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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
:: 1-1-26 New York Post :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
US dollar posts worst year since 2017 as Fed turmoil, tariffs bite hammered currency
By Ariel Zilber
Published Jan. 1, 2026, 11:25 a.m. ET
The US dollar ended the year with its worst performance since 2017 as Federal Reserve turmoil, trade shocks and economic uncertainty hammered the greenback.
The dollar finished the year down about 8% compared to a basket of foreign currencies, according to the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index.
That was sharpest annual retreat for US currency in eight years.
The US dollar was hit hard in 2025 due to tariffs and turmoil at the Federal Reserve.
Some measures show losses closer to 9% to 10% after a historic first-half slide that erased a decade’s worth of gains from the dollar’s long bull run.
The dollar selloff accelerated after President Trump’s April “Liberation Day” tariffs rattled global markets and raised fears of lasting damage to US growth.
The currency never fully recovered as its decline coincided with stubbornly high inflation that limited the Fed’s flexibility — even as growth slowed.
Core inflation hovered near 3%, while tariffs added fresh price pressure and pushed consumer inflation expectations sharply higher through the summer.
Foreign investors also began pulling back.
China cut its holdings of US Treasuries to the lowest level since 2008, while global asset managers increased hedges against dollar weakness — a move that effectively reduced demand for the currency.
Investors now warn the pain may not be over, with the Fed expected to cut rates further in 2026 and Trump openly pushing for a more dovish central bank chief.
“The biggest factor for the dollar in first quarter will be the Fed,” Yusuke Miyairi, a foreign-exchange strategist at Nomura, told Bloomberg News.
“And it’s not just the meetings in January and March, but who will be the Fed Chair after Jerome Powell ends his term.”
Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council in the White House, is considered the frontrunner to succeed Powell in May.
While he’s widely viewed as being in accord with the president’s economic worldview, he has insisted Trump would “have no weight” in the Federal Reserve’s decisions if he becomes chair.
At least two US rate cuts are already priced in for next year, undercutting the dollar’s yield advantage just as Treasury yields slid from above 4.5% early in the year to near 4.1% by December.
The damage was most dramatic in the first half of 2025, when the dollar suffered its steepest six-month decline in more than half a century. A brief July bounce faded quickly as worries about growth, politics and trade returned.
Trump’s April 2 tariff blitz proved a turning point.
The president invoked emergency powers to impose a 10% baseline tariff on nearly all imports, with higher “reciprocal” duties aimed at countries running trade surpluses with the US.
Global markets plunged. The S&P 500 sank more than 13% in less than a week, while the dollar tumbled as investors rushed for safety.
Although the White House paused the harshest tariffs days later, the baseline levy stayed in place — and so did the uncertainty. Economists warned the policy would raise prices, hit demand and invite retaliation.
Those fears lingered throughout the year, weighing on the currency even as stocks recovered.
By late summer, the focus shifted squarely to the Federal Reserve.
After holding rates steady for months, policymakers began cutting as signs of labor-market weakness mounted.
The Fed delivered a quarter-point cut in September and another in December, responding to rising unemployment and slowing payroll growth — a sharp reversal from the aggressive tightening that propped up the dollar in prior years.
Traders quickly positioned for more. Futures markets now anticipate additional cuts in 2026, with expectations ranging from one to four reductions.
The Post has sought comment from the White House and the Fed.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Iran Protests Spread to 21 Provinces Amid Reports of IRGC Chemical, Biological Weapons Production
Julie Stahl 01-02-2026
JERUSALEM, Israel – Iranian protests over the flailing economy are spreading even as Iran is reportedly developing chemical and biological missile warheads.
Violent protests throughout Iran forced a government shutdown in 21 provinces as unrest spread over skyrocketing prices and economic collapse.
Businesses, universities, and government offices closed in response to the regime's shutdown.
The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) showed footage online of violent confrontations between security forces and protesters. in various provinces. Shouts of "Death to the dictator" and "Death to Khamenei" rang out, as at least seven people were killed.
