind the US wish to annex Greenland – national security, the mineral resources under its land mass and its quick access to space – had not made the breakthrough. Further Nato and European assurances on these questions seem to be part of the “framework” that Rutte and Trump discussed to end the crisis, such as banning China from mining exploration and offering a base for the US Golden Dome project.
  But what really changed the calculus was dangling the possibility of retaliatory measures to the tune of $93bn, making the markets jittery and Trump fold. Europe, too, can use economic leverage to its advantage.   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/24/eu-economic-threat-donald-trump-greenland

  Trump threatens 100 percent tariff on Canada over China deal
Donald Trump’s threat comes after Canada reached deal with China last week on trade of agriproducts, electric vehicles.   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/24/trump-threatens-100-percent-tariff-on-canada-over-china-deal?traffic_source=rss

  Trump warns of 'big retaliation' if Europe divests from US stocks and bonds
US President Donald Trump says Washington holds "all the cards" in economic disputes after a Danish fund said it would sell its entire holdings of US Treasuries — about $100 million.   https://www.trtworld.com/article/fbd4bbb30f5b

  ‘Repatriate the gold’: German economists advise withdrawal from US vaults
Shift in relations and unpredictability of Donald Trump make it ‘risky to store so much gold in the US’, say experts

  Germany holds the world’s second biggest national gold reserves after the US, of which approximately €164bn (£142bn) worth – 1,236 tonnes – is stored in New York.   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/24/repatriate-the-gold-german-economists-advise-withdrawal-from-us-vaults

  "Protection" racket? US must have rights to Greenland’s resources as it defends its territory — vice presidentnt JD Vance added that US President Donald Trump is working on the details of a Greenland deal   https://tass.com/world/2075791

​  US-brokered Russia-Ukraine talks close with no breakthrough
On eve of day two of talks in UAE capital, Russian attacks cut off about 1.2 million from power in sub-zero temperatures.​   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/24/us-brokered-talks-on-ukraine-close-with-no-breakthrough

  Iran’s Unrest: The Confrontation That Failed to Ignite

What began as economic protests in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar was quickly exploited and transformed into something far more dangerous. Within six days, international actors received communications from Iranian Kurdish separatist groups requesting logistical support. This included field hospitals and medical and emergency supplies.
  Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian attempted to contain the unrest through dialogue and economic changes. Yet, intelligence reports reflected an organized, multi-layered protest map unfolding. Bazaar protest leaders soon recognized that the street had slipped into chaos. They formally withdrew and informed authorities that they bore no responsibility for the events. Reformist opposition figures further highlighted that the country was being driven into a trap...

..The state moved quickly against rebellious groups in cities and provinces. Armed groups operating inside urban centers were confronted directly. Calm during daylight hours under heavy deployment was followed by intensive night operations. Police units flooded major intersections and residential quarters, backed by undercover teams and rapid-response forces. Any act of arson, armed attack, or sabotage triggered immediate pursuit and arrest.
  In parallel, authorities launched a comprehensive cyber operation to track the networks distributing footage across domestic and international platforms. They then imposed a near-total communications blackout. Internet access was restricted to a narrow group of authorized users. Anyone broadcasting from inside Iran without clearance was treated as part of a foreign information operation.
  The turning point came in Kermanshah. Iranian security services detected suspicious activity along the country’s western borders. They uncovered an activated plan combining mass protests with armed assaults on state institutions. Police stations, civil administration offices, and emergency services were targeted. The objective was to create a high level of chaos and then seize control of the province’s civil and security administration centers.
  Washington could not calculate Tehran’s response to any military attack. The risk was a regional fire.
  Authorities classified the operation as a foreign-backed military rebellion. US President Donald Trump publicly called on protesters to escalate and seize government centers. When he said that “help is on its way,” he was not speaking rhetorically. The plan on the table was a combined military operation — air and ground — focused on Kermanshah. Its purpose was to dismantle Iran’s command structure in the province, impose an aerial blockade, and allow insurgent forces to consolidate control.

