Senate Showdowns

 Interested Spectators,

  Senate hearings to approve or reject RFK Jr. as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence are a squaring-off between the interests of American citizens in their own health, security and human rights, as opposed to the interests of the "Blob" or "Military Industrial Complex", which includes big pharma, the NSA and Google these days.  The interests of the deep-state & friends are to have every control mechanism in place before most of us realize it, so that we will have no choice but to comply with their new-order or disappear.

  I kept watching little bits of the Kennedy hearings, which were for show, and I wonder what deals and threats have been made. It is opaque. I called my Senators' offices and respectfully requested that they vote to approve Kennedy to head HHS. I presume lists are made of that.  Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren attacked Kennedy hard, with disingenuous cheap shots. There were a lot of lies promulgated, as if true, and no clarifications permitted to Mr. Kennedy, on medical matters which I have researched.

  Kennedy will undergo further Senate hearings tomorrow, before the Senate can vote on his nomination.

Here is today's confirmation-hearing link:  https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/committee-hearings/live-robert-f-kennedy-jr-hhs-confirmation-hearing/

We don't mention the reason for the vaccine liability shield now. We assumed that we needed them all.  The 99th Congress That Called Vaccines “Unavoidably Unsafe”   https://brownstone.org/articles/the-99th-congress-that-called-vaccines-unavoidably-unsafe/

  Spartacus is back:  Spartacast 17

​  No part of COVID-19 was an accident. It was planned and premeditated, without a doubt. Go back and read Katherine Watt’s Legal Walls of the COVID-19 Kill Box, and then go read the Totality of Evidence timeline, as well as Political Moonshine’s timeline of the COVID-19 fraud construct. People still ask me, to this day, why I didn’t get the vaccine. They assume I’m going to drag out some anti-vaxxer boilerplate about how germs aren’t real or something like that. They’re very shocked and dismayed when I calmly explain to them that, given that SARS-CoV-2 very likely came from a laboratory and was very likely the product of NIH, USAID, and DOD grant funding to EcoHealth Alliance, that means the vaccines and the virus both came from the same funding source. It’s the same exact leprechaun’s pot of money.
​  Why do you think they were so desperate to cover up what happened in Wuhan? NIH funded EcoHealth Alliance to the tune of millions of dollars. They were also in patent disputes with Moderna over the matter of four hundred million dollars in unpaid royalties over NIH’s proline-stabilized Spike technique. The NIH are fiscally responsible for both the virus and the vaccine.​   https://iceni.substack.com/p/spartacast-17

  ​The business of making food and medicines be like cigarettes:  A Midwestern Doctor,  Who's Trying to Stop America From Being Healthy Again?

Untangling the century of dark industry tactics that have poisoned the health of America​   https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/whos-trying-to-stop-america-from

  ​Celia Farber,  Globalist Pharma Axis Pulls Out All Stops Against RFK Jr.—Caroline Kennedy Joins Her Son In Seeming To Compete For The Low Bar In Attacks On Bobby Before Tomorrow's Historic Senate Hearings

​  Americans Disgusted. Caroline Attacks RFK Jr's Drug History, Troubled Youth, Calling Him A "Predator," As Jack Schlossberg Sexually Harasses Usha Vance And Sexualizes His Dead Grandmother​   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/globalist-pharma-axis-pulls-out-all

​  More Celia,  Nicole Shanahan Tells Dem Senators She Helped Elect With Very Large Donations In 2020 That She Will Fund Opposition Candidates If They Vote Against Children's Health Today In RFK Hearing

​  And Maria Shriver Calls Caroline Kennedy Courageous For Attacking Bobby; Scroll Down To See Caroline Kennedy's Pharma Investments​   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/nicole-shanahan-tells-dem-senators

​Stop subsidizing addictive slow poison for starters.  Ruh Roh, Pepsi... Republican Congressman Introduces FIZZ-NO Act To Nuke Soda From SNAP   https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/ruh-oh-pepsi-republican-congressman-introduces-fizz-no-act-nuke-soda-snap

Elon Musk Tells Joe Rogan That “Gain-of-Function Is a Propaganda Word for Death Maximization”​   https://discernreport.com/elon-musk-tells-joe-rogan-that-gain-of-function-is-a-propaganda-word-for-death-maximization/

​  They removed ​General Milley's ​official portrait from the Pentagon.  Pentagon To Investigate Milley And Possibly Demote Him - Security Clearance Pulled 

In addition to pulling Milley's security clearance and yanking his personal security detail, Hegseth will also ask the Pentagon's inspector general to investigate his conduct, and the probe could end in Milley receiving a demotion, Fox News reported Tuesday.  
​  The IG investigation will center on allegations that Milley worked to "undermine the chain of command" during the first Trump administration. The probe is certain to scrutinize two calls Milley made to senior Chinese officials in the last days of Trump's first term.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pentagon-investigate-milley-and-possibly-demote-him-security-clearance-pulled

​  The table turns:  US Prosecutor Opens Probe Of DOJ's Jan. 6 Cases

A U.S. prosecutor said on Jan. 27 that he’s investigating why federal prosecutors brought a felony obstruction charge against hundreds of people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-prosecutor-opens-probe-dojs-jan-6-cases

​  Pepe Escobar,  Pepe Escobar: Dancing to Trump’s Disco Inferno

  To get into the real groove of Disco Inferno, we might as well focus on the top three challenges for Trump 2.0: the tech war against China; the geoeconomics war against the Global Majority; and the proxy war in Ukraine...

​..DeepSeek should indeed be seen as the “biggest dark horse” in the open-source Large Language Model (LLM) domain, now identified from Jakarta to Wall Street and Silicon Valley as potentially Beijing’s secret weapon in the AI war with the US. Even Mr. Disco Inferno was forced to admit DeepSeek’s breakthrough as a “wake-up call”.​..

..So the answer was to develop cost-efficient powerful LLM models, without access to literally hundreds of thousands of Nvidia H100s chips. DeepSeek stated they had used just 2,048 Nvidia H800s and only $5.6million to train a model with 671 billion (italics mine) parameters: that’s a very small fraction of what OpenAI and Google spent to train models of the same size...

..So in a nutshell DeepSeek is a 100% Chinese LLM companywhich was capable to come up with open-source models and a free downloadable app for every consumer to use. That in itself destroys the current American-imposed neoliberal hypercapitalist AI business model...

..The new game of course is just beginning. Stargate, OpenAI’s joint venture with Japan’s SoftBank, also heavily plugged by Trump, plans to spend at least $100 billion on AI infrastructure in the US. In parallel, Elon Musk’s xAI is massively expanding the Colossus supercomputer to contain more than 1million GPUs to help train its Grok AI models...

..Now to the war against the Global Majority. Inestimable Prof. Michael Hudson is adamant: in an absolutely must read essay, he concisely explains that “when Trump promised his voters that the United States must be the ‘winner’ in any international trade or financial agreement, he is declaring economic war on the rest of the world.”
The key Hudson take away: If nations in the Global South are to save their economy “from being plunged into austerity, price inflation, unemployment and social chaos”, they will have to “suspend payments on foreign debts denominated in dollars.”
​  It’s a work in progress: “Circumstances…are forcing the world to break away from the US-centered financial order. The US dollar’s exchange rate is going to soar in the short term as a result of Trump blocking imports with tariffs and trade sanctions. This exchange-rate shift will squeeze foreign countries owing dollar debts in the same way that Mexico and Canada are to be squeezed. To protect themselves, they must suspend dollar debt service.”...

..And now to the Forever Wars front.
​  Mr. Disco Inferno, posing as a humanitarian for the non-stop camera clicking, has asked vassals Jordan and Egypt to de facto become accomplices in ethnic cleansing, absorbing as many as 1.5 million people from Gaza. Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly “prohibits the forced transfer of protected people out of or into occupied territory”.
​  Turning a genocide into a real estate opportunity  in a “phenomenal location” will proceed in parallel with energetically courting the Saudis, after MbS in Riyadh promised last week to invest at least $600 billion – and up to a possible $1 trillion – in the US...

