Politics Chases Reality

 Analysts,

  Gilbert Doctorow:  The mysterious ways of Donald J. Trump

  Last night’s and this morning’s lead stories on the BBC and CNN focused on the latest public statement by Donald Trump that he does not exclude use of military force or economic pressure to take back American control of the Panama Canal and to take possession of Greenland over objections from fellow NATO member Denmark, to whom the world’s biggest island belongs. He claimed that both acquisitions were necessary to further American economic security.
  A moment later in these same broadcasts, we are told about Trump’s expressing his ‘understanding’ of Russian concerns over expansion of NATO to Ukraine going back to 2008 and his rebuke to Joe Biden for having restored the issue of NATO membership during his presidency and pursued it to spite Moscow. The news presenters also point to Trump’s revised timetable for ending the conflict in Ukraine from the 24 hours he claimed during his electoral campaign to a period of six months set out today...

..Let us try to make sense of it all, if we assume that strategic logic is to be found in the thinking processes of Donald Trump. I freely admit that this assumption is risky...

..I only can say that we must sit and wait to see what were his intentions behind his appointments and whether his logic prevails.

  So it is with his latest statements about Greenland and the Panama Canal, on the one hand, and about the Russia-Ukraine war on the other. The logic I see is that a bellicose stand on produced-to-order conflicts that can be solved at little cost to Washington, the proverbial kicking ass that Ronald Reagan practiced to great effect, is intended to provide cover for what otherwise would look like a humiliating defeat for Washington should it cut military aid to Kiev and stand by passively while the Kremlin imposes capitulation on the Zelensky regime.
  Indeed, from the statement in response to Trump issued by the Prime Minister of Denmark, it would appear that he has already won that contest without having to send an aircraft carrier detachment to the Jutland coast: she said that it is up to the people of Greenland to decide their future. Up to the 56,000 inhabitants to decide their own future, given that Trump can offer them riches beyond their imagination to get their consent at the ballot box?   https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/01/08/the-mysterious-ways-of-donald-j-trump/

  Moon of Alabama,  To Avoid Fighting Large Conflicts Trump Is Creating Smaller Ones

Yesterday, during a media event, president-elect Donald Trump held one of his typical ramblings (video, transcript) which jump from issue to issue without any connecting lines.
  It was mostly about his plans for his upcoming reign. He promised more tax relief for the rich, repelling environmental regulations and an increase in oil and gas production.

  But what caught the minds of most observers were his ideas on foreign policy.
Trump is rejecting to further raise conflicts with the most obvious 'enemies' - Russia, China and Iran. He is instead diverting the public by providing new targets - Canada, Greenland and Panama.   https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/to-avoid-fighting-large-conflicts-trump-is-creating-smaller-ones.html#more

  What Is The Economic Value Of Greenland And Why Does Trump Want It So Badly?

Of course the truth is that it all comes down to natural resources.
  In particular, Greenland has lots and lots of oil.
According to Wikipedia, Greenland “has some of the world’s largest remaining oil resources”…
  Some geologists believe Greenland has some of the world’s largest remaining oil resources:[30] in 2001, the U.S. Geological Survey found that the waters off north-eastern Greenland (north and south of the Arctic Circle) could contain up to 110 billion barrels (17×109 m3) of oil,[31] and in 2010 the British petrochemical company Cairns Oil reported “the first firm indications” of commercially viable oil deposits.[32]...
..And it also turns out that the Chinese are very interested in the rare-earth elements that are buried under the dirt in Greenland.  In fact, one particular area of Greenland is “home to one of the world’s largest undeveloped deposits of rare-earth elements outside of China”.   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/what-economic-value-greenland-and-why-does-trump-want-it-so-badly

Greenland: Environment and Mineral Resources   https://natur.gl/guidance/miljoe/?lang=en

  The $US is slipping as global reserve currency, which allows the financial empire to extract value from the rest of the world. All the oil, especially Saudi oil, being sold for $US was good collateral, but is now called into question. The Bank of England, and other City of London financial interests, like BlackRock, were heavily "invested" in overthrowing Russia and stripping Russian assets again, like the good-old-days of the 1990s. That didn't work out at all, and their "holdings in Ukraine", rich farmland, gas, coal and lithium deposits, are "unrecognized losses" due to now being located in Russia. Trump said, and is to be believed, that he will play hardball to keep the $US as global reserve currency, because it is the basis of the entire western financial system, which is the current form of colonization and wealth extraction in the world. Can he save London and BlackRock?

  I think Trump was going for a disorienting shock-effect when he talked about taking Canada as a US state, but he probably wants to mark "his" territory against Chinese organized crime, which is suddenly very powerful there. He is also warning China away from the Panama Canal.

  Gilbert Doctorow asks the trick-question:  How long can an EU member state survive without a government?

  Colonel Macgregor is counting on an electoral victory by the hard right opposition party, Alternativ fuer Deutschland (AfD) across the whole Bundesrepublik and not just in those states, mostly in the East, which have been the bases of the party’s support. However, I believe such an outcome is highly unlikely. What is more likely is a new grand coalition of the centrist parties which may even include Olaf Scholz in some ministerial post where he can do no harm. And if the CDU boss Friedrich Merz should become chancellor, we can expect ever closer German support for NATO and still more equipment and financial aid to Ukraine.

  For its part, Emanuel Macron’s France has similar woes that were imposed on it when the president called a snap election in July which he subsequently lost. The premier he then installed was unable to pass a budget through parliament and his government eventually lost a no-confidence vote, the first such instance in many decades.  Macron’s latest choice for premier may very possibly experience the same fate, and the political instability, the mounting debt crisis may bring down Macron himself. In these conditions of uncertainty and unsustainable negative budgets, the interest payable on French state bonds recently rose above those of Greece. If this continues, Macron will be forced out of office by the bankers, not by the people, who mostly loathe him but can do little about it. Should this happen, then there will have to be new presidential elections and one cannot exclude the possibility that Marine Le Pen’s hard right Rassemblement National party will take power. That would challenge the geopolitical orientation of the Union, but by itself might not yet sober up Europe. And yet, I would not place a firm bet on Le Pen: ever since 2012, the CIA has effectively stage managed French presidential elections to eliminate the powerful candidates who were outside the U.S. orbit and to ensure a succession of pitiful incompetents taking possession of the Élysée Palace.