  Money was used to mobilize citizens. Teenagers received between $3 and $5 to burn pictures of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, while elderly men were paid similar amounts to overturn and set fire to garbage bins. Authorities noted the participation of female operatives in violent acts, including surprise shootings, before disappearing into alleyways. Other groups prepared and threw Molotov cocktails at vehicles and shops. Large quantities of weapons were later seized, including pistols and hunting rifles used in attacks on security forces...

..Israeli intelligence operating inside Iran and from Iraqi Kurdistan informed Washington that Tehran was regaining control rapidly and that the protest infrastructure was collapsing... By that stage, the United States was not prepared for a full-scale confrontation. At best, limited strikes were considered to provide cover for insurgent advances. But Iran’s internal containment neutralized that option...

..Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE, and Turkey entered emergency consultations with the US administration, warning that the confrontation could spiral beyond control. All four countries refused to allow their territory, airspace, or bases to be used in any attack on Iran... These countries knew they would be first in the line of fire. This forced the US administration to search for alternatives to any potential military campaign. With no clear military pathway and no certainty over Tehran’s response, Washington was left with few viable options.
  The war was not abandoned; it was postponed.   https://en.al-akhbar.com/news/iran-s-unrest--the-confrontation-that-failed-to-ignite

​  Iran Threatens to ‘Sink’ USS Abraham Lincoln as U.S. Carrier Strike Group Enters Gulf Waters, Is Iran Capable of Sinking It?​   

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the carrier’s arrival as a “deliberate provocation,” while IRGC Commander-in-Chief Hossein Salami declared that Iranian forces have their “finger on the trigger.” In statements broadcast on state media, Salami warned that any U.S. strike would trigger an “all-out war” and claimed Iran could destroy American warships with missiles “faster than the enemy can react.”
​  Central to Iran’s messaging is the Fattah-1 missile, unveiled in 2023 and repeatedly showcased since then as a hypersonic system capable of speeds exceeding Mach 13. Iranian officials claim the weapon employs a maneuverable reentry vehicle, allowing it to evade interception by U.S. naval air defenses and strike high-value targets at sea.​   https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Iran-Threatens-to-Sink-USS-Abraham-Lincoln-as-US-Carrier-Strike-Group-Enters-Gulf-Waters-Is-Iran-Capable-of-Sinking-It/

  Articles from informed sources on US-Israeli war against Iran: Art-of-the Deal Theatre or War? Ronen Bergman: 'The Ayatollahs won the first round; Iranian regime not in danger' - A compilation tracking consequential & strategic observations on US-Israel-Iran -- Analysis & reports from various sources   https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/art-of-the-deal-theatre-or-war-ronen?utm=

   Really big, deep ditches: Israel Is Turning the Yellow Line Splitting Gaza into a Physical Barrier

 Last month, the Israeli military began constructing earth berms in areas along the yellow line, physically cutting off Palestinians from the Israeli-controlled zone and the rest of Gaza.   https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-yellow-line-earth-berms-blocks-physical-barrier-israel-palestinians

  How Israeli settler violence empties Palestinian villages

Settler violence has forced over 100 people out of a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank in recent weeks, rights groups say. The pattern of harassment is also being repeated elsewhere.   https://www.dw.com/en/how-israeli-settler-violence-empties-palestinian-villages/a-75595251

A Report Too Damning to Air – Inside Israel’s ‘Living Hell’ Prison System​   https://www.palestinechronicle.com/a-report-too-damning-to-air-inside-israels-living-hell-prison-system/

Israeli Attacks Kill Two Children in Gaza as Belgium Bans Transit of Arms to Israel​   https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-attacks-kill-two-children-in-gaza-as-belgium-bans-transit-of-arms-to-israel/

Another Gaza baby freezes to death on Netanyahu’s watch – Not a ceasefire Day 106​   https://israelpalestinenews.org/another-gaza-baby-freezes-to-death-on-netanyahus-watch-not-a-ceasefire-day-106/

Civil society organizations in Gaza: 18,500 patients and wounded in need of urgent medical evacuation​   https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01/24/356471/

That deep Venezuelan tar is very hard and expensive to get out. Only a Fraction of Venezuela's Oil Is Economically Recoverable   https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Only-a-Fraction-of-Venezuelas-Oil-Is-Economically-Recoverable.html