The protests are the largest in Iran since 2022, when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody, detained over not wearing her hijab correctly.
Israeli-Iranian actress and commentator Sarah Fakheri says these protests are different from those in the past.
She said, "If the past protests were just 'Death to the dictator' or 'Get this regime down' without any definition of who is going to rule Iran after this one has a leader – [this time] they call for [Crown Prince Reza] Pahlavi back."
Fakheri added that Iran has gone from being an "amazing country" with abilities and natural resources to a state where people don't have money for bread. She contends that Iranians have been crying out for help for a long time.
She noted, "I've been receiving messages all the time from Iranians who are asking [for] Israel's support to eliminate this regime. Do I think that it should be someone else's job? No. Do I think that we can support and be the voice of support to those people? Yes."
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the current economic crisis on an ongoing war with Iran's enemies.
"We are engaged in a full-scale war," he said. "Right now, the enemy has placed most of its hopes on knocking us down through economic pressure. You cannot conquer a nation with bombs, fighter jets, or missiles. To defeat us, they would have to come and face us on the ground."
The protests come amid reports that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is developing chemical and biological warheads for its ballistic missiles.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the possibility of a second strike on Iran this year in a meeting with President Trump in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Trump's response was positive.
"I hope they're not trying to build up again because if they are, we're going to have no choice but very quickly to eradicate that buildup," Trump declared.
Netanyahu returned to Israel on Friday after spending several days in Florida, including as a guest at the president's and his wife, Melania's, New Year's Eve celebration.
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Trump says US ‘not afraid of boots on the ground’ in Venezuela after Nicolás Maduro capture
By Geoff Earle
Published Jan. 3, 2026 Updated Jan. 3, 2026, 1:40 p.m. ET
President Trump told the nation the US would now take over running Venezuela, after strongman Nicolas Maduro was captured “in the dead of night.”
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said at a press conference from his Mar-a-Lago resort as he provided new details on the stunning military operation.
“We’re going to run it, essentially” through the transition, he said.
The logistics of a US-run Venezuela were still being worked out, but Trump said it might involve military “boots on the ground.”
“We’re not afraid of boots on the ground if we have to,” the president said. “We had boots on the ground last night, at a very high level, actually.”
Later, Trump added, “We’re going to have [a] presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.”
In a strong assertion of US national prerogative in the hemisphere, Trump said he had one-upped the Monroe Doctrine of the nation’s early history.
“They now call it the Don-roe doctrine,” Trump quipped, while flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
He brushed off questions about the US’s record of running countries in Latin America over the last century and even whether it was consistent with his “America First” mantra.
“We’re going to run the country right, it’s going to be run very judiciously, very fairly,” Trump said.
The president indicated the military had been “prepared to do a second wave” if needed.
He said his advisors assumed such a wave would be necessary — only one was needed.
He also described an effort to bring back US oil companies who had their infrastructure confiscated by the regime, and use the stolen funds to help compensate Venezuelans who fled to the US.
“We’re going to reimburse people that were taken advantage of,” Trump said.
“We have to rebuild their whole infrastructure.”
Trump also indicated Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wasn’t up to the task of governing.
“I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country,” he opined. “She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect in Venezuela.”
Rubio, meanwhile, had spoken to Maduro’s VP, Delcy Rodriguez, Trump said.
“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” said Trump.
“We’re designating people. We’re talking to people. We’re designating various people. We’ll let you know who those people are.”
Trump also addressed Venezuela’s substantial oil resources, saying its oil production has been a “total bust for a long period of time.”
“They were pumping almost nothing,” Trump said.
He said what the US would accomplish “will make the people of Venezuela rich, independent and safe” – after millions fled under years of dictatorship.
Trump said Maduro oversaw a “vicious cartel” and was responsible for the deaths of “countless Americans” and called him an “illegitimate dictator.”