..As star French historian Emmanuel Todd has brilliantly demonstrated , “Trump’s job will be to manage the defeat of the US against Russia.” That’s the toughest call ever. Trump’s supreme anathema is to be seen as a loser...

..The CIA is feeding all sorts of misinformation to Trump on everything from the real state of things in the battlefield to the state of the Russian economy. As it stands, Russians watch all the bombast with barely a smirk. Peskov: “Moscow still hasn’t received word from Washington about possible Trump, Putin contact… Readiness for meeting remains.”​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250128/pepe-escobar-dancing-to-trumps-disco-inferno-1121513139.html

​  The UNRWA, created to care for Palestinians driven from their homes by Israeli genocide in 1948, is being "outlawed" by the genocidal Israelis. UNRWA keeps the records of what Palestinian families have the right-of-return to their properties in militarily-occupied Palestine.  UN Chief In Open War With Israel & US After 'Hamas-Sympathetic' Relief Agency Banned   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/un-chief-open-war-israel-after-hamas-sympathetic-relief-agency-banned

Health Ministry says 48 bodies found in Gaza over past two days
The death toll from the escalation of tensions in Gaza has now totaled 47,354 since October 2023​   https://tass.com/world/1905319

First foreign head of state visit:  Israeli PM says Trump has invited him to the White House on Feb. 4   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2588179/world

Clearing explosives in Gaza to delay rebuilding for years, MSF warns​ 

"It's extremely difficult to come back to the same place that used to be full of life," said Nadia Abo Mallouh, supporting MSF's medical coordination efforts.​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/clearing-explosives-in-gaza-to-delay-rebuilding-for-years--m

Israel demolishes Palestinian Bedouin village for 235th time in 15 years​   Israeli authorities claim al-Araqib village is built on ‘state land'​   https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/israel-demolishes-palestinian-bedouin-village-for-235th-time-in-15-years-3697762

​  Lebanon agrees to longer presence of Israeli troops in exchange for prisoners — report
"Lebanon had no other choice but to give its consent," a source in a Lebanese special service told the newspaper​   https://tass.com/world/1905371

Israel says its troops in Syria will remain atop Mt Hermon indefinitely​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250128-israel-says-its-troops-in-syria-will-remain-atop-mt-hermon-indefinitely/

Number of people killed under Turkish shelling in Aleppo rises to 12​   https://www.syriahr.com/en/354654/

Russian delegation arrives in Damascus for first time since change of government in Syria​   https://tass.com/politics/1905275

Zelensky's term expired, so he can't revoke his negotiatio​ns-ban. Putin: Russia Ready to Pick Negotiators for Direct Talks With Zelensky, But He Can't Sign Peace Deal​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250128/putin-russia-ready-to-pick-negotiators-for-direct-talks-with-zelensky-if-hes-ready-1121515700.html

​Saltwater is corroding it, closing the option to use it.  Denmark Changes Tune, Allows Russia's Gazprom To Do Work On Damaged NS2 Pipeline   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/denmark-changes-tune-allows-russias-gazprom-do-work-damaged-ns2-pipeline

​  U.S. Navy Bans DeepSeek Over 'Security Concerns' As 'Substantial' Evidence Emerges Chinese AI Ripped Off ChatGPT

​  An email sent to "shipmates" in recent days, confirmed by CNBC on Tuesday, referenced the Navy's AI policy and emphasized the importance of refraining from using DeepSeek. The memo warned service members against using the platform "for any work-related tasks or personal use" and instructed them to "avoid downloading, installing, or using the DeepSeek model in any capacity."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/us-navy-bans-deepseek-over-security-concerns-substantial-evidence-emerges-chinese-ai-ripped

​  Top AI Investor warns goal is to crash human wages in order to bring “economic utopia”

​  Marc Andreessen, cofounder of the massive venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz — which has its fingers in pretty much every pie in tech — has revealed an eyebrow-raising detail in his “techno-optimist” vision of the future...
​..“A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero,” Andreessen wrote.​   https://endtimeheadlines.org/2025/01/top-ai-investor-warns-goal-is-to-crash-human-wages-in-order-to-bring-economic-utopia/

DeepSeek AI is Free, the Comparable Version of ChatGPT Costs $200 a Month​   https://mishtalk.com/economics/deepseek-ai-is-free-the-comparable-version-of-chatgpt-costs-200-a-month/

How could it not? Bias is critical to any business model, right?  DeepSeek AI App Demonstrates Pro-CCP Bias, Influence​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/deepseek-ai-app-demonstrates-pro-ccp-bias-influence

​  Charles Hugh Smith,  The AI Fad Just Burned to the Waterline

Sometimes wide moats and billions of dollars to blow lead not to glory but to hubris, which beckons Nemesis.​   https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/the-ai-fad-just-burned-to-the-waterline

​People die in wars. I think that is the issue. Who will die?  Ray Dalio Warns Of Brutal AI War Between U.S. And China: 'No Country Can Lose'   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ray-dalio-warns-brutal-ai-war-between-us-and-china-no-country-can-lose

​  An overwhelming majority of Greenlanders want independence at some point but only 6% want their semi-autonomous country to secede from Denmark to become part of the US instead.
​  A new poll shows that 84% of Greenlanders want their homeland to be independent from Denmark. Yet almost half, 45%, say they only want it if it does not have a negative impact on their standard of living.​ Only 9% say they do not want Greenlandic independence.​   https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/virtually-no-greenlander-wants-to-join-the-us-poll-finds/

  Walking, bicycling, gardening and other outdoor exercise are also effective against depression.  Who Says You Can't Run Away From Your Problems?

Running is the most wholesome therapy for anxiety and depression.​   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/who-says-you-cant-run-away-from-your

​Bicyclist (pictured riding uphill in Palestine bike jersey)

Missed Again

 Innocent Bystanders,

​  They couldn't even kill Trump...  Kremlin Responds To Carlson's Claim That Biden Admin Tried To Assassinate Putin

​  Tucker Carlson has unleashed international controversy this week when in an interview with journalist Matt Taibbi, Carlson claimed that former Secretary of State Antony Blinken had pushed for a "real war" with Russia and that the Biden administration sought to "kill Putin."... However, Carlson didn't offer specifics or any evidence. Carlson stated firmly that the Biden White House "was pushing so hard for a real war, trying to kill Putin, for example… The Biden administration did [it], they tried to kill Putin." ...
​..Russian President Vladimir Putin is well protected from any potential threats, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. He was responding to a claim by American journalist Tucker Carlson that the administration of former US President Joe Biden planned to assassinate the Russian leader.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-responds-carlsons-claim-biden-admin-tried-assassinate-putin

​  Bessent is formidable in finance.  Scott Bessent Confirmed As Treasury Secretary, Pushes For Gradual Universal Tariffs Up To 20%

Late on Monday, the Senate confirmed Scott Bessent’s nomination for Treasury Secretary in a 68–29 vote, putting him in a key role in implementing President Trump’s tariff and growth agenda. The billionaire investor will be spearheading Trump’s plan of cutting taxes and curbing deficits, while putting forward a tariff plan that also facilitates growth.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/scott-bessent-confirmed-treasury-secretary-pushes-gradual-universal-tariffs-20

​  A lot of credit-money is going to be pulled out of the US economy this year​, $2 trillion cut from circulation in a GDP of $27 trillion.​ Will other money come in from somewhere?  Will tariffs hold currency inside the US enough to make up for that?​  Will the people who lose jobs be employable elsewhere? Doing what? 

​  White House Pauses Federal Grants, Loans

​  The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directed federal agencies, in a Jan. 27 memorandum, to suspend the distribution of grants, loans, and other financial assistance while the programs are under review.​..