​  Please note that neither of the aforementioned EU states has faced a government crisis rivaling that of Belgium about which no one seems to take notice...   In fact, the last parliamentary elections in Belgium which were held in June 2024 resulted in no ready coalitions possessing the votes to command a majority in parliament...  Bart de Wever, head of the Flemish nationalist party N-VA, has until the end of this month to break the deadlock and assume the reins of power. There are many who expect him to fail...   Belgium is the all-time worldwide winner for length of time without a fully functional government. They made the record back in 2018-2020, when there was no proper government for 652 days...

..The lesson to be learned from the Belgian experience is that it will take a much more profound crisis to bring the European Union to collapse, or just to sweep aside the awful elites who are in power in 25 of the Member States (I exclude Slovakia and Hungary).  Even a total collapse of Ukraine under pressure from Russian armed forces may not do the trick; the Europeans may perversely just double down on their subservience to Washington and reliance on NATO for their defense.​   https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/01/08/how-long-can-an-eu-member-state-survive-without-a-government/

​Mike Mihajlovic explains the high-tech physics of this hypersonic weapons-system.   Oreshnik's Warhead - 'Volcano Maker'                                                                      Thoughts about the Oreshnik's warhead design and composition   https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/oreshniks-warhead-volcano-maker-i

​  Netanyahu will be arrested if he comes to Auschwitz memorial, Polish government confirms
Education Minister Yoav Kisch will be the only representative at the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27.​   https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/benjamin-netanyahu/article-834302

  After Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, the Pentagon attacks Yemen, by Thierry Meyssan
It is a race against time that the Pentagon has started before President Donald Trump takes office. After destroying Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, it is launching its men against Yemen.   https://www.voltairenet.org/article221661.html

  The Race Is On Between West And East For Control In Syria, Simon Watkins

The removal of Bashar al-Assad has reignited Western and Eastern plans to control Syria’s oil and gas resources.
  Syria's strategic position plays a pivotal role in Russian and Chinese plans, including Russia's "Shia Crescent" strategy and China's Belt and Road Initiative.
The U.S., Turkey, and other players are positioning themselves to rebuild Syria’s energy infrastructure.   https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Race-Is-On-Between-West-And-East-For-Control-In-Syria.html

  One snippet from Simplicius:  Israel's rising threat, Ukraine revelations, and the 'Age of Anti-Westphalian DarkMaga'

Most interesting was an adjacent ‘news’ yesterday stating Iran had a secret new deal with Turkey to smuggle weapons to Hezbollah. Keep in mind this is completely uncorroborated and unsourced, and should therefore be taken with a huge grain of salt. But if there’s even a remote glint of truth to this, then Israel’s in deeper schmutz than it had imagined, and would also mean that Iran and Hezbollah have not been weakened at all.   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/medley-report-israels-rising-threat

Chris Hedges: Genocide — The New Normal​    

This will be a Hobbesian world where nations that have the most advanced industrial weapons make the rules. Those who are poor and vulnerable will kneel in subjugation.

​  Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza.
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
​  This is a permanent, endless war designed not to destroy Hamas, or free Israeli hostages, but to eradicate, once and for all, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
It is the final push to create a Greater Israel, which will include not only Gaza and the West Bank, but chunks of Lebanon and Syria. It is the culmination of the Zionist dream. And it will be paid for with rivers of blood — Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian.
​  Minister of Agriculture and Food Security of Israel Avi Dichter was probably offering conservative estimates when he said:
“I think that we are going to stay in Gaza for a long time. I think most people understand that [Israel] will be years in some kind of West Bank situation where you go in and out and maybe you remain along Netzarim [corridor].”
​  Mass extermination takes time. It is also expensive.
​  Fortunately for Israel, its lobby in the U.S. has a stranglehold on Congress, our electoral process and the media narrative. Americans, although 61 percent support ending weapons shipments to Israel, will pay for it.​   https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/07/chris-hedges-genocide-the-new-normal/

​  Israel to locally produce heavy bombs, reducing reliance on US after shipment holdup
Elbit Systems also contracted to establish manufacturing plant for raw materials, in deals worth $275 million; Israel hopes to reach ‘full independence’ in munitions manufacturing​   https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-to-locally-produce-heavy-bombs-reducing-reliance-on-us-after-shipment-holdup/

​  Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza, including 7 children
At least five strikes targeted parts of Khan Younis, including one in the Al-Mawasi area where thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in tents​   https://www.newarab.com/news/israeli-strikes-kill-dozens-gaza-including-7-children

​  Chile lawyers demand arrest of Israeli soldier over Gaza war crimes

At least 620 attorneys in Chile have sought the arrest of a discharged Israeli soldier from Battalion 749 for his role in crimes against humanity and genocide during the war on Gaza, local media reported.
​  Saar Hirshoren is now traveling in the South American country, and, according to the complaint, was involved in the deliberate destruction of "residential neighborhoods, cultural sites and essential facilities in Gaza, committing inhumane, cruel and degrading acts, causing ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of the population."
​  The lawsuit was supported by testimony from a Palestinian lady residing in Chile, whose family members had been victims of Israeli aggression in Gaza.
​  Lawyer and former Chilean ambassador Nelson Haddad stressed Friday that the complaint was made in order to ensure an investigation takes place and "as a preventive measure, the immediate arrest of this Israeli soldier is carried out so that he can be held accountable for the crimes committed and take responsibility before international criminal justice."
​  At a news conference, Haddad stated that the arrest must occur "before the imminent escape attempt".​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/chile-lawyers-demand-arrest-of-israeli-soldier-over-gaza-war

  Deep-State no-like:  Senate Democrats Throw a Big Wrench in Tulsi Gabbard's Confirmation Hearing

Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, is balking at the idea of holding a hearing for Gabbard early next week.
  “Warner has pointed out that the committee has not yet received Gabbard’s FBI background check, ethics disclosure or a pre-hearing questionnaire, a source familiar with the matter told us. Committee rules require the background check a week in advance of a hearing,” the news outlet said...

..A  source working with Gabbard told Axios that she completed her background check process last week and has an active security clearance.

Further, she submitted an initial pre-hearing questionnaire already and will have a second one in on time by a Thursday deadline, the source said.

