The alliance formed to counter U.A.E. and RSF in Sudan will strengthen airspace control around the Arabian peninsula, where Israel flew missions against Yemen in 2025.

Russia's energy sector has been a US target since the 1950's. Democracy in Europe will be put to the test.

Jan. 16, 2026. "DeepSeek’s AI models are no longer the most capable among open models, nor the cheapest, nor even the most open anymore. Is there a good reason still to give this lab which once shocked the world outsized attention? Yes, I think so. But not because of its models or technological progress, but because of its internal incentives and business model. More precisely, we should pay attention to DeepSeek because it has no business model – a unique and counterintuitive feature (not bug) among all frontier labs in China, the US, and elsewhere. No other frontier AGI-pilled lab anywhere has this edge."

Jan. 16, 2026. "State Grid, the largest electrical utility in China and the world, announced it would increase investment in infrastructure over the next five years through 2030, marking a 40 per cent increase from the preceding five-year period and a record investment for the state-backed giant. The funds would be used to build a “new type of power system”, with targets including adding 200 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity annually and increasing the share of non-fossil fuel generated electricity consumption to 25 per cent by 2030, State Grid said. China tops all countries with a third of global electricity generation volume due to aggressive government planning."

El Niño interviewing the impressive Mark Collett. Anyone seriously interested in the UK needs to watch the whole 1:30 hrs.

"Over the past year, the AI industry has announced more than half a trillion dollars of infrastructure commitments. When there's no external validation of multi-billion-dollar deals, how can the market price them? These headline figures are being priced as if they represent binding, time-certain capex commitments. In reality, the disclosed language and the missing definitions make many of them look more like optionality dressed up as commitment. . . Half a trillion dollars in headlines. Thin, non-standard disclosure. The market is being asked to trust, without the tools to verify."

Another Western Investor objecting the Founding Conglomerate's efforts to consolidate share holdings under the Founder's Family. Note: Singer expected to make Millions on Venezuela_Proper and CITGO Scenarios

This is Russian commentary, not Kiev BS: "Two years ago, the Kiev Regime created the "Office for Supporting Changes within the Ministry of Defense of the Ukraine." The Russian KTsPN analytical center has translated a report from that office from Ukrainian into Russian. The report contains exaggerations, but it is a telling example of the enemy's actions in attempts to change something in the military sphere and deserves study. . . . The enemy is promoting a strategy of a long and expensive war for Russia, to squeeze every last drop of economic life out of us, and bankrupt us in the long run. To have 20 or more drones per infantryman. Sadly, the enemy is succeeding."

The Unit 8200 virus is the biggest threat to Western cybersecurity, but instead we ban Huawei.

Export dependent nations are squeezing their own productivity, their governments are subsidizing the critical industries, and the tariffs are being absorbed before the products leave the docks. This is the USA “rust belt” in reverse. The same scenario played out in the USA for decades as domestic manufacturers tried to retain U.S. industry. Now the foreign countries are experiencing their own economic squeeze.

2025 3rd warmest year, with 2023~2025 being the warmest 3yr cluster of Record. ¹(Jan2025 to Dec2025) - **2015ParisConf projected Mar2045 for temps staying above 1.5°C; ²Estimated Temp Avgs 1850~1900; ³47yr Satellite Records. Climate is dynamic and always changing…

The countries include Somalia, Russia, Afghanistan, Brazil, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Thailand, Yemen and more. The pause will begin Jan. 21 and will continue indefinitely until the department conducts a reassessment of immigrant visa processing.

"In 2013, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) made a $10 billion bet on a single customer. Morris Chang committed to building 20nm capacity with uncertain economics on the promise that Apple would fill those fabs. “I bet the company, but I didn’t think I would lose,” Chang later said. He was right. Apple’s A8 chip launched in 2014, and TSMC never looked back."