He called Maduro the “kingpin of a vast criminal network,” and indicated prosecutors would decide if Maduro would be tried in New York or in Miami, which is where Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was tried decades ago.
The president called the operation that took down Maduro “one of the most stunning effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history.”
“Not a single American service member was killed” and no US equipment was lost in the operation, Trump said, describing the mission.
“It was dark. The lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have. It was dark. And it was deadly” he said.
Trump addressed the nation hours after US special forces snatched the Venezuelan dictator and his wife Cilia Flores. The couple is currently headed to New York City.
Attorney General Pam Bondi posted that the pair had been indicted in the Southern District of New York, referencing a 2020 indictment on drug conspiracy and other charges.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” she said on X. The attack came overnight, with at least seven blasts heard over Caracas. Targets included military bases and airports.
Trump in an earlier interview with Fox & Friends said Maduro was en route to New York aboard the USS Iwo Jima, an amphibious assault ship.
“They’ll be heading to New York – you know they were indicted in New York,” Trump said. “The helicopters took them out … They killed a lot of people, remember,” Trump said.
The political future of Venezuela remains murky. Strongman Hugo Chavez took power in 1999 and was succeeded by Maduro.
Trump said his team was “making the decision” for who would govern Venezuela now that Maduro is en route to New York to face charges.
“We’ll be involved in it very much. And we want to do liberty for the people. We want to have a great relationship,” he added.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/03/world-news/trump-says-us-will-now-take-over-running-venezuela
-after-nicolas-maduro-was-captured-in-the-dead-of-night/
:: 12-27-25 Gateway Pundit :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: :: ::
Cleveland Clinic Flu Shots Study Shows Vaccine INCREASED Risk of Getting the Flu
by Jim Hᴏft Dec. 27, 2025 10:30 am
For decades, Americans have been lectured, pressured, and in many cases coerced into getting annual flu shots under the promise that “the science is settled” and that vaccination is an unquestionable public good.
But a growing body of research is blowing that narrative apart, and the latest data are nothing short of explosive.
A new study from the prestigious Cleveland Clinic has found that the 2024-2025 flu shot not only failed to protect people but also increased their risk of contracting the flu.
The study, published as a preprint on medRxiv and led by Dr. Nabin K. Shrestha and colleagues from the Departments of Infectious Diseases, Infection Prevention, and Quantitative Health Sciences, tracked 53,402 Cleveland Clinic employees across Ohio during the 2024–2025 respiratory viral season, which began on October 1, 2024.
By the end of the 25-week observation period (ending March 26, 2025), 82.1% of the cohort (43,857 individuals) had been vaccinated, primarily with the trivalent inactivated vaccine.
A total of 1,079 employees (2.02%) tested positive for influenza, with 98.8% being influenza A cases.
Using a time-dependent analysis (treating vaccination as a variable that changes over time), the researchers calculated a vaccine effectiveness of -26.9% (95% CI: -51.0% to -6.6%). This means vaccinated individuals had a 27% higher hazard ratio (HR 1.27) for contracting influenza compared to unvaccinated ones, after adjusting for factors like age, sex, job type (e.g., clinical nursing), and work location.
The study addressed potential biases by examining testing rates. Vaccinated employees were more likely to get tested, but the proportion of positive tests was similar between groups, suggesting the higher infection rate wasn’t due to testing differences but actual increased susceptibility.
A Simon-Makuch plot showed that early in the season, infection rates were similar, but they rose more rapidly among the vaccinated over time.
Graph comparing cumulative incidence of influenza in vaccinated versus unvaccinated individuals during the 2024-2025 respiratory viral season, highlighting vaccination effectiveness.
The study population was relatively young (mean age 42) and healthy, with 75% female and about 20% in clinical nursing roles.
The authors concluded: “Among 53402 working-aged Cleveland Clinic employees, we were unable to find a protective influence of influenza vaccination during the 2024-2025 respiratory viral season and found a significantly higher risk of influenza with vaccination when influenza activity was high.“
For the full study, check out the medRxiv preprint here: Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024-2025 Respiratory Viral Season.