Gabbard currently is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves. The combat veteran also did stints on the Homeland Security, the Armed Services, and the Foreign Affairs Committees, while a member of Congress from 2013 to 2021.   https://www.westernjournal.com/senate-democrats-throw-big-wrench-tulsi-gabbards-confirmation-hearing/

Is he legally competent?  Biden Confirms He's Considering Preemptive Pardons   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-confirms-hes-considering-preemptive-pardons

  Meryl Nass MD,  Five Big Problems with the UN Cybercrime Treaty/ Center for Family and Human Rights

And links to two more articles detailing troubling features of the treaty, particularly regarding sexualization of children

 ​  I just now became aware of this report on the treaty that is worth knowing about: how a treaty to allegedly prevent cybercrimes actually redefines certain highly questionable behaviors that most thought of as crimes, such as pedophilia and child pornography, so they are no longer crimes!   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/five-big-problems-with-the-un-cybercrime

​  Meryl Nass MD,  Very interesting article delves into the mechanics of the UK's psychological warfare contractors

We need to grasp the broad insidious nature of the ways we were manipulated and forced to comply--and harm ourselves​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/very-interesting-article-delves-into

​  Meryl Nass MD calls Kiwis to Rise Up!  New Zealanders: sign the referendum to Exit the WHO. Join with others in a new organization

Turn Jacinda Ardern's legacy around. Don't adopt WHO-based domestic laws either!​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/new-zealanders-sign-the-referendum

FDA Updates Warnings on RSV Vaccines Abrysvo and Arexvy Due to Guillain-Barré Syndrome Risk​   https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/fda-updates-warnings-on-rsv-vaccines-abrysvo-and-arexvy-due-to-guillain-barre-syndrome-risk-80f02046

​  I worked with ​Josh Green​ MD in North Kohala, where he would do ER shifts, from 2008-2013. He was pretty good, ​elected as a State Senator then. Josh really liked doing ​deals. Josh got tied into promoting the cyber-city project on Maui, ​and he has been looking bad in all his ​post-Lahaina pictures. Josh Green​ MD ​may be owned by the ​globo-cap mob these days.  Physician governor urges Capitol Hill to block RFK Jr.'s confirmation: 'Our children's lives depend on it'​ 
  The Democratic governor penned an op-ed published in The New York Times on Tuesday, continuing to drill at Kennedy's anti-vaccine efforts in 2019 amid Samoa's measles outbreak. According to Greene, Kennedy "used misinformation to scare all the people of Samoa away from being vaccinated" and served to "torpedo" the country's vaccination efforts. "Too much depends on our commitment to truth and the lifesaving power of vaccines to entrust Mr. Kennedy with the direction of these programs. Our children’s lives depend on it," Green wrote.    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/physician-governor-capitol-hill-rfk-confirmation

​  RFK Jr. and the Samoan Measles Outbreak

​  When the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Health and Human Services Secretary comes before the Senate, the specter of the Samoan measles outbreak of 2019 will dramatically be invoked to challenge him. Kennedy’s critics have repeatedly relied on this topic, citing stories that claim he was responsible for an epidemic in 2019 that caused at least 83 children to die due to vaccine hesitancy...
..The most convenient and generally accepted explanations of the outbreak claim the epidemic was the result of vaccine hesitancy, causing the population to be under-vaccinated. Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) vaccination rates were reportedly low due to the deaths of two infants given improperly formulated injections in Samoa a year earlier...​ However, the Samoan Government Health Ministry reported (p. 9) in June 2019 — three months before the measles outbreak began — that 80% of 12-month-old babies had received the MMR vaccine.​..

..No deaths from measles have occurred in the U.S. in the last five years. From October through December of 2019, 1.5% of Samoan children with the disease died — over one in a hundred — at a minimum, tenfold more deaths than any previous outbreak in recent years...

​..Edwin Tamasese, a health advocate who questioned Samoan government policies during the outbreak, gave Kennedy some insight into what was happening. Tamasese was concerned about the number of sick and dying Samoan children and began to assist families whose children were severely ill... In an interview after the outbreak subsided, he said, “We were very careful to take statistics when we were going in to try to identify trends. When we assessed our numbers, 98 percent of those who were getting ill had been vaccinated consistently six to seven days prior to illness. The excuse was that the vaccine did not have time to become effective. However, according to an immunologist on the team, the six to seven-day period was also the length of time it would take an under-attenuated vaccine to make the recipient sick.”

​  The MMR vaccine is a live, attenuated vaccine that contains weakened live strains of measles, mumps, and rubella (German measles).
Doctors in hospitals also reported that the very ill and dying children did not have symptoms consistent with normal cases of measles. When the outbreak began, blood from the first thirty-nine cases had been sent to Australia; only seven samples were positive for measles...
..Neighboring Pacific island countries, Tonga and Fiji, which had concurrent outbreaks of the virus — and had a different source of the measles vaccine — did not suffer the same dramatic mortality rates. This should have raised concerns, yet there hasn’t been an inquiry into why the Samoan government switched vaccine sourcing from India to Belgium midway through the crisis.
​  A renewed effort to vaccinate with this alternate supply began in the first week of December 2019; it was hailed as the reason the outbreak subsided. Measles vaccines take at least 10 days before creating an immune response. There has been no explanation for the data confirming that the onset of cases dropped dramatically two weeks before this vaccination drive could have had any effect.
The government response was not driven by factual analysis; the effort focused on promoting the vaccine and silencing those questioning authority...
..While worldwide attention on Samoa ignored dramatic inconsistencies, Kennedy was one of the few people who asked detailed and important questions. His views were marginalized; it was easier and politically correct to blame the tragedy on low rates of vaccination.​   https://brownstone.org/articles/rfk-jr-and-the-samoan-measles-outbreak/

​  Dr Ah Kahn Syed has this, The Killing Fields of Samoa,  What happened in Samoa in 2019 and why is it so important now?  from 11/19/2022

So why was the Samoan outbreak such a problem that it was reported worldwide while the Fiji/Tongan outbreaks were ignored? Well, kids were dying. A lot. ​              In fact, the death rate in the Samoan measles outbreak of November 2019 was 40 times the usual death rate for measles in developed countries...
..So there are two aspects to the devastating and fatal Samoa outbreak​:
Why did a measles outbreak occur in 3 neighbouring islands at the same time, just weeks after a delivery of UNICEF vaccines to those very islands?
Why did the death rate in the Samoan outbreak reach such high levels far in excess of what would be expected in a country with access to healthcare?...