​..The lawmakers argued that the administration’s actions would lead to “far-reaching consequences” for nearly all federal programs and activities and could potentially jeopardize people’s financial security.
​  “The law is the law—and we demand you in your role as Acting OMB Director reverse course to ensure requirements enacted into law are faithfully met and the nation’s spending laws are implemented as intended,” they stated.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/white-house-pauses-federal-grants-loans

"Monday Afternoon Massacre": USAID Employees Placed On Leave For Allegedly Circumventing Trump's Orders​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/monday-afternoon-massacre-usaid-employees-placed-leave-allegedly-circumventing-trumps

​  From last week, a personal digital assistant to shop and spend "on your behalf":  Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identity

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the technology world by surprise on Thursday with the release of Operator, his company’s first AI agent that can act autonomously on the web.​  But OpenAI is not Altman’s only venture that’s trying to capitalize on the popularity of AI agents.
​  Altman’s World project now wants to create tools that link certain AI agents to people’s online personas, letting other users verify that an agent is acting on a person’s behalf.​   https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/24/sam-altmans-world-now-wants-to-link-ai-agents-to-your-digital-identity/

  ​Stocks lost $1 trillion yesterday, but are making it back up today. (Plunge Team helping out?)  Nvidia, OpenAI's Sam Altman Respond To DeepSeek Developments

The entire AI complex sold off violently on Monday after China's "AI Sputnik" moment, driven by the low-cost DeepSeek chatbot, raised doubts about the market's future expectations for massive investments in new computing infrastructure and upgraded power grids to support large language models and other AI technologies.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/nvidia-openais-sam-altman-respond-deepseek-developments

​  1000 seconds is a long time to sustain a fusion reaction. (I can't even count to 100 million degrees C.) China Breaks Nuclear Fusion Record, Again

Chinese researchers set a new record by sustaining a nuclear fusion reaction at 100 million degrees Celsius for 1,066 seconds.
​  China invests nearly double the U.S. in fusion research, with Energy Singularity achieving breakthroughs in device size reduction and efficiency.
Energy Singularity plans to develop its HH170 tokamak by 2027.​   https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/China-Breaks-Nuclear-Fusion-Record-Again.html

  ​Poland chokes EU industrial engine, Germany.  Poland warns against restarting Russia gas supplies

Poland's president ... Andrzej Duda told the BBC that the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which have not been used since 2022, "should be dismantled".
​  This, he said, would mean the likes of Germany would not be tempted to restore Russian supplies to boost its own struggling economy.
"I can only hope that European leaders will learn lessons from Russia's aggression against Ukraine and that they will push through a decision to never restore the pumping of gas through this pipeline," he said.​   https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m5p21pmy2o

​  CORDON SANITAIRE ON LIFE SUPPORT: Merz bows to pressure, pledges to bring anti-migration legislation to the Bundestag on Friday and hopes to pass it with AfD support

​  Between late Sunday and this morning, it became apparent that Merz and everybody else in Berlin had grasped the logic of their situation:
​  The CDU/CSU is now suddenly making statements that would have been unthinkable just a few weeks ago: “What is right in this matter does not become wrong just because the wrong people agree with it,” Friedrich Merz said on Monday, reiterating his intention to raise the issue of migration in the Bundestag, regardless of the possible majority supporters. “I stand by my clear position.”
​  “The AfD is not the problem – the problem is that a two-year-old child was murdered while sitting in a handcart, that a helper stood by and paid with his life, that emergency services are now being attacked elsewhere,” CDU General Secretary Carsten Linnemann fumed on Sunday. Such a sentence may seem unproblematic and logical to the average citizen, but in political Berlin it is disreputable at the very least.
​  Meanwhile, FDP leader Christian Lindner has already made it clear that he will support the CDU/CSU motions to tighten migration policy in the Bundestag, even if their adoption would only be secured by the approval of the AfD.​   https://www.eugyppius.com/p/cordon-sanitaire-on-life-support

  ​"I don't think it means what you think it means..."   French PM Bayrou says Elon Musk is 'creating a threat to democracies'

French Prime Minister François Bayrou on Monday said that billionaire entrepreneur and owner of social media platform X Elon Musk creates a menace to democracies. His comments about Musk came after last week's warning that France and Europe must stand firm in the face of US President Donald Trump and his policies or risk being "crushed".​   https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250127-french-pm-bayrou-says-elon-musk-is-creating-a-threat-to-democracies

​  John Helmer substantiates a Russian point of view:  DUE NORTH – TRUMP OPENS THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA FROM GREENLAND

Officially, the Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman has declared Russia to be against both Fredericksen and Trump.
​  Their claims, Maria Zakharova said last Thursday,   “neglect the crux of the issue.” That, she explained, is the concerted Danish campaign to destroy the indigenous identity, culture, and reproduction of the Inuit Greenlanders, combined with the theft and poisoning of their land by US nuclear bomber and submarine bases. “Given the extensive history of colonial exploitation by Denmark and the United States, it is unsurprising that Greenland seeks independence and the establishment of a sovereign state,” Zakharova said.  
​  No Russian currently engaged in the serious fighting against the US believes in displaying  enthusiasm for either the cavalry charge  or the parley.  Instead, the Russians are preparing to fight Trump’s Greenland move as the opening of a new front to attack Russia from the north.​..  

​..In the US Defense Department’s “2024 Arctic Strategy” paper, Russia is the principal target, along with Russian-Chinese cooperation in natural resource mining, trade and oil and gas shipping along the Northern Sea Route. “Major geopolitical changes are driving the need for this new strategic approach to the Arctic,” the paper declared, “including Russia’s full-scale [sic] invasion of Ukraine, the accession of Finland and Sweden to the NATO Alliance, increasing collaboration between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Russia, and the accelerating impacts of climate change. This increasingly accessible region is becoming a venue for strategic competition, and the United States must stand ready to meet the challenge alongside Allies and partners.”   ​   https://johnhelmer.net/due-north-trumps-opens-the-war-against-russia-from-greenland/

Israel Isn’t Leaving Syria: Settlement Plans Signal a Permanent Land Grab

​  The same day as Assad’s ousting and Israel’s invasion, Uri Tzafon, an Israeli settler movement to reoccupy southern Lebanon, wrote on their blog, “In Syria too, we must go at least 10 kilometers [approximately six miles] deep and reclaim the entire Hermon range. Jewish settlement will ensure Israeli control for generations.”...

​..Al-Marsad researcher Dr. Nazeh Brik pointed out that military control often serves as a prelude to eventual Israeli settlement — just as it’s done in the West Bank and Golan.
“Most of the settlements began as a military base, and then it became a civilian settlement,” Brik said.
​  Local Syrian sources say Israel has expanded beyond the buffer zone to occupy the villages of Arab al-Sudi, Shabraq, Sihyun, Nofa and the east of the town of Sayda. Israeli forces have also taken control of Syrian water sources, including the Saharan al-Julan Dam. Taking control of the water supply is part of the settlement strategy, Ayoub explained.
​  “Israel won’t leave the new occupation area,” Ayoub said. “They need new settlers to control the land and the water. So they need a new settler power to continue controlling the area.” And with Uri Tzafon and Nachala, they already have Israelis ready to take up that mantle.​   https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/27/israel-isnt-leaving-syria-settlement-plans-signal-a-permanent-land-grab/

​  Turkey covets North Syria, where the US already supports Kurdish separatists.  Turkish occupation bombing targets the southern countryside of Kobani

The southern countryside of Kobani city, in addition to the wheat silos in Sarrin, is being subjected to air strikes carried out by the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries.​   https://hawarnews.com/en/turkish-occupation-bombing-targets-the-southern-countryside-of-kobani

​  Tishreen Dam Administration sounds the alarm on imminent disaster, demands immediate action
Amid the ongoing Turkish occupation's assaults on Tishreen Dam using warplanes and drones, fears of its collapse are escalating, posing a significant threat to hundreds of thousands of civilians. This danger arises from potential power outages, water scarcity, and the risk of flooding villages and cities along both banks of the Euphrates River in the event of a partial or total collapse of the dam.​   https://hawarnews.com/en/tishreen-dam-administration-sounds-the-alarm-on-imminent-disaster-demands-immediate-action