US toy maker Mattel has released the first autistic Barbie doll, expanding its flagship line as part of what the company says is a broader effort to showcase diversity and inclusion. The doll was developed with guidance from the autistic community over more than 18 months, Mattel said. It is the newest addition to the ‘Barbie Fashionistas’ line, which already includes dolls representing people with type 1 diabetes, Down syndrome, and blindness, and is designed so that more children “see themselves in Barbie.”

The Assad regime was hobbled by U.S. sanctions and constant hostility from Israel, but it mostly kept a lid on sectarian and ethnic divisions.

Yes, protests continue in some parts of the country, but Iranian security forces have taken off the gloves and are fighting back. Casualty estimates are all over the board… Ranging from hundreds to thousands dead. Iranian officials have announced that the alleged ring leaders of the violent protests will be publicly executed starting Wednesday.

On Tuesday, France’s National Federation of Agricultural Producers’ Unions (FNSEA) brought 353 tractors to the vicinity of the National Assembly in Paris to demand urgent measures to prevent the formalization of the free trade agreement (FTA) with the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR).

"This was a great show and if you spent enough time on the floor (I did so you don't have to), you could see it really did live up to both marketing taglines: “The Future Is Here” and “Innovators Show Up” . . . " See also: https://www.ces.tech/

This is directed at fifth columns and regime change actors, who use public utilities to pass information.

Trained walrus Rep. Randy Fine (R-Tel Aviv) has made yet another big splash for the Zionist Empire and introduced a bill to make Greenland the 51st state in the U.S., following President Trump’s recent push to acquire the Danish territory. The “Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act” was introduced by the Florida Republican on Monday, his office said in a press release. The bill’s goals, according to its text, include enabling “the annexation and subsequent admission to statehood of Greenland” and providing "abundant walrus mating opportunities in Greenland for walrus-adjacent people like Rep. Fine."

Glenn Greenwald (who grew up in South Florida): "Ron DeSantis Twice Went to Israel to Sign Censorship Laws." DeSantis repeatedly violated the US Constitution in order to obtain Zionist approval and campaign donations for his 2028 presidential campaign. As Tucker Carlson noted, these brazenly treasonous actions are part of the Zionists' ritual humiliation of the citizens of the USA.

Over the past months, the US has been escalating aggression against Venezuela, but this abduction is the culmination of over two decades of imperialist war. In fact, it was predicted 20 years ago this year by Hugo Chávez, the first president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, at an address to the UN General Assembly.

Netanyahu is dropping in popularity, as his time in office is running out and charges hang over him.

Sunday night futures for Dow, S&P500, and NASDAQ down significantly, gold heading past $4,600 per ounce. Jerome Powell releases statement on 01/11/2026. Powell's video of his statement was posted on YouTube on Sunday at approximately 7:00 p.m. Eastern. Let's see what the bond market vigilantes do starting Monday.

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Annnddd… Just like that, President Trump wins again. -- Seriously folks, you would think that after all this time the Europeans would finally understand how President Trump manipulates the media cycle and gets them to do exactly what he wants, while they and the majority of their constituents think it’s exactly the opposite. This stuff is just too funny now. -- The U.K, France and Germany are unwilling to send troops into Ukraine without the protection of the U.S. military. But somehow, for some reason, the U.K, France and Germany are going to send troops to Greenland to defend against the U.S. military.

Ricardo Teixeira, Daily Friend Associate Editor, joins Chris Hattingh to discuss the multinational naval exercise Will for Peace, set to start in South African territorial waters on 9 January 2026.

The country on strike. Massive numbers on the streets. Internet cut. Mullahs seen at Moscow airport. Yet the regime still shoot at protestors. Many dead. But the people keep on coming. The courage of our fellow human beings is staggering. #IranRevolution2026 Tehran tonight ⬇️ -- Note: There is AI slop out there. Keep a careful eye out for fakes.

Anna Paulina Luna, a US Republican congresswoman and ally of Donald Trump, warned she would bring forward legislation to “sanction not only Starmer, but Britain as a whole” if it moved to ban the social media platform.

Hamas struggles against an unjust, pejorative 'terror' label. Starmer has fallen in spite of being propped up by the establishment.