..There is one piece of the puzzle of Samoa that has been bothering me. That is, why did a relatively vaccinated population manage to fare so badly with a measles outbreak? In order for that to happen it had to be an unusual strain. However, the official line was that the strain was a D8 strain, not a "vaccine-related A strain".
​  What has always niggled me is that I have not been able to find any genomic confirmation of the Samoa measles strain in Genbank. The only strain documented from 2019 is from Western Samoa, not Samoa. So how do we know that it was a “natural” measles strain? We don’t.​

​  Now comes the insidious bit. The bit that links the fact that there is emerging evidence that SARS-CoV-2 appeared before December 2019.
​  Imagine that the world’s worst psychopaths (that is, gain-of-function virologists were to create a chimaera of one of the most infectious viruses known to man (aka measles) and SARS-Cov-2. Well they did it, and I've been banging on about it for a year. It's this little gem...That’s right. A measles-SARS-CoV-2 chimera. The measles component is supposedly taken from this paper and uses a construct from Roberto Cattaneo (Genbank MH144178) published in 2015. So, why would they use this one?.​...

​..The publication is marked Dec 2020 but it was submitted in July 2020 and included mice studies, which usually take months. It’s therefore very possible - and entirely in keeping with Baric’s MO - that this construct was made before December 2019.​..
​..Now, that strain is supposed to be an inactive strain A measles. The only problem is that, when we run a BLAST on this strain (or on the Chimera) we get a pretty good match to a D8 strain measles​...

..So… here we have a very unusual set of circumstances. Let me recap:
​  An unusually virulent measles outbreak occurs in 3 neighbouring Pacific islands after delivery of a vaccine from UNICEF
On one of the islands, the death rate of the outbreak is unusually high (and of the order of magnitude of the first COVID wave)
​  The outbreak is used to test the compliance of the population for lockdowns and forced vaccinations. There is very little resistance.
Around the time of this outbreak, Ralph Baric - implicated in the origin of SARS-Cov-2 - is involved in the construction4 of an unusual measles-coronavirus chimera in which the measles component is homologous to strain D8 measles (the strain declared in Samoa).
​  When Samoa gets its first official wave of COVID infections there are no deaths suggesting a prior immunity.​   https://www.arkmedic.info/p/the-killing-fields-of-samoa

​  Study of 9 Million Exposes DEVASTATING Neurological Damage Surge Among Covid-Vaccinated
An explosive new study involving almost 9 million participants has exposed a devastating surge in deadly neurological and psychiatric damage among those who received Covid mRNA “vaccines.”​   https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/study-of-9-million-exposes-devastating

​  Steve Kirsch,  Pfizer's secret documents reveal that their COVID vaccine actually made you 8.7% more likely to get COVID

Buried in the documents that Pfizer wanted hidden from public view for 75 years there was a table that revealed that their vaccine actually had negative efficacy.​   https://kirschsubstack.com/p/pfizers-secret-documents-reveal-that

  Physicist, Josh Mitteldorf has this tale of intrigue:  Cold Fusion is a suppressed technology

  Out of town for the weekend, Pons got a panicked phone call from his student. The glassware was shattered; the lab table had been destroyed; and there was a hole in the concrete floor of the laboratory, where the experiment seemed to have melted through.
  Both professors rushed home and met in the lab. They became convinced in that moment that “cold fusion” is real. There is no chemical reaction in the world that could generate that kind of damage from a tiny chip of metal, 1/16 of a cubic inch. It had to be nuclear.   https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/cold-fusion-is-a-suppressed-technology

​  More from Physicist, Josh Mitteldorf,. Do recall how colonial power elites used their control of industry and global trade to enslave their colonies and also their subjects.   

What is a ‘Breakaway Civilization’?​  technologies of the future, here in the present​  

​  Richard Dolan was first to use the phrase, though I first heard it from Jason Jorjani. The idea is that there are whole communities built on technology far advanced from what is in the public domain. They are somewhere on this planet — perhaps in underground cities, perhaps under the ocean or Antarctica. It is the world’s biggest secret.​   https://mitteldorf.substack.com/p/what-is-a-breakaway-civilization

  ​Inhabited for thousands of years until the 1920s.  Turkey's underground city of 20,000 people

​  The ancient city of Elengubu, known today as Derinkuyu, burrows more than 85m below the Earth's surface, encompassing 18 levels of tunnels. The largest excavated underground city in the world, it was in near-constant use for thousands of years, changing hands from the Phrygians to the Persians to the Christians of the Byzantine Era. It was finally abandoned in the 1920s by the Cappadocian Greeks when they faced defeat during the Greco-Turkish war and fled abruptly en masse to Greece.​   https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220810-derinkuyu-turkeys-underground-city-of-20000-people

  ​The 12,000 year disaster cycle, based upon recurring galactic space weather-conditions rocking our planetary boat, which is due to return in 11-22 years or so. The first 3 videos take less than 20 minutes to watch. An underground city would be a good place to stay if it would avoid flooding.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2decDcEJqo&list=PLHSoxioQtwZcVcFC85TxEEiirgfXwhfsw

  This 3 part series from The Ethical Skeptic looks at the effects of the last episode of bad space weather 12,000 years ago, positing that the Egyptian pyramids were built prior to that, and display evidence of the events.  Master Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling – Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Theory

​  We propose that the unique features observed on the Khufu and, most notably, the Khafre Pyramids indicate a prolonged period of oceanic displacement, lasting between 50 and 200 years, that submerged the Giza Plateau in antiquity. This inundation reached a height of 576 feet above current sea level, leaving a distinctive ocean water karst erosion band near the top of the Khafre Pyramid. The sustained and stable nature of this inundation strongly suggests that it was caused by a change in the georotational dynamics of the Earth sometime within the last fourteen millennia. This constitutes ‘dead body’ evidence, and it must be addressed.​   https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/05/23/master-exothermic-core-mantle-decoupling-dzhanibekov-oscillation-theory/

​Surface Dwelling Human (pictured closer-up in post freeze tomato-less garden)

Anothe One Bites The Dust

 Witnessing History,

  Simplicius engages the meme of cascading global political transformation.  Another One Down: Anti-Globalist Maelstrom Sweeps Away Trudeau as Larger Storm Looms

​It simply cannot be swept under the rug or sugar-coated any longer: the Western order is in literal crisis. The people have had enough, and the avalanche is picking up inertia because the process is a self-reinforcing feedback loop: the more wanton elites fall, the more that citizens are energized to rise up against them. And when that happens, the elites are forced to clamp and double down on their lies, hypocrisy, and repressions in a futile attempt to stem the flow; this leads to even more ill-will, resentment, and revolt against their destructive policies...

