NORTH KOREA - Starting last July, a US Navy nuclear-armed submarine made a port call in South Korea - something which hadn't happened since 1981. As expected, North Korea began immediately ramping up its ballistic missile tests and military drills near the border, and there have been escalating threats and counter-threats since. The New York Times is reporting that the Kim Jong-un government has plans for escalation, saying that it will soon launch some kind of lethal military action against the south, but will still seek to avoid a full-scale war.

USA - Elon Musk has divided fans after announcing that his controversial Neuralink brain chip has been implanted in a human. The Neuralink tech aims to enable someone to control their phone or another device with their mind, according to Musk. Elon Musk announced on Monday that the first human test subject has undergone a Neuralink implant placement and preliminary results are promising. The technology was developed primarily to 'restore autonomy' to individuals whose medical status reduced their mobility, like those with ALS, the company has said. "Initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs. Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist or auctioneer. That is the goal."

USA - On some level, most people can feel what is coming. That is why sales of emergency food are at record levels, shows about survival are among the most popular on television, and Mark Zuckerberg is building a “self-sustaining doomsday bunker” in Hawaii. For example, the following comes from an article posted on Yahoo News entitled “As war creeps closer to Armageddon, the end of days doesn’t seem so far away”… From Megiddo’s hilltop, there is a great view of the West Bank, no more than two miles away.

UK - Science is not perfect, and real scientists readily admit it when they are wrong. Anyone who says the "Science is settled" is not being scientific, they are being propagandistic! One of the most famous hoaxes was the Piltdown Man. In 1921, a lawyer and amateur archaeologist, Charles Dawson, claimed to have the bones of an early hominid. While there were a few doubters, most of Britain's scientists and the public celebrated the repost, seeing it as a boost to the reputation of the nation. Awards were heaped on Dawson. Hundreds of scientific papers were written studying the Piltdown Man.

GERMANY - German chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday warned of a rise in extreme-right sentiment in his country, some 79 years to the day after the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp by Soviet forces on January 27, 1945. In a recorded message delivered as Germany marked Holocaust Memorial Day, Scholz cautioned that “new reports” are frequently emerging about what he described as “neo-Nazis and their dark networks.” In his address, Scholz – Germany’s leader since December 2021 – also warned of a festering right-wing influence gaining foothold in the country, which remains perpetually linked to its dark history of Nazism. “At the same time, right-wing populists are gaining ground,” Scholz said, “fueling fear and sowing hatred,” before adding that “this development is not something we simply have to accept.” Scholz’s comments come amid a spate of public protests in Germany against far-right political parties.

GERMANY - There’s currently no threat of Russia attacking NATO or any of the partners of the US-led military bloc, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has suggested. Moscow’s military is now fully occupied with the Ukraine conflict, Pistorius explained, in an interview with the tabloid Bild on Friday. ”At the moment, I don’t see any danger of a Russian attack on NATO territory or on any NATO partner-country,” he added. However, the minister stressed that this is just a “snapshot” of the current situation and there’s no way of knowing how things would turn out in the future.

USA - Jamie Dimon calls for the snowballing US debt burden to be addressed before it turns into crisis. The US economy is heading towards disaster as the vast national debt continues to mount, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said in an interview with Fox News earlier this week. According to the chief executive of the nation’s largest bank, the situation urgently needs to be tackled by the government before it causes a major economic crisis. The top executive agreed with the view of former House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has called the snowballing debt “the most predictable crisis we’ve ever had.” The warnings were issued by Ryan and Dimon during a panel discussion at the Bipartisan Policy Center on Friday. US government federal debt topped $34 trillion for the first time in history at the end of December. In 2023 alone, it grew by more than $4 trillion.

JORDAN - The deaths of three US soldiers in a drone attack by Iran-backed militants in Jordan risks further inflaming the on-going crisis in the Middle East, experts have warned. The attack on the US base, which Iran said it was not involved in, marks a major escalation in tensions that have already engulfed the region, amid concerns Israel's war against the Iran-backed Hamas terror group in Gaza could spread into a wider conflict involving Iran's proxies in Lebanon, Yemen and Iraq.