  ​"Ceasefire", with murder and looting:  Israeli troops continue killing spree on civilians in Southern Lebanon

Since the expiration of the last ceasefire deadline, Israeli military actions have reportedly resulted in at least 24 civilian deaths and more than 120 injuries.​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-troops-continue-killing-spree-on-civilians-in-southe

​  Netanyahu brands Hamas as ‘new Nazis,’ urges world to confront anti-Semitism
Benjamin Netanyahu stressed that "the Jewish state will always stand as a safe haven for Jews worldwide"​   https://tass.com/world/1904599

​  Trump doubles-down on Gaza Displacement Plan

US President Donald Trump has reiterated his plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt and Jordan after the two countries firmly rejected the proposal.
​  "I'd like to get them [Palestinians in Gaza] living in an area where they can live without disruption, revolution," he said to a press pool.
"When you look at the Gaza Strip, it's been hell for so many years," he added.​   https://www.newarab.com/news/displaced-palestinians-return-north-gaza-amid-ceasefire?blockId=block_46463

Smotrich says working on implementing Trump plan to expel Gazans

Far-right Israeli Minister Bezalel Smotrich says he is working on implementing US President Donald Trump's plans for the people of Gaza.​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/smotrich-says-working-on-implementing-trump-plan-to-expel-ga

​  Confusing, because the Lebanese army lets Israel slaughter and loot South Lebanon.  Hezbollah to act accordingly if 'Israel' remains past deadline: Qassem

The secretary-general of Hezbollah underlines that the Resistance emerged victorious from Operation Al Aqsa Flood, pledging that the Resistance would act against Israeli violations...

​..On the ceasefire agreement, he clarified that Hezbollah’s acceptance aligned with the Lebanese state’s decision. "We agreed to the ceasefire because the state decided to confront and protect the borders, pushing Israel out," Sheikh Qassem said. "This is an opportunity for the state to fulfill its duties and test its capabilities on a political level."​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/hezbollah-to-act-accordingly-if--israel--remains-past-deadli

​  This is  long range strike capability:  Iran reveals GAZA UCAS carrying 8 Sadid-345 precision glide-bombs

​  It boasts a wingspan of 21 meters, a length of 11 meters, and a maximum takeoff weight of 3,100 kg. Powered by a turboprop engine with approximately 650 shaft horsepower, the  drone can achieve a top speed of 350 km/h and can fly at altitudes up to 35,000 feet.
​  Its endurance is impressive, with a claimed flight duration of up to 35 hours, offering a combat radius of 2,000 kilometers. This extensive range and endurance make it suitable for a variety of combat and intelligence operations...
..The Gaza drone is equipped with advanced electro-optical systems including a day-vision camera with a zoom capability of 100 to 120 times, infrared sensors, and laser designation capabilities..

​..The design and capabilities of the Gaza drone indicate Iran’s progress in  UAV technology, drawing from experiences with captured American drones like the MQ-9 Reaper and adapting them with indigenous innovations.
​  The Sadid-345, also known as the Sadid guided bomb, is an Iranian precision-guided glide bomb designed specifically for use on unmanned combat aerial vehicles [UCAVs] like the Shahed-149...
..The Sadid-345 is 1.63 meters long, with a diameter of 152 mm, and weighs approximately 34 kg. It is constructed from composite materials, providing both strength and lightweight properties. This glide bomb features four fixed fins for lift and stability and four deflectable fins at the tail for precise trajectory control, allowing it to glide up to 6 km from its release point. The warhead is filled with composition H6 explosive, pre-fragmented to ensure maximum damage within a lethal radius of 30 meters, and is detonated by an impact fuse. The Sadid-345 can be fitted with various seekers to enhance its precision.​   https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/01/27/iran-reveals-gaza-ucas-carrying-8-sadid-345-precision-missiles/

Big, fast, high altitude Russian fighters support advanced air to air and air to ground strike systems.  Iran officially adds Russian Su-35 aircraft to its arsenal​   https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/01/27/iran-officially-adds-russian-su-35-aircraft-to-its-arsenal/

​  Feds Nab 50 Illegals In Raid On Tren De Aragua Gang's 'Makeshift Nightclub'

​  The congregation of gang-related revelers made for an inviting target -- rather than picking up two or three border-violators at a time, the party at an abandoned warehouse served up dozens of suspects on a single platter. Officials described the site as a "makeshift nightclub" and said the event was only open to invited guests. Around 3 am on a frigid Denver night, armed agents crashed the party, including members of the DEA, ATF, Homeland Security, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).​  https://www.zerohedge.com/political/feds-nab-50-illegals-raid-tren-de-aragua-gangs-makeshift-nightclub

​  How long before ​bilateral FPV-drone warfare ensues?  Chaos On Border: Mexican Cartels Fire At US Border Patrol Agents

Late Monday night, Texas Department of Public Safety Lt. Chris Olivarez wrote on X:
​  Earlier today, @TxDPS responded to assist the US Border Patrol after agents received gunfire from cartel members in Mexico while patrolling in Fronton, Starr County.​  DPS Drone Operators captured the gunmen fleeing Mexico due to military presence, & seeking refuge on an island between the US & Mexico.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/chaos-border-mexican-cartels-fire-us-border-patrol-agents

​  Mexico receives nearly 4,100 immigrants from US in Trump's first week

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says that the first week of Trump's administration didn't show an increase in deportations of Mexican nationals compared to previous years.​   https://www.trtworld.com/latin-america/mexico-receives-nearly-4100-immigrants-from-us-in-trumps-first-week-18258579

​  Arrivals are way down.  Border Reporter Has "Never Seen Anything" Like This Before...

“Per sources, Border Patrol recorded just 582 illegal crossings at the southern border yesterday, with not a single one of the nine sectors hitting 200. I’ve never seen anything this low in all of my border coverage,” Melugin urged.
​  He continued, “The numbers were already flat/low in Biden’s final week, bouncing between 1,200-1,400 illegal crossings daily, but the numbers have been falling off a cliff since Trump took office.”
​  Melugin further breaks the numbers down, noting “To put this into perspective, at the height of the border crisis in December 2023, Border Patrol hit a record high 11,000+ illegal crossings across the border in a single day, with the Del Rio sector alone getting 4,000+”​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/border-reporter-has-never-seen-anything

​  Pardoned J6 Protestor Says He Has Proof Police Incited Riots At Capitol

Hiles says there's a lot more to the story that he could not tell the public until he was officially pardoned by Donald Trump last week.
​  The boat captain tells a local NBC affiliate, WAVY-TV 10 that he has video proof of capitol police acting to incite the riots.  At least 9 minutes of his video is posted to WAVY-TV 10, though it appears to be heavily edited...
​..Not only that, Hiles also asserts that federal agents threatened him with long term imprisonment if he took those videos to the media or posted them to the internet.
​  “It was what I was told in August of 2021...And in a Zoom meeting with Brandon Merriman, who is the special agent in charge of Jan. 6, and he’s the guy you saw do the interview about 60 Minutes about Jan. 6.
​  In a Zoom meeting with Brandon Merriman in August of 2021, he told me that if I go to the media and start talking about Jan. 6, if my videos find the media or the Internet, that I would, quote, ‘spend the rest of my life in prison.’ I asked for what [and] he said. ‘I’ll find something.'”​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pardoned-j6-protestor-says-he-has-proof-police-incited-riots-capitol

"Gigantic Rat's Nest": Taibbi Hints FBI Communications With COVID Scientists Will Be Exposed​   https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/gigantic-rats-nest-taiabi-hints-fbi-communications-covid-scientist-will-be-exposed

​  My mind wants to read "Cuddle"​.  Nobody is saying how it went.  House Republicans Huddle With Trump At Miami Resort

​  House Republicans are gathering at President Trump's National Doral in Miami, Florida this week for their annual policy retreat, where they will golf, talk shop, and listen to Donald Trump deliver an expected address on Monday.
​  According to The Hill, House GOP leaders have already indicated that they'll be discussing Trump's legislative agenda - which includes an extension of his 2017 tax cuts, tackling inflation through energy policy, and securing the southern US border. Republicans are looking to try and move the agenda in a single bill through the budget reconciliation process vs. splitting it into two pieces as some Republicans had hoped for.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/house-republicans-huddle-trump-miami-resort

  ​I Google-searched "Kennedy Senate Confirmation Hearings" and the stories all opened with lies and slander. 