..For all his faults, we must admit what Elon Musk has been doing on social media of late is a brilliant and revolutionary sally against globalist forces in this vein. For those in the dark, Musk has been on an absolute tear on his X platform against all the establishment figureheads of Europe—namely Starmer in the UK and Scholz in Germany.
  Musk has called them to task in a way that’s actually moving the needle politically, not only because of the nature of the X platform’s monumental reach, but for an even more important reason. It is something I’ve highlighted repeatedly here: the globalist apparatus of control is designed to appear like an impenetrable iron curtain, but is in reality a gossamer thing, fragile to the touch, existing entirely through sheer dint and din of fear used as an oppressive prod to keep us from raising our voices. But what Musk has done is simply shown that if you call them out loudly, they begin to wither and wilt, not to say panic—which is what they’re currently doing...
..It’s a difficult concept to grasp at first: that the elites’ entire paradigm of control over us is in actuality a fragile mental prison, and that we’re cowed into submission merely through their regime of fear-propaganda. But once the first loud voice bellows his defiance to the warders, the rest of the slaves quickly take notice that there’s not as much to fear as they thought, that those in charge are more vulnerable than they put on... In short: he’s making it “okay” to speak up and resist, and that’s a powerful memetic catalyst...
..Now Musk has scheduled a pivotal interview with the AfD’s Alice Weidel that’s already being hailed as driving major influence toward the ascendant party...

​..It’s all generating intense discussion throughout Europe, which is opening sutures the elites desperately wanted to keep buttoned up. You can feel the global changes on the wind, the unexpected fresh energy that Trump has brought has stirred things up, thrown the establishment into disarray.​.. Trump’s seeming tongue-in-cheek forays against Greenland have generated shocking reverberations... Weeks after Trump ribbed Canada about becoming the 51st state, Trudeau is packing his bags, and Trump immediately signaled an unexpected doubling down on his earlier proposal...

..As bonkers as this all may seem, it merely proves the point that global currents are truly in flux, the brash debutantes are taking advantage of this historical rift where the power balances have been thrown off, global institutions of order are in retrograde, and now it feels like anything and everything is up for grabs; wilted power structures lie paralyzed from their rebuffs, and incapable of keeping order... Those who follow the Fourth Turning theory know it explains events well, which I’ve previously enlarged on here. The short of it is that a predicted 20-25 year-long ‘crisis period’—or fourth turning—is set to take us to roughly 2030, which should culminate in some kind of grand climax, perhaps a war or system reset.​

​  For now we watch and wait for the next pieces to fall. On the docket appears to be Austria, with the empire in tatters over the FPO’s ‘right wing, pro-Putin’ figure Herbert Kickl’s ascendance... Kickl’s FPÖ won the latest elections, and is one of Europe’s up-and-coming far-right parties​. Two “right-wing” resistance sphere, Putin apologists with Orban in Hungary and Kickl in Austria, you say?​ ... Watch out Ukraine, here comes the Hungaro-Austrian Empire!   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/another-one-down-anti-globalist-maelstrom

​  N​ow we ALL have to watch it.  EU commission threatens Musk ahead of interview with conservative leader

The European Commission warns it will take action If Elon Musk's conversation with Alice Weidel gains above-average visibility on X​   https://rmx.news/germany/eu-commission-threatens-musk-ahead-of-interview-with-conservative-leader/

​  ‘The firewall will not last!’ — Weidel defiant as AfD hits highest polling in a year ahead of Germany’s election next month
A new poll shows the AfD surging to 21.5% — its highest vote share in a year — with just weeks until Germany's hotly contested federal elections​   https://rmx.news/article/the-firewall-will-not-last-weidel-defiant-as-afd-hits-highest-polling-in-a-year-ahead-of-next-months-election/

​  Maybe take some lithium twice a day Donald?  President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he would not rule out the possibility of using military force to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland, emphasizing their strategic significance to U.S. national security.   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-not-ruling-out-using-military-force-reclaim-panama-canal-greenland

God's chosen one with a nicked right ear. Ugh!   Preemptive Strikes On Iran Will Be A 'Real Possibility' Under Trump: Officials​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/preemptive-strikes-iran-will-be-real-possibility-under-trump-officials

​  Stand and be counted on this moral issue.   Senate Democrats Consider Support For RFK Jr. As Health Secretary Amid Controversy

​  Despite considerable backlash from many in the Democratic Party due to Kennedy's controversial views on vaccinations, a few Senate Democrats are reportedly keeping an open mind about voting for him. Senators Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and John Fetterman (D-PA) may throw support behind Kennedy, according to The Hill. They share Kennedy's criticisms of heavy corporate influence over the food industry and advocate for a shift towards less chemical-laden approaches in America...