Jim Hᴏft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/cleveland-clinic-flu-shots-study-shows-vaccine-increased/
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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Chilling omen of house price crash as America's No 2 homebuilder forced to slash prices by 10%
READ MORE: Another bourbon distiller files for bankruptcy as sector collapses
By MARTHA WILLIAMS, US REAL ESTATE & CONSUMER REPORTER
Published: 00:22 EST, 31 December 2025 | Updated: 05:53 EST, 31 December 2025
America’s housing market is flashing a fresh warning sign that prices are falling — and it’s coming from one of its biggest players.
Lennar, the second-largest US homebuilder, was forced to slash the cost of its houses by 10 percent in the final three months of 2025 as buyers disappeared.
It is a chilling signal of what may be coming next — not just for other new-builds, but for the roughly 130 million existing houses, apartments and condos across America.
Big builders like Lennar act as a canary in the coal mine for the wider housing market because they have no escape hatch.
Unlike most ordinary homeowners, who can pull a listing and wait if they don’t get their price, builders are stuck with new-builds that generate costs every day they sit unsold.
When buyers disappear, cutting prices becomes the only option. The typical Lennar home cost $386,000 in late-2025, compared to $430,000 during the same period in 2024.
The average existing home in the US is worth $360,000. If it's value dropped by the same percentage, the typical American homeowner would see their biggest asset drop by in value by $36,000.
Lennar’s price cuts, revealed in its latest quarterly earnings, show how quickly pressure is building across the housing market.
Despite selling more homes, the company’s revenue from home sales fell seven percent year-on-year to $8.9 billion in the final quarter, as lower prices more than offset higher volumes.
Lennar’s average selling price is now down 21 percent from its pandemic-era peak.
Stuart Miller, Lennar’s chairman and co-CEO, said it had also been forced to offer incentives, which typically mean things like free carpets or money towards deposits, on top of price cuts.
He said that because the market is still unpredictable, the company cannot be sure what will happen in 2026 but hopes to sell around 85,000 homes.
The stress is not confined to one builder.
For as far back as records go, new homes have almost always cost more to buy than existing properties.
This isn't surprising — new-builds have all the latest features and appliances, and they come without the wear and tear of previously-owned properties.
However, over the summer that trend turned completely upside down.
In June, the median sales price of a new home was $407,200 — around $28,000 cheaper than that of existing homes, and a 6.5 percent discount, according to Realtor.com.
Experts have chalked up the reversal to classic supply and demand.
Construction companies became giddy during the pandemic — when demand for housing was through the roof, especially in sunny Southern boomtowns — and built slews of homes to satisfy buyers' needs.
However, as the Covid boom slowed, it became clear that builders had added far more homes than there were people to buy them.
Building companies were forced to cut costs, which left brand new homes to be sold at far cheaper prices than older homes, foreshadowing a potential market crash.
De-listings also surged this year, indicating that if homeowners cannot sell their house for the price they desire, they are willing to take the property off the market and wait for a better time to sell.
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etc.. the cost of things, because they have gone over the cliff, shall skyrocket and taxes, taxes, it shall be like in the days of old when everyone will have to bring their taxes in and they will be condemned and judged if they do not. Oh the things that are going to take place now, the things that you haven’t even thought of, the things that you haven’t been aware of, but I have told you, I have warned you. I have tried to prepare you that you would be totally ready, that you wouldn’t have to run real fast to make up time, but that you would be walking right by my side. etc..
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US dollar posts worst year since 2017 as Fed turmoil, tariffs bite hammered currency
By Ariel Zilber
Published Jan. 1, 2026, 11:25 a.m. ET
The US dollar ended the year with its worst performance since 2017 as Federal Reserve turmoil, trade shocks and economic uncertainty hammered the greenback.
The dollar finished the year down about 8% compared to a basket of foreign currencies, according to the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index.
That was sharpest annual retreat for US currency in eight years.