The liars call him a liar for telling the detailed truth and providing proof.  The attacks are from all sides of every issue; bipartisan bribery from Pfizer?

John Ward keeps wondering:  Has Trump stolen RFK Jr's health policies, but left him out to dry in the Senate hearings?   https://therealslog.ghost.io/h/?ref=therealslog-newsletter

​  Mike Pence’s Advocacy Group Has Ties to Pfizer

​  As Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. prepares for his highly anticipated confirmation hearing next Wednesday, a wave of opposition has surged from various groups and organizations determined to block his path to becoming the next Secretary of Health and Human Services. From conservative advocacy groups to mainstream medical organizations, the attacks have been swift and calculated, aiming to undermine his credibility and sway Republican senators to vote against his nomination.
​  Mike Pence’s Advancing American Freedom — a conservative advocacy group claiming to fight the radical Left and promote religious liberty and economic prosperity — is launching one line of concerted attacks against RFK, Jr. in the hopes of discouraging Republican senators from voting in favour for him.
​  In a rather strange advertisement displaying its monetary backing (“six-figure ad campaign”), the AAF has launched a serious attack against Trump’s nomination of RFK, Jr. as HHS secretary.

​  In a letter addressed to Republican Senators, AAF President Tim Chapman and Board Chairman Marc Short state several “concerns” they have regarding the “nomination of Robert F. Kenndy Jr. (RFK)” (sic) to head HHS, such as his views on vaccines, psychedelics, and abortion.​   https://brownstone.org/articles/mike-pences-advocacy-group-has-ties-to-pfizer/

​  Et tu, Bernie?  Bernie Sanders Convenes Vaccine High Priest Roundtable

​  Bernie Sanders—Senate HELP Committee ranking minority member—just convened a roundtable of Vaccine High Priests, including Pontifex Maximus Paul Offit. The obvious objective of this roundtable discussion is to spread fear among the American people that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will take away their vaccines and send their children back to 19th and early 20th century conditions of childhood mortality.

​  It’s ironic that Senator Sanders has drunk the Kool-Aid of vaccine ideology, given his general posture of being suspicious of industrial and financial interests with well-funded lobbies on Capitol Hill. It seems likely he is aware that that Big Pharma has by far the biggest lobby on the Hill, but he apparently has a blind spot where vaccines are concerned.

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/bernie-sanders-convenes-vaccine-high

​Bernie S​anders was the #2 Senator in receipt of pharmaceutical contributions from 2015-2016, which is what I can find: $439,256​ ​ ["Honest" politicians stay bought.]

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips?Mem=Y&cycle=2016&ind=H04++&recipdetail=S&sortorder=U

​Meryl Nass MD,  A letter to sign to support Bobby Kennedy's nomination   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/a-letter-to-sign-to-support-bobby

  John Leake,  WSJ Editorial Board Sweeps Itself into Dustbin of History,  Editorial Board Opinion about RFK, Jr. is pure Big Pharma propaganda.

​  Instead of addressing RFK, Jr.’s concerns about data transparency and safety when it comes to injecting children with products for which manufacturers bear no liability, the WSJ Editorial Board dismissed them out of hand. Of the Opinion’s many inanities, the most notable is the following:
​  "He says he merely wants to ensure that vaccines are safe and thoroughly studied—who doesn’t?—and that Americans have access to more information. In Mr. Kennedy’s case, this means opening the industry to lawsuits by the trial bar.​"
​  Can the editors name a single other industry in the United States that is shielded from lawsuits in the event that its service or product results in injury or death?​... With their smear of RFK, Jr. this morning, the WSJ Editorial Boards signals that it has—despite all the dreadful revelations of the last five years—remained willfully or unintentionally ignorant of the fact that American public health and public health policy are in a terrible state.​   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/wsj-editorial-board-sweeps-itself

​  Meryl Nass MD,  Robert F. Kennedy asked himself the 2 most important questions of anyone's life: “If not me, who? If not now, when?”

​Posted Kennedy on X on Oct. 25: “FDA’s war on public health is about to end. … If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags.”
​  Many on the left who loved Kennedy when he was a Democrat now call him “crazy,” “controversial” and a “danger.” Tens of millions of people in our nation and around the world have different labels for him: “hero” and “life-saver.”
​  Many of those who have attacked him over the last two years have done so out of blind and ignorant allegiance to a system and an ideology that many believe has negatively affected the overall health of every American, including millions of children. Instead of delivering a kneejerk attack upon Kennedy, perhaps they should have taken just a few moments to educate themselves about him. The best place to do so would have been his X account before the election.
​  If they did, they would have learned that Kennedy has dedicated his life to saving the lives of others, and especially of children. He has never been in it for the money, the fame or the power.​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/robert-f-kennedy-asked-himself-the

​  PFAS:  'Forever Chemicals' in US Drinking Water Linked to Cancer, Scientists Find   https://www.sciencealert.com/forever-chemicals-in-us-drinking-water-linked-to-cancer-scientists-find

  Meryl Nass MD,  There is controversy regarding whether the US can immediately withdraw from the WHO. Here is the answer.

The answer is YES, unless Congress acts to require its ratification of the process. The President can certainly stop his executive agencies from interacting with the WHO immediately.​   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/there-is-controversy-regarding-whether

​Celia Farber,  Trump Orders CDC To Cut ALL Ties With WHO Immediately; Large Numbers Of CDC Staff Head For Exits   https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/trump-orders-cdc-to-cut-all-ties

Dr. Nass again:  Italy proposes to leave the WHO​,  The dominos start falling   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/italy-proposes-to-leave-the-who

  I think it is a lot more than that.  ‘Jaw-dropping’ Study Finds Vaccinated Children Have 170% Higher Risk of Autism

The peer-reviewed study also found that vaccinated children had a 212% greater likelihood of developing other neurodevelopmental disorders, including ADHD, epilepsy/seizures, brain inflammation and tic and learning disorders.​..

​..Jablonowski noted that the study was based solely on government data. He said:
​  “The government has had this data for decades, professing safety while simultaneously refusing to study safety. The facade of U.S. government public health is crumbling, revealing a culprit in chronic disease in this country: willful ignorance.”
​  The authors of the study noted that government-sponsored studies have not compared health outcomes in vaccinated versus completely unvaccinated children.​   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/study-vaccinated-children-autism-risk-increase/

​  Extensive documentation of cases and overall statistics by Dr. "Living-Free": Dr. Freisleben's Documentation

Dr. Erich Freisleben, a German GP,.. spoke about his very own ‘Road to Damascus’ with respect to the modRNA poison/death juices...
​..Dr. Freisleben mentioned one specific thing that stood out, at least to me: until his retirement in October 2023,
​  "I had seen around 300 patients with severe vaccination side effects and had to employ a doctor in my practice specifically for this purpose, who relieved me of the burden of documenting and reporting the side effects. 262 of these cases are documented anonymously with laboratory results on my website​.
​  In connection with the corona vaccination, I have recorded three deaths, two cases of paralysis from the feet to the neck, several cases of facial paralysis, many severe fatigue syndromes, persistent pain syndromes, visual disturbances, dizziness, heart failure, shortness of breath, hair loss and various skin changes, and much more.​"   https://fackel.substack.com/p/dr-freislebens-documentation

​  Massive Alberta Government Task Force Report Calls for Halt to COVID-19 ‘Vaccines’
“Task Force recommends halting the use of COVID-19 vaccines without full disclosure of their potential risks, ending their use in healthy children and teenagers."​   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-massive-alberta-government