..The nomination has placed Democrats in a difficult position. Many spent the last election distancing themselves from Kennedy after his switch from the Independent party, wary of his ability to draw third-party support that could impact general election outcomes. His nomination by Trump has forced them to reassess their stance, especially as Kennedy reemerges in the political spotlight.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/senate-democrats-consider-support-rfk-jr-health-secretary-amid-controversy

  ​Fingers in the political wind?  The INSIDIOUS Anthony Fauci mass-murdered HUNDREDS of orphans to help Big Pharma test and market new drugs, according to RFK Jr. and a BBC film   https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-01-06-insidious-tony-fauci-murdered-orphans-big-pharma.html

Bet the Whole Stack on Red!  (right?) Trump backs massive single bill for taxes, border and energy   https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-backs-massive-single-bill-031431700.html

​Is the CIA on this Bandwagon​?:  'Fact-Checkers Too Politically-Biased' - Zuckerberg Abandons Facebook Censorship For X-Like Community Notes​   https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/zuckerberg-nukes-facebook-fact-checkers-favor-community-notes-following-musks-lead-x

Another DEI-mino Falls: McDonald's Latest To Bail On Diversity Goals​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/another-dei-mino-falls-mcdonalds-latest-bail-diversity-goals

  ​Charles Hugh Smith,  I Quit! The Tsunami of Burnout Few See

That's the problem with deploying play-acting as "solutions:" play-acting doesn't actually fix the problems at the source, it simply lets the problems run to failure.​   https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/i-quit-the-tsunami-of-burnout-few

​God created Bannon to keep Musk humble  ;-)   Bannon Goes Off On Musk Over "Social Credit Score" Changes On X   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bannon-goes-musk-over-social-credit-score-changes-x

Emmanuel Macron joins growing criticism of Elon Musk in Europe​  French president accuses world’s richest man of intervening directly in continent’s democratic processes​  https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/06/emmanuel-macron-joins-growing-criticism-elon-musk-europe

​  ‘Special Relationship’ Between UK and US Under Threat Due to Musk’s ‘Incendiary’ Rhetoric on Grooming Gangs
According to BBC Newsnight, there is “absolute horror at the highest levels of government at the incendiary language we have seen from Elon Musk.”

​  Apparently, there’s little ‘horror’ at the industrial-scale grooming and rape of young white girls by Muslim men, and the biggest outrage is directed at Elon Musk for daring to talk about it.​   https://modernity.news/2025/01/07/special-relationship-between-uk-and-us-under-threat-due-to-musks-incendiary-rhetoric-on-grooming-gangs/

  ​The "Beeb":  Starmer attacks those 'spreading lies' on grooming gangs

The prime minister has attacked politicians and activists "spreading lies and misinformation" over grooming gangs.
​  It comes after multi-billionaire Elon Musk accused Sir Keir Starmer of being "complicit in the rape of Britain" during his tenure as director of public prosecutions (DPP) between 2008 and 2013, for failing to tackle grooming gangs.
Alongside Musk's comments, senior Conservatives and Reform UK MPs have also spent the week calling for a national inquiry into child sexual exploitation.
But Sir Keir accused opposition MPs of "jumping on a bandwagon" and "amplifying what the far-right is saying" to gain attention.

Sir Keir said Labour was addressing child sexual abuse after Conservative inaction "for 14 long years".
Online debate around grooming gangs had now "crossed a line", resulting in threats against MPs, including Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips, he said.
"We have seen this playbook many times - whipping up of intimidation and of threats of violence, hoping that the media will amplify it," Sir Keir said.
"Those who are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims, they're interested in themselves," he added.​   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75wp53vk1lo

Migrants 3.5 Times More Likely to Be Arrested For Sex Crimes in UK Than British Citizens​  In some areas, figure is over 50 per cent.​   https://modernity.news/2025/01/06/migrants-3-5-times-more-likely-to-be-arrested-for-sex-crimes-in-uk-than-british-citizens/

​  UK navy ‘gang bangs’ exposed by whistleblower – media​   “We had a rape list on my submarine,” an insider has told the paper

​British Royal Navy personnel have been accused of drug use and abusive behavior on board the nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard. The claims, published on Tuesday by the Daily Mail, stem from accounts provided by a whistleblower, who detailed incidents involving crew members.
​  The former member of the submarine’s crew alleged that some sailors engaged in “gang bangs” while on duty, and that “the lunatics are in charge at the asylum.”
“We had a rape list on my submarine. There was a 19-year-old kid [on it]. When he realised he was on it, he was s***ing his pants. Everyone wanted to rape him. He was petrified,” the whistleblower told the paper.​   https://www.rt.com/news/610220-british-royal-navy-drugs-accusations/

​Paul Craig Roberts arrives at the party.  The Despicable British Government Gave Immigrant-invaders the Right to Rape Underage British Girls   https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/01/06/the-despicable-british-government-gave-immigrant-invaders-the-right-to-rape-underage-british-girls/

Farmers' convoys head for Paris to restart protest movement​   https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/farmers-convoys-head-paris-restart-protest-movement-2025-01-05/

​  Orban and Fico have a new ally in the EU: far-right forces win mandate in Austria for the first time

​  Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen announced that he had given far-right leader Herbert Kickl a mandate to form a new government. This became known on January 6 after a meeting between the president and the leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), which won the elections.​   https://en.topcor.ru/55323-v-avstrii-mandat-vpervye-poluchajut-krajne-pravye-sily.html

​  Pfizergate: What is EC Chief Von Der Leyen Accused of?​ 

In 2022, US media reported that von der Leyen had communicated with Albert Bourla, chief executive of the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, about clinching a long-term contract to purchase 1.8 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines worth €35 billion ($37.6 billion), even before they passed clinical trials.
​  Negotiations on the deal were conducted informally in late 2020 via SMS messages and without prior consent of EU member states.
The European Commission President also texted her husband, Heiko von der Leyen, who serves as the medical director at Orgenesis, a company that collaborates with Pfizer. ​ All the messages were then accidentally deleted, Ursula von der Leyen claimed.​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250106/pfizergate-what-is-ec-chief-von-der-leyen-accused-of-1121367442.html

​  Good Germans must disarm bad Germans?  Germany’s gun grab? Saxony-Anhalt begins disarming AfD members
AfD members in many German states are stripped of many of their rights, including the right to privacy and lawful gun ownership​   https://rmx.news/article/germanys-gun-grab-saxony-anhalt-begins-disarming-afd-members/

​  Larry Johnson,  What Does Russia Mean by “Demilitarize and Denazify?”