The US dollar was hit hard in 2025 due to tariffs and turmoil at the Federal Reserve.
Some measures show losses closer to 9% to 10% after a historic first-half slide that erased a decade’s worth of gains from the dollar’s long bull run.
The dollar selloff accelerated after President Trump’s April “Liberation Day” tariffs rattled global markets and raised fears of lasting damage to US growth.
The currency never fully recovered as its decline coincided with stubbornly high inflation that limited the Fed’s flexibility — even as growth slowed.
Core inflation hovered near 3%, while tariffs added fresh price pressure and pushed consumer inflation expectations sharply higher through the summer.
Foreign investors also began pulling back.
China cut its holdings of US Treasuries to the lowest level since 2008, while global asset managers increased hedges against dollar weakness — a move that effectively reduced demand for the currency.
Investors now warn the pain may not be over, with the Fed expected to cut rates further in 2026 and Trump openly pushing for a more dovish central bank chief.
“The biggest factor for the dollar in first quarter will be the Fed,” Yusuke Miyairi, a foreign-exchange strategist at Nomura, told Bloomberg News.
“And it’s not just the meetings in January and March, but who will be the Fed Chair after Jerome Powell ends his term.”
Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council in the White House, is considered the frontrunner to succeed Powell in May.
While he’s widely viewed as being in accord with the president’s economic worldview, he has insisted Trump would “have no weight” in the Federal Reserve’s decisions if he becomes chair.
At least two US rate cuts are already priced in for next year, undercutting the dollar’s yield advantage just as Treasury yields slid from above 4.5% early in the year to near 4.1% by December.
The damage was most dramatic in the first half of 2025, when the dollar suffered its steepest six-month decline in more than half a century. A brief July bounce faded quickly as worries about growth, politics and trade returned.
Trump’s April 2 tariff blitz proved a turning point.
The president invoked emergency powers to impose a 10% baseline tariff on nearly all imports, with higher “reciprocal” duties aimed at countries running trade surpluses with the US.
Global markets plunged. The S&P 500 sank more than 13% in less than a week, while the dollar tumbled as investors rushed for safety.
Although the White House paused the harshest tariffs days later, the baseline levy stayed in place — and so did the uncertainty. Economists warned the policy would raise prices, hit demand and invite retaliation.
Those fears lingered throughout the year, weighing on the currency even as stocks recovered.
By late summer, the focus shifted squarely to the Federal Reserve.
After holding rates steady for months, policymakers began cutting as signs of labor-market weakness mounted.
The Fed delivered a quarter-point cut in September and another in December, responding to rising unemployment and slowing payroll growth — a sharp reversal from the aggressive tightening that propped up the dollar in prior years.
Traders quickly positioned for more. Futures markets now anticipate additional cuts in 2026, with expectations ranging from one to four reductions.
The Post has sought comment from the White House and the Fed.
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etc. Keep your eyes; keep your eyes upon what is going on in the Mid-East, that is your tree, that is your tree, I have told you to watch Israel, that is your tree. etc.
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Iran Protests Spread to 21 Provinces Amid Reports of IRGC Chemical, Biological Weapons Production
Julie Stahl 01-02-2026
JERUSALEM, Israel – Iranian protests over the flailing economy are spreading even as Iran is reportedly developing chemical and biological missile warheads.
Violent protests throughout Iran forced a government shutdown in 21 provinces as unrest spread over skyrocketing prices and economic collapse.
Businesses, universities, and government offices closed in response to the regime's shutdown.
The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK) showed footage online of violent confrontations between security forces and protesters. in various provinces. Shouts of "Death to the dictator" and "Death to Khamenei" rang out, as at least seven people were killed.
The protests are the largest in Iran since 2022, when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody, detained over not wearing her hijab correctly.
Israeli-Iranian actress and commentator Sarah Fakheri says these protests are different from those in the past.