The US stole Venezuelan oil from all previously seized tankers.​   https://en.topwar.ru/276914-ssha-ukrali-venesujelskuju-neft-so-vseh-zahvachennyh-ranee-tankerov.html

  Trump administration weighs naval blockade to halt Cuban oil imports - “Energy is the chokehold to kill” the Cuban regime, said a person familiar with the discussions.   https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/23/trump-administration-weighs-naval-blockade-to-halt-cuban-oil-imports-00744708

Mexico reviews oil shipments to Cuba amid U.S. pressure and rising geopolitical tensions   https://myind.net/Home/viewArticle/mexico-reviews-oil-shipments-to-cuba-amid-us-pressure-and-rising-geopolitical-rising

  Colin Todhunter, India: The Great Dispossession and the Battle for the Future of Food

If there’s one country that captures the global battle over who controls the basic building blocks of life, it’s India.
  With more than half of its 1.4 billion people dependent on agriculture for a living, the stakes transcend national borders. What is taking place in India is a high‑stakes laboratory for a global script: the methodical dismantling of indigenous food systems to be rebuilt in the image of transnational capital.   https://www.globalresearch.ca/india-great-dispossession-battle-future-food/5913156

This Massive Winter Storm Is COMPLETELY ENGINEERED! – Dane Wiggington​   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auLw2s8lXKA

​  This ​shutoff system can be remotely activated for any reason, or no reason: Effort to Repeal 'Kill Switch' Mandate for Cars Fails in Congress

On Thursday, the House rejected Representative Thomas Massie's amendment to H.R. 7148 on a 164–268 roll call, blocking defunding of Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
​  Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act mandates all new U.S. vehicles sold after 2026 include advanced drunk and impaired‑driving prevention technology, while the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is still finalizing details on technology options like cameras and sensors.​   https://ground.news/article/effort-to-repeal-kill-switch-mandate-for-cars-fails-in-congress_3f4782

 UNITED HEALTHCARE CAUGHT PAYING OFF NURSING HOMES TO LET SENIORS DIE INSTEAD OF SENDING THEM TO THE HOSPITAL UnitedHealth falls on report it secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers   https://x.com/boonecutler/status/2014206011570004468

  New filtration technology could be gamechanger in removal of Pfas ‘forever chemicals’
Researchers found a new way to filter and destroy Pfas chemicals at 100 times the rate of current systems   https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/23/pfas-forever-chemicals-filtration

​Dealing With Reality (featuring tomatoes brought in last week after light freeze) 

Another Dead Citizen

 Fellow Citizens,

​The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says​    

​  Family members say the man killed by a U.S. Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis on Saturday was an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital who cared deeply about people and was upset by President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his city.
​  Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed getting in adventures with Joule, his beloved Catahoula Leopard dog who also recently died. He had participated in protests following the killing of Renee Good by a U.S. Immigration and Customs officer on Jan. 7.
​  “He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Michael Pretti, Alex’s father. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”

​  Pretti was a U.S. citizen, born in Illinois. Like Good, court records showed he had no criminal record and his family said he had never had any interactions with law enforcement beyond a handful of traffic tickets.​..

..The Department of Homeland Security said that the man was shot after he “approached” Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semiautomatic handgun. Officials did not specify if Pretti brandished the gun, and it is not visible in bystander video of the shooting obtained by The Associated Press.
​  Family members said Pretti owned a handgun and had a permit to carry a concealed handgun in Minnesota. They said they had never known him to carry it.​..