​  Peer-Reviewed Study Finds Irrefutable Evidence Supporting Immediate Market Withdrawal of COVID-19 "Vaccines"
Over 81,000 physicians, scientists, and concerned citizens, 240 elected officials, 17 professional organizations, excess mortality, negative efficacy, and DNA contamination call for urgent action.​   https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-peer-reviewed-study-finds-5f1

​  Russian Military Blows Whistle on Bill Gates’ ‘Bioterrorism’ Plot to ‘Reduce Population’

Russia’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) has accused billionaire Bill Gates of funding “bioterrorism-related activities with the goal of population reduction.”
​  The Russian MOD raised the alarm in a press briefing where officials asserted that the Gates Foundation is a primary sponsor of the U.S. African Biolab Complex.
Addressing the media, Major General Aleksei Rtishchev, Deputy Chief of the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces, warned:
​  “American specialists capable of enhancing the pathogenic functions of microorganisms are actively operating.”
Rtishchev claims that the Russian military has uncovered evidence showing that Gates has been funding U.S. biological activity in Africa.
​   Interestingly, Rtishchev also alleged that the Clinton Foundation is tied to the experiments.​   https://www.globalresearch.ca/russian-military-bill-gates-bioterrorism-plot-reduce-population/5878247

​  Looks military,  Where can I buy a drone the size of a Suburban? White House Clarifies 'Dronegate': New Jersey UAPs Authorized By FAA For "Research Purposes"

​  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt provided much-needed transparency regarding the "dronegate" incident that sparked nationwide concerns over potential threats from China and Russia.
​  In a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, Leavitt said the drones spotted over New Jersey and New York in December had been authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration for "research purposes."
​  "An update on the New Jersey drones. After research and study, the drones flying over New Jersey in large numbers were authorized to be flown by the FAA for research and various other reasons. Many of these drones are hobbyist and recreational drones that enjoy flying drones," Leavitt said during her press conference.
​  She concluded on the drone subject: "This was not the enemy."​   https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/white-house-clarifies-dronegate-new-jersey-drones-authorized-faa-research-purposes

​Gazing Skyward (pictured a couple of weeks ago with chemtrails, but no drones)

Failure Modes

 Contingency Planners,

  Economist Martin Armstrong warns Trump, Devalued Dollar Will Crash the DOW

Armstrong is going to write President Trump a letter warning him NOT to force the US dollar lower.
​  How is the war picture shaping up now that Trump, who wants to be a “peacemaker,” is in office?  Armstrong says, “You have French President Macron saying he wants to send troops into Ukraine.  Britian has just now sent 20,000 or 30,000 troops into Romania.  They want war.  They are basically on the verge of a sovereign debt crisis.  So, they have a choice.  They default and say, oh sorry, we screwed up.  Or, it’s not us, it’s Putin.  We have to go get him.  The German government fell the very next day after Trump was elected.  You see this going on all over Europe.”
​  In closing, Armstrong sees gold (and silver) going up from here.  The US is still the strongest economy by far, but Armstrong’s computer program “Socrates” sees a global recession no later than 2028.  Socrates also sees the possibility of “war as early as April or May of 2025.”  Armstrong tells President Trump, “Get out of NATO–ASAP.”​   https://www.theburningplatform.com/2025/01/26/devalued-dollar-will-crash-the-dow/

​David Stockman looks at specifics of cutting $2 Trillion from the Federal Budget and advocates for it.  America’s Fiscal Doomsday Machine Must Be Stopped   https://brownstone.org/articles/americas-fiscal-doomsday-machine-must-be-stopped/

​  Renewable energy sources require oil wells and mines to renew.   When Renewables Meet Their Limits to Growth

While the power of the sun and the wind remains practically limitless, the resources required to build the many essential — but completely non-recyclable — components of wind turbines and solar panels is not.

​  Let’s take two examples: wind turbine blades and polysilicon solar cells. Turbine blades are made of a composite material: a combination of fiber glass (made by burning natural gas) and epoxy resin (produced directly from crude oil and natural gas liquids). Likewise, polysilicon cells used in solar panels are made by smelting quartz crystals with coal, producing at least two CO2 molecules for every Silicone atom released from its original form (SiO2). Again, focus your attention not (only) on carbon emissions, but the basic fact that both resin making and silicone manufacturing requires large amounts of carbon atoms due to their unique chemical properties and broad-scale availability.​.. Were it not for coal, oil and gas, we would have to cut down entire forests to make a few solar panels and turbine blades. What’s worse, we would be poised to repeat this decade after decade as old panels and turbines fail and must be replaced.​..  On top of their carbon-intensive nature both epoxy resin and poly-crystalline silicone wafers are unrecyclable.​..

..The super-low energy density of “renewables” necessitate their dispatch in absolutely staggering quantities, with all the mining, logistics, smelting, manufacturing and building involved. Many of these activities — especially the making of steel, copper, concrete and glass — require high temperatures (well above a 1000°C), and thus necessitates the burning of high energy density fuels (coal, oil and natural gas). This is why “renewables” cannot technically be built and deployed at scale by using “renewable” energy alone.​   https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/when-renewables-meet-their-limits

  ​Charles Hugh Smith ponders, Is DeepSeek a Sputnik Moment?

I'm not sure that "software will eat the world," but it could consume the stock market bubble in a single gulp.

​  The shockwaves generated by a Chinese company's release of a suite of AI tools called DeepSeek last week may well rival the Sputnik shock, as the DeepSeek AI tools appear to meet the same benchmarks as AI tools such as those issued by OpenAI and other companies, but requiring far less computing resources.
​  DeepSeek achieves its capabilities not from expensive hardware (processors) but from advances in software that can be used on smartphones. The software innovations embedded in DeepSeek have profound financial implications for the companies that manufacture the costly processors needed by conventional AI data centers--Nvidia is the dominant chipmaker in this market--and the Big Tech companies spending billions of dollars (called capex in the financial realm, short for capital expenditures) to create AI tools that they can eventually sell via the subscription model.
​  DeepSeek software evaporates 1) the need for super-energy-hungry, super-expensive processors, 2) vast quantities of electricity and 3) the market for paid subscription AI tools, as DeepSeek's software runs on standard processors and it's been released as open-source software which can be downloaded and run offline on local resources such as PCs or smartphones.​   https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/is-deepseek-a-sputnik-moment

​  DeepSeek May Trigger "Negative Capex Impact" As Peak Data Center Occupancy Forecast Faces Revision

The news of the (extremely) cheaper Chinese DeepSeek response to OpenAI's ChatGPT—allegedly "40-50x more efficient than other large language models," according to Goldman's Rich Privorotsky—has triggered a global selloff across the entire AI ecosystem.
​  The selloff spans chip designers, AI firms, semiconductor equipment manufacturers, AI data center companies, and "Powering Up" baskets tracked by Goldman.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/deepseek-may-trigger-negative-capex-impact-peak-data-center-forecasts-face-revision

No answer; just the question:  Is "Cheap AI" A Black Swan Event?​   https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cheap-ai-black-swan-event

​  Russia's Sputnik,  China Drops Powerful AI Model That’s Free, Fast and Better for Humanity Than Silicon Valley Rivals

The Hangzhou-based tech startup’s new model beats OpenAI’s o1 on math and reasoning benchmarks, and blows Meta’s* Llama 3.1 and OpenAI’s GPT-40 out of the water in coding and complex problem-solving.
​  The model is free to run locally, with access to its API priced at a fraction of competitors’ rates.
The setup reportedly cost $5.6 million to train (vs $78 million for GPT-40), and uses performance-capped chips due to US restrictions, which also saw the use ban the delivery of more powerful processers to China.​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250126/china-drops-powerful-ai-model-thats-free-fast-and-better-for-humanity-than-silicon-valley-rivals-1121502542.html

​  Was Open AI Whistleblower in good spirits "suicided". Police declared "suicide" in 40 minutes, but crime scene findings, parents and second autopsy dispute that.  