She said, "If the past protests were just 'Death to the dictator' or 'Get this regime down' without any definition of who is going to rule Iran after this one has a leader – [this time] they call for [Crown Prince Reza] Pahlavi back."
Fakheri added that Iran has gone from being an "amazing country" with abilities and natural resources to a state where people don't have money for bread. She contends that Iranians have been crying out for help for a long time.
She noted, "I've been receiving messages all the time from Iranians who are asking [for] Israel's support to eliminate this regime. Do I think that it should be someone else's job? No. Do I think that we can support and be the voice of support to those people? Yes."
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian blamed the current economic crisis on an ongoing war with Iran's enemies.
"We are engaged in a full-scale war," he said. "Right now, the enemy has placed most of its hopes on knocking us down through economic pressure. You cannot conquer a nation with bombs, fighter jets, or missiles. To defeat us, they would have to come and face us on the ground."
The protests come amid reports that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is developing chemical and biological warheads for its ballistic missiles.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed the possibility of a second strike on Iran this year in a meeting with President Trump in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. Trump's response was positive.
"I hope they're not trying to build up again because if they are, we're going to have no choice but very quickly to eradicate that buildup," Trump declared.
Netanyahu returned to Israel on Friday after spending several days in Florida, including as a guest at the president's and his wife, Melania's, New Year's Eve celebration.
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Trump says US ‘not afraid of boots on the ground’ in Venezuela after Nicolás Maduro capture
By Geoff Earle
Published Jan. 3, 2026 Updated Jan. 3, 2026, 1:40 p.m. ET
President Trump told the nation the US would now take over running Venezuela, after strongman Nicolas Maduro was captured “in the dead of night.”
“We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said at a press conference from his Mar-a-Lago resort as he provided new details on the stunning military operation.
“We’re going to run it, essentially” through the transition, he said.
The logistics of a US-run Venezuela were still being worked out, but Trump said it might involve military “boots on the ground.”
“We’re not afraid of boots on the ground if we have to,” the president said. “We had boots on the ground last night, at a very high level, actually.”
Later, Trump added, “We’re going to have [a] presence in Venezuela as it pertains to oil.”
In a strong assertion of US national prerogative in the hemisphere, Trump said he had one-upped the Monroe Doctrine of the nation’s early history.
“They now call it the Don-roe doctrine,” Trump quipped, while flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe.
He brushed off questions about the US’s record of running countries in Latin America over the last century and even whether it was consistent with his “America First” mantra.
“We’re going to run the country right, it’s going to be run very judiciously, very fairly,” Trump said.
The president indicated the military had been “prepared to do a second wave” if needed.
He said his advisors assumed such a wave would be necessary — only one was needed.
He also described an effort to bring back US oil companies who had their infrastructure confiscated by the regime, and use the stolen funds to help compensate Venezuelans who fled to the US.
“We’re going to reimburse people that were taken advantage of,” Trump said.
“We have to rebuild their whole infrastructure.”
Trump also indicated Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wasn’t up to the task of governing.
“I think it would be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn’t have the support within or the respect within the country,” he opined. “She’s a very nice woman, but she doesn’t have the respect in Venezuela.”
Rubio, meanwhile, had spoken to Maduro’s VP, Delcy Rodriguez, Trump said.
“She’s essentially willing to do what we think is necessary to make Venezuela great again,” said Trump.
“We’re designating people. We’re talking to people. We’re designating various people. We’ll let you know who those people are.”
Trump also addressed Venezuela’s substantial oil resources, saying its oil production has been a “total bust for a long period of time.”
“They were pumping almost nothing,” Trump said.
He said what the US would accomplish “will make the people of Venezuela rich, independent and safe” – after millions fled under years of dictatorship.
Trump said Maduro oversaw a “vicious cartel” and was responsible for the deaths of “countless Americans” and called him an “illegitimate dictator.”
He called Maduro the “kingpin of a vast criminal network,” and indicated prosecutors would decide if Maduro would be tried in New York or in Miami, which is where Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was tried decades ago.