​..Alex Pretti grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he played football, baseball and ran track for Preble High School. He was a Boy Scout and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir.
​  After graduation, he went to the University of Minnesota, graduating in 2011 with a bachelor’s degree in biology, society and the environment, according to the family. He worked as a research scientist before returning to school to become a registered nurse.​   https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/the-man-killed-by-a-us-border-patrol-officer-in-minneapolis-was-an-icu-nurse-family-says-01-24-2026

  ​Video from 2 angles: , He held a camera, and never drew any weapon. Was it a "throw-down" handgun? ICE mob beat him up on the ground after he tried to get between them and somebody else they were beating, then they shot him until he was good and dead as he tried to stand up. Alex "violently resisted arrest", they said. I didn't see that.  "Let Our ICE Patriots Do Their Job": Trump Rages After Armed Suspect Shot By Border Patrol Dies   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/border-patrol-agent-shoots-armed-suspect-minneapolis

  He comports himself as a thoughtful citizen in the video: Another angle of federal agents killing a Minnesota legal observer, which appears to come from the direction of the woman in pink filming from the sidewalk.   https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2015131503622021472

Denmark Immediately Rejects Trump’s Preposterous “Framework for a Deal”​   https://mishtalk.com/economics/denmark-immediately-rejects-trumps-preposterous-framework-for-a-deal/

Greentanamo: Trump Deal Gives US Sovereignty Over Small Pockets Of Greenland For Military Bases​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-arrives-davos-after-air-force-one-electrical-issue-sparked-brief-delay

Danish Pension Fund Divests $100 M in US Treasuries​   https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/sovereign-debt-crisis/danish-pension-fund-disinvests-100-m-in-us-treasuries/

​US strategic base on Diego Garcia is critical imperial infrastructure: In Humiliating Retreat, Starmer Forced To Pull Chagos Bill After Trump Backlash   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/humiliating-retreat-starmer-forced-pull-chagos-bill-after-trump-backlash

​  Forget Trump and Greenland. Howard Lutnick Gave The Davos Speech That Mattered

Trump was abrasive and insulting and no one budged. Lutnick was rational and clear, and the WEF attendees who didn’t throw fits cried anonymously to media. Trump is surely hated, but on Planet Davos the most unforgivable sin is abandoning the globalism gravy train in favor of a return to national-interest politics.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/forget-trump-and-greenland-howard-lutnick-gave-davos-speech-mattered

​  We already know that money "for Ukraine" just goes to connected corporations, and Larry Fink's BlackRock stands to lose a whole lot of money on bets for Ukraine over Russia in this war, when peace is declared. The EU-US $800BN Postwar Ukraine 'Prosperity' Plan Which Should Outrage MAGA   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/eu-us-800bn-postwar-ukraine-prosperity-plan-which-should-outrage-maga

"Maximizing-shareholder-value" Larry Fink Says Public Has Lost Trust In Davos Elites And He Blames "Capitalism"   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/larry-fink-says-public-has-lost-trust-davos-elites-and-he-blames-capitalism

​  Horton: "Zionism Ultimately Is The Achilles Heel In America First"​  

Horton argued that U.S. alignment with Israeli regional priorities undermines the very premise of America First by entangling Washington in conflicts that do not directly serve U.S. security interests.
​  “I think that Zionism ultimately is the Achilles heel in America first, because we really cannot be, and the last year I think shows, we cannot have an America first policy when it’s Israel instead.”​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/horton-zionism-ultimately-achilles-heel-america-first

​Act of War: French Navy Intercepts Russia-Linked Oil Tanker In Mediterranean: 'We'll Let Nothing Pass'​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/french-navy-intercepts-russia-linked-oil-tanker-mediterranean-well-let-nothing-pass

​  Trump apparently confirms secret US sonic weapon use in Venezuela
‘We have weapons that no one knows about,’ he claimed – ‘It’s probably better not to talk about it, but we have amazing weapons’​   https://asiatimes.com/2026/01/trump-says-us-used-a-secret-sonic-weapon-in-venezuela-attack/

​  Drop Site News: Leaked audio from Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez revealed that in the minutes following the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro, U.S. officials explicitly threatened her life and that of other ranking Chavista figures if they did not cooperate.
  "The threats began from the very first minute they kidnapped the president. They gave Diosdado Cabello [the interior minister], Jorge [Rodríguez, head of the National Assembly] and me 15 minutes to respond, or they would kill us.”   https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2015098250127188029

​  Trump Plotting Regime Change in Cuba by Year’s End: WSJ
Officials said the recent abduction of Venezuela’s president provides a “blueprint” for Trump’s plans in Cuba​   https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/22/trump-plotting-regime-change-in-cuba-by-years-end-wsj/