Bombshell crime scene photos that cast doubt on whether whistleblower committed suicide​   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14309173/Suchir-Balaji-whistleblower-death-suicide-murder-Sam-Altman-crime-scene-photos-Los-Angeles.html

​  And what might become of that $500 Billion "Stargate" project?   Kyle Young,  Trumps Transhumanist Technocracy

​  Among the many Executive Orders that Trump signed in his first days in office was one to ban Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s). While this may sound like good news, it’s nothing more than a distraction. While Trumps plan may take control of digital currencies away from the Bank for International Settlements, it does nothing to prevent digital currencies issued by other sources from being trackable and/or cancelable in the same way CBDC’s would have been. Donald Trump, RFK Jr, Howard Lutnik (appointed by Trump to be Sec. of Commerce), Musk, Theil, Ramaswamy, Ellison, numerous other politicians on both the left and the right, as well as just about every transhumanist/technocratic billionaire has endorsed digital currency. Why? Partly because its use can also be linked to an implanted digital tracking device. Even without a tracking device, the use of digital currency tells the issuer about every purchase you make, including when and where you made it. If you do or say something that the issuer of the digital currency you’re using doesn’t like, your ability to buy food, fuel, clothing or anything else can been revoked. If you didn’t get the latest vaccine that Bill Gates or Larry Ellison want you to get, your right to medical treatment could be revoked and your digital currency denied.​   https://secularheretic.substack.com/p/trumps-transhumanist-technocracy

​He'd never do this to US!  Trump calls for moving Palestinians to Egypt, Jordan to ‘clean out’ Gaza   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/26/741623/Trump-suggests-Egypt-and-Jordan-accept-more-refugees

Arab League says any plan to uproot Palestinians from Gaza would be ‘ethnic cleansing’​   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2587935/middle-east

​  Palestine’s authorities reject idea of displacing Palestinians from Gaza Strip
"We emphasize that the Palestinian people will never abandon their land or their holy sites," the Palestinian presidential administration said​   https://tass.com/world/1904475

​  Israel destroys only water desalination plant in northern Gaza​  

​ The assessment revealed serious technical malfunctions in the electrical and electromechanical components of all the plant’s operations stages and units. Moreover, the occupation completely destroyed some of the plant’s main components, which led to the destruction of five seawater supply wells, the plant’s intake pipeline, two power generators, a pump and a return water line, as well as the destruction of the external fences and output pumps.    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250125-israel-destroys-only-water-desalination-plant-in-northern-gaza/

​  US ends pause on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel: Axios
Citing 2 Israeli officials, online outlet says US to deliver 1,800 MK-84 bombs to Israel in coming days​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-ends-pause-on-supplying-2-000-pound-bombs-to-israel-axios/3462438

​  2-year-old Palestinian girl new victim of Israel in West Bank

​  Palestinian news agency WAFA, citing the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), identified the victim as Laila Muhammad Ayman al-Khatib, noting that she was two and a half years old.
​  According to the ministry, Laila died from critical wounds after she was shot in the head with live ammunition by Israeli soldiers in Muthalath Ash-Shuhada village, located 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) southwest of the city of Jenin​.   https://en.mehrnews.com/news/227458/2-year-old-Palestinian-girl-new-victim-of-Israel-in-West-Bank

'Graveyards for the living’: Freed Palestinian prisoner exposes inhumane conditions in Israeli jails​   https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250126-graveyards-for-the-living-freed-palestinian-prisoner-exposes-inhumane-conditions-in-israeli-jails/

​  ‘Thank you to Al-Qassam Brigades for the good treatment’: Released Israeli soldiers says to Hamas’ armed wing fighters

​  Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas armed wing, released a video Saturday that showed four Israeli female soldiers who were freed earlier in the day, expressing gratitude in Arabic to Palestinian factions for their humane treatment during their captivity and for safeguarding their lives despite intense Israeli bombings.​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/-thank-you-to-al-qassam-brigades-for-the-good-treatment-released-israeli-soldiers-says-to-hamas-armed-wing-fighters/3462519

​  Qatar mediates agreement between Hamas, Israel for return of displaced Gazan residents beginning Monday
Hamas will hand over hostage Arbel Yehud, two other hostages by Friday, says Qatari Foreign Ministry​   https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/qatar-mediates-agreement-between-hamas-israel-for-return-of-displaced-gazan-residents-beginning-monday/3463399

​  Israeli forces continue assault on Jenin for fifth day

​  The Israeli regime continues its large-scale raid on the city of Jenin and its refugee camp. On Saturday, regime forces attacked and burned several Palestinian houses. The raids that began on Tuesday have so far left over a dozen Palestinians dead and forced 1,800 residents to evacuate the camp.​   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/26/741601/Israeli-forces-Jenin-assault

Stunning Images Show Tens Of Thousands Of Gazans Returning To Destroyed Homes On Foot​   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/stunning-images-show-tens-thousands-gazans-returning-destroyed-homes-foot   

Israeli forces have opened fire at the Lebanese people returning to their homes in the country’s southern towns, killing at least 22 people and wounding 124 others.​   https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/01/26/741616/Israeli-fire-injures-civilians-Lebanon

​  Craig Murray,  Industrial scale looting by the IDF. Televisions, satellite receivers, sound systems, gen set all gone here. Same true in thousands of demolished homes in Khiam. Met neighbours same plus all their antique carpet collection gone. Vast scale must involve miltary transport. Much lower level looting by Russian army in Ukraine got massive coverage in MSM. I have never seen Israeli looting mentioned once there.   https://x.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1883747222241914881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1883747222241914881%7Ctwgr%5Efcddba7b5caeaa284e67b76d88ed3083fe67f931%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2025%2F01%2Flinks-1-27-2025.html

White House announces extension of Lebanon-'Israel' ceasefire deal​   https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/white-house-announces-extension-of-lebanon--israel--ceasefir

Ready to Finish Off Hezbollah: U.S. Replenishing Israel’s Iron Dome and Bunker Buster Bomb Supplies​   https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ready-finish-off-hezbollah-replenishing-israel-iron-dome-bunker-buster

​Meet the new bosses, HTS:  Syria monitor says 35 people summarily executed in three days   https://www.arabnews.com/node/2587937/middle-east

​Now that Russian air defenses are out of Syria:  Signs of Israeli arms supplies to Ukraine emerge​   https://en.topcor.ru/56023-pojavilis-priznaki-postavok-izrailem-oruzhija-ukraine.html

​Simplicius with the unacceptable-to-Russia Ukrainian-leaked "peace plan":  Velyka Novosilka Falls Without Fight, as '100 Day Peace Plan' Reportedly "Leaked"   https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/velyka-novosilka-falls-without-fight

  Armchair Warlord presents a guess at the Russian unacceptable peace plan: 

A more realistic peace plan, taking into account the minimum acceptable Russian position (as otherwise the war will simply continue), in Fourteen Points​   https://x.com/ArmchairW/status/1883697665931874746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1883697665931874746%7Ctwgr%5Efcddba7b5caeaa284e67b76d88ed3083fe67f931%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2025%2F01%2Flinks-1-27-2025.html

​  US officials pushing to unfreeze aid for Ukraine – F​inancial T​imes

​The outlet claims that Rubio’s order endangers support for the development of Ukrainian infrastructure, energy, and economy projects, while not affecting American military assistance. The FT quotes an unnamed Ukrainian government official as saying that “military aid to Ukraine is intact. At least as of now, and it is certainly not part of this 90-day freeze.”​   
​  The pause in US foreign development aid was announced by President Trump on Monday, just hours after his inauguration. The freeze aims to review the effectiveness and alignment of aid with US foreign policy objectives.​   https://swentr.site/news/611659-us-officials-urge-unfreeze-ukraine-aid/

​  Three Boeing 747s loaded with U.S. weapons land near Ukraine

Three Boeing 747 transport planes from USTRANSCOM landed at Poland’s Rzeszów-Jasionka airport this weekend...