​  When Donald Trump takes office on January 20, Ukraine’s military will be in worse shape and Russia will have captured more territory. The only way Trump can make good on his promise to end the war in Ukraine is to terminate all aid and withdraw US military and intelligence personnel from Ukraine. Otherwise, the war will continue until Ukraine is no longer able to sustain combat operations.​   https://sonar21.com/what-does-russia-mean-by-demilitarize-and-denazify/

​  Die in the bitter cold or surrender?  TASS: After failed counterattacks in Kursk region, many Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers surrendered

Ukrainian servicemen deployed in the Kursk region, after a series of unsuccessful counterattacks in large groups, prefer to surrender to Russian forces.​   https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/7422009?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

​  Ukraine failed to gain territory in Kursk mini-offensive and Kellogg cancelled his visit. Lost Cause. Trump’s Ukraine aide postpones trip to Kiev – Reuters

Keith Kellogg will reportedly visit the city and other European capitals after the US president-elect’s January 20 inauguration​   https://swentr.site/news/610527-kellogg-ukraine-trip-postponed/

​Are these shiploads of equipment All for the American GIs? Any going for a Ukrainian offensive? Huge US Army movement: M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams and JLTVs in Poland​   https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/01/06/huge-us-army-movement-m1a2-sepv3-abrams-and-jltvs-in-poland/

​Remember that "BOE Still Needs World War Three":  "Smells Like A 'Truss Moment'" - UK Gilt Yields Hit 16 Year High, Stocks & Cable Tumble   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/smells-truss-moment-uk-gilt-yields-hit-16-year-high-stocks-cable-tumble

​  Andrew Korybko,  Lavrov Elaborated On Russia’s Approach To The Global Systemic Transition

​It envisages helping developing countries rebalance their relations with the West while avoiding the neocolonial pitfalls for the ‘green agenda’ that’s being weaponized as a ploy to entrap them...

​..A lot of Western wealth is derived from lopsided deals with the Global South, which is being exploited through neocolonialism. For example, only 2.6% of the US’ $2.5 billion worth of aid to Haiti after its 2010 earthquake reached companies and organizations there while the rest went into the pockets of American contractors. Another damning statistic that he cited is how African countries only get 10% of the global coffee industry’s profits...

​..The IMF and WTO have been politicized by the West in order to keep developing countries at a disadvantage. Despite high-sounding rhetoric on occasion, the West has yet to meaningfully reform these institutions and won’t ever do so willingly.​..

​..Putting everything together, Russia’s approach to the global systemic transition as elaborated by Lavrov envisages developing countries collectively reforming existing financial institutions while avoiding the neocolonial trap that the West is setting for them through its ‘green energy agenda’. The first will deprive the West of the wealth that it extracts from the latter, thus speeding up their long-overdue rebalancing, while the second will prevent any serious reversal on the progress that they make in this respect.
​  Any reduction in the West’s overall influence and power brought about by the aforementioned rebalancing will work to Russia’s advantage by weakening its rivals. They’ll correspondingly find it more difficult to destabilize Russia, wage proxy wars against it, and obstruct its Afro-Eurasian grand strategy. What’s good for the Global South is therefore naturally good for Russia, thus making them equally important for one another, and wider awareness of this should serve to further expand their ties.​   https://korybko.substack.com/p/lavrov-elaborated-on-russias-approach

Indonesia joins Brics as newest full member, Brazil foreign ministry says

Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy and the world’s fourth-most populous nation, has become the newest member of Brics.​   https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3293658/indonesia-joins-brics-newest-full-member-brazil-foreign-ministry-says

Dollar’s Share Of Global Reserves Hits 30-Year-Low As Central Banks Pile Into Gold, and Alternates​   https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/01/dollars-share-of-global-reserves-hits-30-year-low-as-central-banks-pile-into-gold-and-alternates/

With ​the CIA​s blessings, no doubt.  Ukraine To Be First European Country To Establish Diplomatic Ties With HTS-Led Syria​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-be-first-european-country-establish-diplomatic-ties-hts-led-syria

​  Iran has been very slow to reply militarily to the last Israeli attacks, but said they would at the right time.  Can True Promise III reshape Iran’s geopolitical fate?

A likely but for-now hypothetical military operation, True Promise III presents Iran with a critical opportunity to neutralize US and Israeli overreach in West Asia and secure a decisive settlement for its domestic challenges.​   https://thecradle.co/articles-id/28324

  He created some video evidence himself.  ​Vacationing IDF Soldier Flees Brazil As He's Pursued For Gaza 'War Crimes'

​  The court's move came in response to a complaint filed in Brazil by the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF). The pro-Palestinian group, named after a five-year-old girl said to have been killed by an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) tank firing on her family's car, had reportedly submitted substantial documentation to the court, including photos, videos, and geolocation identifiers. Taken together, they were offered as proof that IDF soldier Yuval Vagdani has placed explosives that were used to level "entire neighborhoods" in Gaza last November.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/vacationing-idf-soldier-flees-brazil-hes-pursued-gaza-war-crimes

​  Israeli soldiers face 50 global charges for Gaza crimes: Israeli media​  Global investigations into Israeli soldiers have been mounting following incriminating footage published documenting their involvement in war crimes in Gaza.​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-soldiers-face-50-global-charges-for-gaza-crimes--isr

Israeli army admits ambulance use in West Bank raid​   Surveillance footage showed Israeli soldiers exiting ambulance and firing at bystanders in Nablus​   https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/israeli-army-admits-ambulance-use-in-west-bank-raid-3696811

Breaking: Israeli prosecutor says state has no rape cases against Palestinians from 7/10 raid​   https://skwawkbox.org/2025/01/05/breaking-israeli-prosecutor-says-state-has-no-rape-cases-against-palestinians-from-7-10-raid/

​  Protests break out across Israel as thousands of Israelis demand Donald Trump steps in to 'end this f***ing war now', with fiery clash erupting between demonstrators and police

​  Tensions amongst large cohorts of the Israeli public had already reached boiling point over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the conflict, but the release of a new Hamas hostage video of 19-year-old Liri Albag has sparked fresh calls for his removal from power.
​  In the emotive video, Liri, who is the youngest remaining female captive held by Hamas, could be seen shaking and crying as she pleaded with Israeli authorities to do more to secure her and the other hostages a safe release.​   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14250507/tel-aviv-protests-israelis-donald-trump-war-clash-demonstrators-police.html

​  A new budget for the Israeli Foreign Ministry includes $150 million for what Israel calls “Hasbara,” or consciousness warfare. According to the Times of Israel, the new budget is a 20-fold increase from the previous spending level.​   https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/israel-to-surge-funding-for-global-influence-operations/

​  Palestinian human​-rights are ​"holocaust denial​", now, even for Israeli Jews.  Germany defunds 2 Israeli human rights groups