USA - I have come to the depressing conclusion that the white ethnicities that constituted the nations of Western Civilization have degenerated into such insouciance and stupidity that they have no possibility of survival. They sit mindlessly in front of TV absorbing their brainwashing and indoctrination. They can’t pay their rent, mortgage or car payments, but they pay endlessly for care of immigrant-invaders who are overwhelming their communities with material needs.

EUROPE - Major European cities in France, Germany and Belgium were placed under siege by militant farmers across the continent tonight. Armoured cars and 5,000 extra police surrounded Paris on Monday as a 'quasi-military' blockade swung into action, while police in Hamburg, Germany, were called out to deal with farmers who have been protesting Chancellor Olaf Scholz's decision to cut subsidies. Over in Belgium, a minister was forced to evacuate the site of a protest on a major highway in the Walloon region.

AFRICA - How information technology became a powerful tool for provoking armed conflicts on the continent. All wars on the African continent fall into one of four categories:

• Inter-ethnic conflicts - these are caused by the fact that virtually all African states, with few exceptions, are multi-ethnic and the peoples living on their territories encounter contradictions that come to be resolved by force of arms.


• Border conflicts - caused by the fact that in most African countries, national borders do not coincide with the borders of settlement which separate tribes and nationalities, because the European colonizers, when they divided Africa, did not take into account the borders between the ancient territories of different peoples.


• Religious conflicts - associated with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and extremism.


• Socio-economic conflicts - many countries in Africa have socio-economic problems that are a source of growing protest. Information technology - especially social networks and artificial intelligence - is a powerful tool capable of igniting armed conflict in virtually any state on the continent.

CHINA - Chinese state media on Friday mocked the Biden administration for requesting China’s help with the Red Sea shipping crisis. A group of anonymous Iranian officials told Reuters that while Beijing is not interested in helping the United States, it has informed the Iranians that attacks by their Houthi terrorist proxies in Yemen must not damage China’s interests in any way. Biden administration officials have been flummoxed that China did not take action on its own when rising shipping costs began hurting Chinese companies. The administration has grown increasingly explicit over the past few weeks about asking Beijing to exert its influence with Iran to make the Houthis back down.

UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) reported on Thursday that the volume of freight passing through the Suez Canal has dropped by 45 percent in two months due to relentless attacks on Red Sea shipping by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen. UNCTAD said 39 percent fewer ships have passed through the Suez Canal thanks to Houthi terrorism, a major blow to one of the world’s most important shipping routes. The decline has intensified in the new year, with an astounding 82 percent reduction in container shipments through the Canal in the month ending January 19. This reduction in shipping supply naturally caused prices to skyrocket, although, thankfully, they still have not reached the devastating heights of the coronavirus pandemic. Shipping costs are rising sharply even in routes not directly connected to the Red Sea or Suez Canal.

USA - Ten retired FBI officials and experts in counterintelligence sent a letter to Congressional leaders warning that the Biden administration's policies have facilitated a "soft invasion" of military-age men into the United States from terror-linked areas of the world. The letter, written on January 17, before Texas Governor Greg Abbott invoked the invasion clause of the US Constitution, suggests that a terrorist attack is likely imminent. "The threat we call out today is new and unfamiliar. In its modern history the US has never suffered an invasion of the homeland, and, yet, one is unfolding now," the letter reads.

USA - Texas Governor Greg Abbott spoke with Tucker Carlson on Friday, telling him that he's going to "do as much as possible to put up more border barriers and deny illegal entry," and that "our head is down, we are working regardless of what the Biden Administration is doing." Abbott told Carlson that he's "prepared" in the event that Biden tries to take over the Texas National Guard. "That would be a boneheaded move on his part, a total disaster," he said. "We are prepared, in the event that that unlikely event does occur." "We do have other armed state employees on the border as we speak right this minute, and that’s the Texas Department of Public Safety, as well as other law enforcement officers, as well as National Guard from other states. And you can be assured there will be more National Guard from other states and more law enforcement officers within the state of Texas and other states."