The president called the operation that took down Maduro “one of the most stunning effective and powerful displays of American military might and competence in American history.”
“Not a single American service member was killed” and no US equipment was lost in the operation, Trump said, describing the mission.
“It was dark. The lights of Caracas were largely turned off due to a certain expertise that we have. It was dark. And it was deadly” he said.
Trump addressed the nation hours after US special forces snatched the Venezuelan dictator and his wife Cilia Flores. The couple is currently headed to New York City.
Attorney General Pam Bondi posted that the pair had been indicted in the Southern District of New York, referencing a 2020 indictment on drug conspiracy and other charges.
“They will soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts,” she said on X. The attack came overnight, with at least seven blasts heard over Caracas. Targets included military bases and airports.
Trump in an earlier interview with Fox & Friends said Maduro was en route to New York aboard the USS Iwo Jima, an amphibious assault ship.
“They’ll be heading to New York – you know they were indicted in New York,” Trump said. “The helicopters took them out … They killed a lot of people, remember,” Trump said.
The political future of Venezuela remains murky. Strongman Hugo Chavez took power in 1999 and was succeeded by Maduro.
Trump said his team was “making the decision” for who would govern Venezuela now that Maduro is en route to New York to face charges.
“We’ll be involved in it very much. And we want to do liberty for the people. We want to have a great relationship,” he added.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/03/world-news/trump-says-us-will-now-take-over-running-venezuela
-after-nicolas-maduro-was-captured-in-the-dead-of-night/
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Cleveland Clinic Flu Shots Study Shows Vaccine INCREASED Risk of Getting the Flu
by Jim Hᴏft Dec. 27, 2025 10:30 am
For decades, Americans have been lectured, pressured, and in many cases coerced into getting annual flu shots under the promise that “the science is settled” and that vaccination is an unquestionable public good.
But a growing body of research is blowing that narrative apart, and the latest data are nothing short of explosive.
A new study from the prestigious Cleveland Clinic has found that the 2024-2025 flu shot not only failed to protect people but also increased their risk of contracting the flu.
The study, published as a preprint on medRxiv and led by Dr. Nabin K. Shrestha and colleagues from the Departments of Infectious Diseases, Infection Prevention, and Quantitative Health Sciences, tracked 53,402 Cleveland Clinic employees across Ohio during the 2024–2025 respiratory viral season, which began on October 1, 2024.
By the end of the 25-week observation period (ending March 26, 2025), 82.1% of the cohort (43,857 individuals) had been vaccinated, primarily with the trivalent inactivated vaccine.
A total of 1,079 employees (2.02%) tested positive for influenza, with 98.8% being influenza A cases.
Using a time-dependent analysis (treating vaccination as a variable that changes over time), the researchers calculated a vaccine effectiveness of -26.9% (95% CI: -51.0% to -6.6%). This means vaccinated individuals had a 27% higher hazard ratio (HR 1.27) for contracting influenza compared to unvaccinated ones, after adjusting for factors like age, sex, job type (e.g., clinical nursing), and work location.
The study addressed potential biases by examining testing rates. Vaccinated employees were more likely to get tested, but the proportion of positive tests was similar between groups, suggesting the higher infection rate wasn’t due to testing differences but actual increased susceptibility.
A Simon-Makuch plot showed that early in the season, infection rates were similar, but they rose more rapidly among the vaccinated over time.
Graph comparing cumulative incidence of influenza in vaccinated versus unvaccinated individuals during the 2024-2025 respiratory viral season, highlighting vaccination effectiveness.
The study population was relatively young (mean age 42) and healthy, with 75% female and about 20% in clinical nursing roles.
The authors concluded: “Among 53402 working-aged Cleveland Clinic employees, we were unable to find a protective influence of influenza vaccination during the 2024-2025 respiratory viral season and found a significantly higher risk of influenza with vaccination when influenza activity was high.“
For the full study, check out the medRxiv preprint here: Effectiveness of the Influenza Vaccine During the 2024-2025 Respiratory Viral Season.