​..The delivery of this aid was planned to be completed before the inauguration of Donald Trump, who announced a 90-day suspension of military aid to Ukraine upon taking office. However, the arrival of the three Boeing 747s with weaponry is a part of Biden’s last directives and was not affected by Trump’s new ban on military assistance.​   https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/01/26/three-boeing-747s-loaded-with-u-s-weapons-land-near-ukraine/

​  Belarusian President: Poland prepares for intervention in Belarus

​Poland is preparing for an intervention on Belarusian territory, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko stated on January 26 during a press conference after casting his vote in the country’s presidential election.
​  Lukashenko noted that Poland has territorial claims on western Belarus, extending as far as Minsk. In addition to its aggressive stance towards Minsk and preparation for intervention, Warsaw is also training Belarusian opposition members, the president added.
​  He stressed that Poland would not receive “even a meter” of Belarusian land.​   https://eu.eot.su/2025/01/26/belarusian-president-poland-prepares-for-intervention-in-belarus/

​  Poland, Please Note:  Belarus to get Russian Oreshnik shortly – Lukashenko
The intermediate-range ballistic missile system will be deployed in the country within days, the president has said​ 

​  “We will have the Oreshnik literally any day now. We have agreed with President Vladimir Putin that the next system will be delivered to Belarus even earlier than to Russia,” he said.   https://www.rt.com/russia/611658-belarus-oreshnik-missile-lukashenko/

​  Belarusian peacekeepers ‘best option’ for Ukraine – Lukashenko
Only they can maintain “normal relations” between Moscow and Kiev, the Belarusian president has said​   https://swentr.site/russia/611675-belarusian-peacekeepers-best-option-ukraine/

​  Lukashenko re-elected for seventh term
Derided in the West as a dictator, the Belarusian president has said his leadership brings “stability and security”​   https://www.rt.com/russia/611670-lukashenko-re-elected-poll/

Trump Applies Heavy Pressure on Denmark for the Ownership of Greenland, Leaving Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Her Government in Full ‘Crisis Mode’​   https://discernreport.com/trump-applies-heavy-pressure-on-denmark-for-the-ownership-of-greenland-leaving-prime-minister-mette-frederiksen-and-her-government-in-full-crisis-mode/

​Location, location, location and mineral resources:  Why Greenland Matters: US Strategy In The Changing Arctic   https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/why-greenland-matters-us-strategy-changing-arctic

​  Which Country Could Buy Greenland? Spoiler: It’s Not the US

Under the terms of an agreement made over a century ago, Denmark would have to give the UK the right of first refusal if it ever decided to sell Greenland, noted Tom Hoyem, former Danish minister for Greenland...   “If Trump tried to buy Greenland, he would have to ask London first,” Hoyem explained, adding: “The United Kingdom demanded in 1917 that if Greenland were to be sold, the UK would have the first right to buy it.”​   https://sputnikglobe.com/20250126/which-country-could-buy-greenland-spoiler-its-not-the-us-1121498417.html

​  President Donald Trump on Saturday said he has halted any new hires of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agents.
“They hired—were trying to hire 88,000 new workers to go with you, and we’re in the process of developing a plan to either terminate all of them or maybe we move them to the border,” Trump remarked at a speech in Nevada, while also saying, “On day one, I immediately halted the hiring of any new IRS agents.
​  “I think we’re going to move them to the border where they are allowed to carry guns. You know, they’re so strong on guns. But these people are allowed to carry guns. So we will probably move them to the border,” he said.​   https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-says-he-immediately-halted-hiring-new-irs-agents

​Deep-state RINOs really loathe Tulsi Gabbard:  Gabbard’s path through Intelligence Committee narrows ahead of key hearing   https://thehill.com/homenews/5106082-tulsi-gabbard-intelligence-committee-hearing/

  "Limited hangout" is the term:  New CIA boss Ratcliffe says Biden-era report backing lab-leak theory released to 'restore' trust

CIA spokesperson previously told Fox News the agency made the assessment with 'low confidence'​   https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-cia-boss-ratcliffe-says-biden-era-report-backing-lab-leak-theory-released-restore-trust

​  That is 256X as much MISC in kids who got the "vaccine products", which did not protect them.  5-11 year olds with PRR@245 for MISC and 165 for COVID-19  

I am in disbelief at how high those signals are. 245.56 for Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MISC) in children? This is a rare condition so why is the safety signal so high in the context of the COVID-19 shots?

​..MIS-C has varied symptoms that affect several organs and systems in the body. Many children have symptoms resembling toxic shock syndrome or Kawasaki disease, in which the coronary arteries enlarge or form aneurysms. Also common are heart inflammation with impaired heart function and low blood pressure, rash or red eyes, and gastrointestinal symptoms.​..

..Interesting that the Mayo Clinic, to this day, is recommending these shots that are PROVEN by the CDC to be associated with MISC in 5-11 year olds as per their PRR calculation of 245.56.​   https://jessicar.substack.com/p/5-11-year-olds-with-prr245-for-misc

​  Meryl Nass MD explains the "Anything But Vaccines" narrative:  It isn't due to vaccines.  Now shut up and go home. Wash your mouth out with soap. Don't ever let me hear such things from you again!--vaccine injuries being the first medical subject to be powerfully cancelled   https://merylnass.substack.com/p/it-isnt-due-to-vaccines

​  EPA to Appeal Federal Court’s Landmark Ruling on Fluoride
Attorneys for the EPA late last week said the agency will appeal the September federal court ruling requiring it to regulate fluoride in water. Judge Edward Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled last year that water fluoridation at current levels in the U.S. poses an “unreasonable risk” of reducing IQ in children.​   https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/epa-appeal-federal-court-fluoride-landmark-ruling/

​  Pierre Kory MD,  The History and Therapeutic Mechanisms Of Chlorine Dioxide

Chlorine dioxide was discovered over 200 years ago. It's use has steadily expanded into many industries and therapeutic applications despite a near global regulatory blockade on clinical research.​..

​..NASA actually referred to chlorine dioxide as “A Universal Antidote” back in 1988 (p.118 from this Annual Report), where these statements appear:
​  The special properties of the Alcidem formulation, which has been approved by U.S. regulatory authorities, enable it to destroy mold and fungus, as well as bacteria and viruses, with minimal harm to humans, animals or plants
​  NERAC conducted a computer search of more than a dozen databases and uncovered scores of applications, among them treatment of viral, fungal and bacterial infections in animals; treatment of human skin diseases; disinfection and sterilization of medical facilities;
​  The University of Connecticut Medical School is studying the effects of the Alcide compound on human wound healing and scar tissue suppression.
​  At Israel's Hebrew University Dental School, trials are in progress on a plaque reducing mouthwash and in England researchers are meeting success in human clinical trials of treating herpes and other sexually transmitted diseases.
  I cannot over emphasize the importance of the above NASA document from 1988. In it, they admit that it treats a broad range of infections in animals, aids in wound healing (I have a lot on that later), and was having success in treating herpes and other STD’s. Never forget this when you read statements from regulatory agencies across the world where they repeatedly warn that it is a “toxic bleach,” “bleach like substance,” and is “dangerous for ingestion.” Absurd...
..Kalker argues in his mechanisms of action post here (where I paraphrase for brevity):​  "chlorine dioxide transports oxygen to all parts of the body where water is present. The bound oxygen dissociates in the presence of excess protons in areas of disease (like spike protein). The released oxygen optimizes the saturation of hemoglobin in the red blood cell and thus improves oxygen delivery to the most acidic cells and their compromised mitochondria first, while the chlorine ion (not chloride) eliminates pathogens or acidic toxins and restores pH balance. This improvement in cellular oxygenation is thought to be yet another positive therapeutic mechanism for reversing disease​".​..

..The therapeutic uses for chlorine dioxide are endless. And therein lies the problem. Stay tuned for my upcoming post which compiles the studies and trials in a diverse set of human diseases.​   https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/the-history-and-therapeutic-mechanisms

​  Physicist Anastassia Makarieva on climate models all being black boxes in computers: Warming, cooling, or we don't know?

What to ask your climate scientist friend about the water cycle and global temperature​   https://bioticregulation.substack.com/p/warming-cooling-or-we-dont-know

Planetary Life Form (preparing some collard greens I just picked)