​Canada loses quickly: Canada's Military Preps Model Of Hypothetical US Invasion In Historic First   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/canadas-military-models-hypothetical-us-invasion-historical-first

  Carney serves Bank of England & City of London interests: Trump disinvites Canada from his ‘peace board’
The US president has changed his mind following a public spat with Prime Minister Mark Carney​   https://www.rt.com/news/631386-trump-board-peace-disinvites-carney/

Trump Says Canada Will Face 100% Tariffs if It "Makes A Deal With China"​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-says-canada-will-face-100-tariffs-if-it-makes-deal-china

Shockwaves In Beijing: Xi Targets His Own Top General, Longtime Confidant, In Elite Purge​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/shockwaves-beijing-xi-targets-his-own-top-general-longtime-confidant-elite-purge

  ​I think there was more to it than this, but don't know what: "Oreshnik" destroyed not a gas storage facility in Lviv region, but half of Ukraine's F-16s in underground hangars.   https://en.topcor.ru/67967-oreshnik-unichtozhil-na-lvovschine-ne-gazohranilische-a-polovinu-f-16-ukrainy-v-podzemnyh-angarah.html

  John Helmer (again)  IN RUSSIA’S WAR OF CAPITAL WITH THE WEST, KIRILL DMITRIEV’S ROLE IS TO NEGOTIATE TERMS OF SURRENDER

A quarter of a century ago, President Vladimir Putin explained to President George W. Bush the way the warfighting world really works.

​  “There is a contradiction between a new, young, aggressive financial Islamic capital and the old one,” Putin said.  “In reality, it is a financial issue. Religion is secondary. The real goal is to have a place in the centre of world finances, a place that is already occupied. They want to push away representatives of Jewish capital or, if not, they will try to destroy the centre and shake it up and, ultimately,  in that way to take its place. The reason for the terrorism isn’t the Middle East or poverty. They use poverty and they use unresolved conflicts. They are using other problems. These problems are not the real reasons for terrorism…I raised this not just to support you, but to say that we all have fight in the same world.”
​  By Jewish capital, Putin was repeating the line he remembered from his Marxist-Leninist textbooks in which the capital of Russia’s enemies in Europe and the US was inter-connected and in which the ideology of religion always reflected the underlying class struggle between capital and labour.​   https://johnhelmer.net/in-russias-war-of-capital-with-the-west-kirill-dmitrievs-role-is-to-negotiate-terms-of-surrender/

​  Israel’s Netanyahu accepts Trump invitation to join proposed ‘Board of Peace’ on Gaza
Israeli prime minister agrees to take part in global initiative focused on Gaza despite International Criminal Court arrest warrant for alleged war crimes​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-s-netanyahu-accepts-trump-invitation-to-join-proposed-board-of-peace-on-gaza/3806062

Trump’s ‘board of peace’: a privatized UN with one shareholder​   https://asiatimes.com/2026/01/trumps-board-of-peace-a-privatized-un-with-one-shareholder/

​  Trump says Hamas must give up weapons or be 'blown away'

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr. Trump said he would set a deadline in the next few days and expects clarity within three weeks on whether Hamas will surrender arms or be `blown away`.​   https://ground.news/article/trump-says-hamas-must-give-up-weapons-or-be-blown-away_ddae7a

​  Putin Says Russia Won’t Join Board of Peace Without UN-Backed Palestinian Guarantees

Russia has thrown a major diplomatic wrench into a high-profile U.S. initiative for reshaping global conflict mediation, with President Vladimir Putin declaring that Moscow will not join President Donald Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” unless the rights of the Palestinian people are explicitly guaranteed under existing United Nations resolutions.​   https://www.thedefensenews.com/news-details/Putin-Says-Russia-Wont-Join-Board-of-Peace-Without-UN-Backed-Palestinian-Guarantees/

​  Remember this: Spain refuses to join Trump's Gaza 'Board of Peace' over breach of international law

The controversial plan has raised concerns due to its lack of Palestinian input and its potential to undermine the UN​   https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-board-peace-plan-spain-rejects-invitation-join-while-trump-rescinds-canadian-invitation