The German government has quietly cut funding for Zochrot and New Profile, following an earlier defunding of Palestinian NGOs. Some observers fear the move will shrink space for those critical of the Israeli government.​  https://www.dw.com/en/germany-defunds-2-israeli-human-rights-groups/a-71217628

​  The US is manufacturing doubt about Gaza’s famine​   

The Biden administration is attempting to foster a fake dispute over famine numbers in Gaza to obscure the reality of genocide.​  https://mondoweiss.net/2025/01/the-phony-dispute-about-famine-in-northern-gaza/

​  Victoria Australia’s Proposed Anti-protest Law a Fundamental Attack on Civil Liberties

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s announcement on December 17 of “strong action” supposedly needed “to fight hate” is a declaration of war against all supporters of free speech and the right to protest.
​   It is the latest in Victorian Labor’s attempt to repress the Pro-Palestine movement. In September, it authorised police to use excessive force against protesters during the anti-war protests at the Land Forces weapons’ conference.​   https://www.asia-pacificresearch.com/victoria-australia-proposed-anti-protest-law/5632542

​  Protesters gather in New York in support of Gaza hospital director​   [Israelis torture and murder their hostages.]

​The demonstrators, including health care workers, protested outside NYU Tisch Hospital to demand the release of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, who was detained last month.
​  They carried banners that said "Not another child, Not another hospital," "Gaza forever” and "We are sick from genocide.”
Abu Safiya was detained by Israeli forces along with others during a raid on the hospital on Dec. 27.​   https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/protesters-gather-in-new-york-in-support-of-gaza-hospital-director-3696810

​  The objective is to keep Syria full of desperate people.  Syria unable to import wheat or fuel due to US sanctions, trade minister says..

The US is set to announce an easing of restrictions on providing humanitarian aid and other basic services such as electricity to Syria while maintaining its strict sanctions regime, people briefed on the matter told Reuters on Monday.​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2585498/middle-east

US to 'ease restrictions' on Syria, keep sanctions in place: Report
​The US imposed the 'Caesar Sanctions' on Syria in 2019, crushing the country's economy and preventing reconstruction​   https://thecradle.co/articles/us-to-ease-restrictions-on-syria-keep-sanctions-in-place-report

​  HTS Terrorists Close Symbolic Church in Syrian Christian Town Sparking Fear and Controversy
CIA-MI6-Mossad-MIT terrorism is changing the face of Syria through violence, intimidation and ethnic cleansing

​  The Hagia Sophia Church in the northern Hama Syrian Christian town of Al Sqeilbiyyeh (also spelled As Suqalibiyah) has been closed by the terrorist gangs affiliated with the HTS Junta regime in Damascus.
​  The move comes after armed gangs set fire to the Christmas tree in the centre of Al Sqeilbiyyeh during Christmas celebrations. During the December attacks on Christian communities the same gangs had also entered the church and desecrated the icons, holy scriptures and stunning murals.​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/hts-close-symbolic-church-syrian-christian-town/5876561

​  More than 100 combatants were killed over the last two days in northern Syria in fighting between Turkish-backed groups and Syrian Kurdish forces, a war monitor said on Sunday.​   https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250105-syria-monitor-101-killed-in-battles-between-pro-turkey-kurdish-forces

Turkey’s carrier battlegroup takes shape​,  Turkey starts building aircraft carrier, destroyer and sub, underscoring great power ambitions in Middle East, beyond​   https://asiatimes.com/2025/01/turkeys-carrier-battlegroup-takes-shape/

​  North Korea's Kim says new hypersonic missile can deter Pacific 'rivals'

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said that a new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) his country tested Monday would help deter its enemies in the region — a veiled reference to the U.S., Japan and South Korea — state-run media reported Tuesday.​   https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/07/asia-pacific/north-korea-hypersonic-irbm/

​  Taiwan unleashes ramjet-driven hypersonic missile production​   

In a bold move that underscores its growing military prowess, Taiwan has officially rolled out its Qingtian hypersonic missile, a state-of-the-art weapon capable of striking targets over 2,000 kilometers away.​   https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/01/06/taiwan-unleashes-ramjet-driven-hypersonic-missile-production/

​  (​This phrase is like a declaration of war.)  "Never Accept This": Nippon Steel CEO Will Fight Biden's Blocked US Steel Deal

Japan's Nippon Steel CEO Eiji Hashimoto told reporters on Tuesday that President Joe Biden's decision to block its $14.9 billion acquisition of US Steel was politically motivated. Hashimoto added that the company would pursue legal action to salvage the deal.
​  "A review of the deal by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States was not properly conducted due to President Biden's illegal intervention," Hashimoto told reporters at a press conference in Tokyo, as quoted by Kyodo News. He emphasized: "We can never accept this."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/never-accept-nippon-steel-ceo-will-fight-bidens-blocked-us-steel-deal

​This is a really interesting case study in cutting out the rungs you just climbed up the ladder.  Why the U.S. Can’t Build Icebreaking Ships, Construction Physics   https://www.construction-physics.com/p/why-the-us-cant-build-icebreaking

  Meryl Nass MD,  WHO makes nice to US government in bid to avoid being cancelled by Trump,  Article dated December 24, 2024. Provides many reasons to leave the WHO.   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/who-makes-nice-to-us-government-in

  ​Meryl Nass MD,  Elderly, co-morbid Louisiana woman dies, allegedly of bird flu
STAT has no additional information on the patient. Even though the Privacy Act no longer applies after death, info on her age, co-morbidities and causes of death are being withheld​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/elderly-co-morbid-louisiana-woman

​  First US bird flu death announced in Louisiana
Health officials have said the person was older than 65, had underlying medical problems and had been in contact with sick and dead birds in a backyard flock. They also said a genetic analysis had suggested the bird flu virus had mutated inside the patient, which could have led to the more severe illness.​   https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3293663/first-us-bird-flu-death-reported-louisiana-state-health-officials-say

​Meryl Nass MD,  14 state Attorneys General write to Sec. Becerra asking why the CICP functions so poorly at adjudicating and compensating COVID vaccine victims   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/14-state-attorneys-general-write

Not Sick With Bird Flu (pictured in composted winter garden after removing frozen tomato plants.)