​  UNRWA maintains records specific to Palestinian rights-of-return to properties stolen since 1948.  Ben Gvir Celebrates as Israel Destroys Aid Agency Headquarters - Israel is attempting to force the UN aid agency for Palestinians to cease operations for Israel   https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/20/ben-gvir-celebrates-as-israel-destroys-aid-agency-headquarters/

  Drop Site: Leaked Documents: “Planned Community” in Rafah Would Force Palestinians Into Israeli Panopticon

The U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center is proposing a residential zone in Gaza with biometric surveillance, checkpoints, and educational programs promoting normalization with Israel.​   https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/cmcc-leaked-documents-gaza-residential-zone-surveillance-checkpoints-rafah

​  Caitlin Johnstone, The Magic System Of Zionism

If a man who’d never heard of Israel or Palestine were shown footage of the genocide in Gaza, he would reflexively recoil in horror and say what he was looking at was a bad thing. If somebody then ran up and explained to him that what he just said was actually a hateful act of religious persecution, he would be very surprised and confused. Because he hadn’t been indoctrinated into making that association, in the same way you haven’t been indoctrinated into associating criticism of the Indian government with an attack on the religion of Hinduism.

​  It’s a completely counterintuitive association. There’s nothing about it that that you could find your way into through your own observation and reasoning. It’s something you’d need to be taught by others. You need it to be explained to you.
​  That’s the literal translation of the Hebrew word “hasbara”. It means “explaining”. Israel and its supporters have spent decades “explaining” to the world that criticism of the state of Israel is actually a terrible hate crime against Jews and their religion, because otherwise it would never occur to a normal person that that is the case.​..

​..There was a segment in last year’s Louis Theroux documentary The Settlers that stuck with me where Israeli settler leader Daniella Weiss refers to Zionism as a “magic system”.
​  “Jewish settlements in Gaza is a very difficult step that demands a lot of work,” Weiss told Theroux. “You have to influence the leftists, the government, the nations of the world, using the magic system: Zionism.”​ It isn’t surprising to learn that Weiss views her operations as a kind of magic.​   https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-magic-system-of-zionism

Israel Drops Leaflets in Gaza Ordering Families to Evacuate – First Since Ceasefire​   https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-drops-leaflets-in-gaza-ordering-families-to-evacuate-first-since-ceasefire/

​  Israel Kills 11 in Gaza, Including Children and Journalists​ - Israel continues to violate the ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump with daily strikes in Gaza​   https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/21/israel-kills-11-in-gaza-including-children-and-journalists/

Egyptian Gaza Relief Group Says Israeli Strike on Photographers Was Deliberate​   https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5232292-egyptian-gaza-relief-group-says-israeli-strike-photographers-was-deliberate

​  B’Tselem says at least 84 Palestinians killed in Israeli torture camps
Rights groups say Israel’s prison system relies on torture, starvation and abuse, with scores of Palestinians killed since 2023​   https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-84-palestinians-killed-israel-torture-camps-btselem-says

Brutal Beatings, Arson, and Impunity: A Palestinian Plant Nursery Becomes a Target for Settler Pogroms​   https://israelpalestinenews.org/brutal-beatings-arson-and-impunity-a-palestinian-plant-nursery-becomes-a-target-for-settler-pogroms/

​Very few dialysis beds remain: Dying on Waiting Lists: Gaza’s Kidney Patients Face a Silent Death   https://www.palestinechronicle.com/dying-on-waiting-lists-gazas-kidney-patients-face-a-silent-death/

IOF carries out home demolitions west of Ramallah amid wider restrictions and settler attacks​   https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01/21/356269/

New illegal outpost established in Khan al-Ahmar; settlers pitch tents in Nablus​   https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/01/21/356291/

​  Israeli agricultural exports face looming ‘collapse’ as world rejects products over Gaza genocide
Israeli farmers warn the country's agricultural export industry is facing a looming “collapse” due to international opposition to the Gaza genocide. Recent reports show the impact of boycotting Israel, and why the Israeli 'brand' may never recover.

​  “They don’t want our mangos,” a mango farmer tells Kan 11 in one of the reports. “In Europe, they talk to us only if they’re missing something. Only then do they buy from us. If they have an alternative, they avoid it.”​   https://mondoweiss.net/2026/01/israeli-agricultural-exports-face-looming-collapse-as-world-rejects-products-over-gaza-genocide/

New wave of Israeli strikes on Lebanon as US suspends ceasefire mechanism​   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/01/23/762756/US-suspends-ceasefire-mechanism

US Declares End to Military Support for Syrian Kurds​ - As fighting rages in north Syria, US goes all-in backing Islamist HTS​   https://news.antiwar.com/2026/01/20/us-declares-end-to-military-support-for-syrian-kurds/

​  The Tag Team Fails in Iran​, by John Mearsheimer

​ The mainstream media in the West is committed to portraying the protests in Iran as strictly an internal affair. The people of Iran, so the argument goes, spontaneously rose up against their government because they were in desperate straits due to their leaders’ corruption and mismanagement of the economy, as well as their oppressive policies. Virtually all the protestors in this story were peaceful, but their protests were met with government violence. Outside forces had little to do with causing the protests.
​  This interpretation of what happened in Iran is wrong and contradicted by an abundance of evidence. None of this is to deny that there were many peaceful protestors who had legitimate grievances against the government, but that is only part of the story.
​  If fact, what happened in Iran is an attempt by the Israeli & American tag team to overthrow the government in Tehran and break apart Iran, much the way the US, Turkey, and Israel fractured Syria. The playbook in Iran is one we have seen before.​   https://original.antiwar.com/john-mearsheimer/2026/01/20/the-tag-team-fails-in-iran/

​  Trump says US ‘armada’ moving towards Iran
President warns Washington is watching Tehran closely as US naval forces move into the region​   https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/trump-says-us-armada-moving-towards-iran-amid-renewed-threats

S-400 systems can "see"​ F-35s: Can U.S. Marine Corps F-35C Fighters ‘Kick Down the Door’ to Shatter Iran’s Air Defences?​   https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/could-marine-f35c-kickdown-door-iran-air-defences

U.S. Surges Force Deployments Around Iran: F-15E Long Range Fighters Arrive in the Middle East​   https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-surge-force-iran-f15e

Iran Successfully Tests First ICBM​   https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/component/content/article/iran-successfully-tests-first-icbm?catid=17&Itemid=101

​  Freedom & Democracy: US pledges to 'starve' Iraq of oil revenue if pro-Iran parties join new government

Trump is turning up the pressure on Iraq in his campaign to destabilize Iran​   https://thecradle.co/articles/us-pledges-to-starve-iraq-of-oil-revenue-if-pro-iran-parties-join-new-government

​  National interests are different: Chinese EVs, batteries gain world market share as Trump backs oil

China’s electric vehicle surge exposes growing fractures in a Western alliance seeking to curb imports​   https://asiatimes.com/2026/01/chinese-evs-batteries-gain-world-market-share-as-trump-backs-oil/

​Industrial co-generation:  No nation has tried what China is now attempting with an industrial-heat nuclear power plant   https://www.prototypingchina.com/2026/01/21/no-nation-has-tried-what-china-is-now-attempting-with-an-industrial-heat-nuclear-power-plant/

  Spain has refused to ship military supplies to "Israel" for over a year: Fourth Railway Accident In Spain In Less Than A Week: Reports Of Infrastructure Breakdown, Not Mere Accidents

​  What Is Behind The Infrastructure Breakdown? Is This One Story, Or Several? Is There An Agenda 2030 Angle? What Has Spain Done To Deserve This? WHERE Is the Worthless Corrupt EU?​   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/fourth-railway-accident-in-spain

​European farmers are extremely limited by regulations and can't compete with South America: EU and Mercosur countries sign landmark free trade deal   https://www.dw.com/en/eu-and-mercosur-countries-sign-landmark-free-trade-deal/a-75545794

Democrats Join Republicans In Voting The Clintons In Contempt Of Congress​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-join-republicans-voting-clintons-contempt-congress

Rep. Comer to Newsmax: DOJ Will Act If Clintons Held in Contempt​    https://www.newsmax.com/politics/james-comer-newsmax-doj/2026/01/21/id/1243064/

​  Obama's Fingerprints All Over Investigations Of Trump And Clinton

Obama invited Clinton—who would be formally nominated as the Democrats’ standard bearer three weeks later—aboard Air Force One to help launch her multicity campaign tour, during which he officially endorsed Clinton as his preferred White House successor. “I’m ready to pass the baton,” Obama declared, as he stumped for her for the first time.
​  Comey’s decision to remove the cloud of scandal over Clinton’s campaign, allowing the president to get on with the business of campaigning for her, is just one avenue of investigation the Justice Department is pursuing in wide-ranging probes whose targets include a figure largely unscathed by his era’s scandals: former President Barack Obama.
​  Attorney General Pam Bondi said prosecutors are investigating, among other things, “possible coordination between the Clinton campaign and the Obama administration to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.”​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/obamas-fingerprints-all-over-investigations-trump-and-clinton

Trump Sues JPMorgan And CEO Jamie Dimon For $5 Billion Over Alleged 'Political' Debanking​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-sues-jpmorgan-and-ceo-jamie-dimon-5-billion-over-alleged-political-debanking

​Gold & Geopolitics looks at precious metals going hockey-stick. Wuzzit mean?:  The vertical phase   https://no01.substack.com/p/the-vertical-phase

Meet The Man Who Bought $1 Billion In Physical Silver Before The Rally​   https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/congrats-everyone-meet-man-who-bought-1billion-physical-silver-rally

​  Big counterparty risk, with internet as counterparty: Crypto takeaways from Davos: Politics and money collide
Crypto is shedding its illicit money image, but central bankers at the World Economic Forum in Davos 2026 warned it threatens monetary sovereignty.​   https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-takeaways-davos-politics-money-collide

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New Gig Economy Job: Train AI That Replaces You​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/new-gig-economy-job-train-ai-replaces-you

​  BREAKING: EPA Will Take ‘Next Step’ in Review of Fluoride in Drinking Water

Late Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it’s pushing forward in what it called an “accelerated review of public health risks from fluoride in drinking water.”​   https://www.themahareport.com/p/breaking-epa-will-take-next-step

​  America Officially Withdraws from the World Health Organization

With the Pandemic Treaty in place, the Gates Foundation and GAVI now fill the power vacuum as top funders — putting WHO member states in danger.​   https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/america-officially-withdraws-from

​How? Newsom Announces California Will Remain In WHO Despite US Withdrawal​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/newsom-announces-california-will-remain-who-despite-us-withdrawal

​   4,000,000 premature deaths linked to 2,400 nuclear tests over seven decades
The findings highlight a global health crisis characterized by secrecy and a lack of accountability from nuclear-armed nations.​   https://interestingengineering.com/health/nuclear-testing-4-million-premature-deaths

​  I'm not sure it means what he thinks it means. Sasha Latypova, Trump at Davos: "Covid" was a military operation. "Dust" [chemical weapons] was used. - I told you so in 2022. Trump tells you now in 2026. Will freedom experts admit they mislead you into "public health mistakes" and "wrong science"?   https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/trump-at-davos-covid-was-a-dust-chemical

  The test for DNA could not detect DNA:RNA hybrids, which was known.  New Study Reveals WHY Regulators Missed the DNA Contamination in mRNA Vaccines -  The answer was hiding in plain sight—and it explains everything.  https://covidreason.substack.com/p/breaking-new-study-reveals-why-regulators

Texas AG Starts Investigation Into Vaccine-Related Financial Incentives​   https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/texas-ag-starts-investigation-vaccine-related-financial-incentives

​  Can we be trusted with nuclear fusion power?  Billion-times more efficient nuclear fusion could be unlocked with low-frequency lasers

These theoretical findings provide a roadmap for utilizing next-generation high-intensity laser facilities.​   https://interestingengineering.com/energy/billion-times-more-efficient-fusion

​Using Hand Tools (pictured clearing okra row between freezes)