Jim Hᴏft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/cleveland-clinic-flu-shots-study-shows-vaccine-increased/
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etc.. All these things are end-time signs, the economy, the loss of jobs, the government control. You are in a time that the world has never seen before and that time does not get better, etc..
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Chilling omen of house price crash as America's No 2 homebuilder forced to slash prices by 10%
READ MORE: Another bourbon distiller files for bankruptcy as sector collapses
By MARTHA WILLIAMS, US REAL ESTATE & CONSUMER REPORTER
Published: 00:22 EST, 31 December 2025 | Updated: 05:53 EST, 31 December 2025
America’s housing market is flashing a fresh warning sign that prices are falling — and it’s coming from one of its biggest players.
Lennar, the second-largest US homebuilder, was forced to slash the cost of its houses by 10 percent in the final three months of 2025 as buyers disappeared.
It is a chilling signal of what may be coming next — not just for other new-builds, but for the roughly 130 million existing houses, apartments and condos across America.
Big builders like Lennar act as a canary in the coal mine for the wider housing market because they have no escape hatch.
Unlike most ordinary homeowners, who can pull a listing and wait if they don’t get their price, builders are stuck with new-builds that generate costs every day they sit unsold.
When buyers disappear, cutting prices becomes the only option. The typical Lennar home cost $386,000 in late-2025, compared to $430,000 during the same period in 2024.
The average existing home in the US is worth $360,000. If it's value dropped by the same percentage, the typical American homeowner would see their biggest asset drop by in value by $36,000.
Lennar’s price cuts, revealed in its latest quarterly earnings, show how quickly pressure is building across the housing market.
Despite selling more homes, the company’s revenue from home sales fell seven percent year-on-year to $8.9 billion in the final quarter, as lower prices more than offset higher volumes.
Lennar’s average selling price is now down 21 percent from its pandemic-era peak.
Stuart Miller, Lennar’s chairman and co-CEO, said it had also been forced to offer incentives, which typically mean things like free carpets or money towards deposits, on top of price cuts.
He said that because the market is still unpredictable, the company cannot be sure what will happen in 2026 but hopes to sell around 85,000 homes.
The stress is not confined to one builder.
For as far back as records go, new homes have almost always cost more to buy than existing properties.
This isn't surprising — new-builds have all the latest features and appliances, and they come without the wear and tear of previously-owned properties.
However, over the summer that trend turned completely upside down.
In June, the median sales price of a new home was $407,200 — around $28,000 cheaper than that of existing homes, and a 6.5 percent discount, according to Realtor.com.
Experts have chalked up the reversal to classic supply and demand.
Construction companies became giddy during the pandemic — when demand for housing was through the roof, especially in sunny Southern boomtowns — and built slews of homes to satisfy buyers' needs.
However, as the Covid boom slowed, it became clear that builders had added far more homes than there were people to buy them.
Building companies were forced to cut costs, which left brand new homes to be sold at far cheaper prices than older homes, foreshadowing a potential market crash.
De-listings also surged this year, indicating that if homeowners cannot sell their house for the price they desire, they are willing to take the property off the market and wait for a better time to sell.
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Seattle schools quizzing kids as young as 11 on sexual orientation, drug use — and sharing data with 3rd parties
By David Spector
Published Dec. 27, 2025, 7:52 a.m. ET
More than 20 Seattle public middle and high schools surveyed kids about gender identity and sexual orientation without telling their parents — and allegedly shared the data with third parties.
The state’s Check Yourself Survey, which is administered in every Seattle middle school and high school, prompts students as young as 11 to answer questions and fill in the blanks about their personal lives, the National Review reported.
“I am most likely to have a crush on,” one question asks before providing a list of answers which includes “all genders” and “males and females.”
Another prompt reads “About Me: I identify as,” with the options listed including “questioning my gender identity” and “non-binary.”
Students, some as young as sixth-graders, were also asked what their “top goals” are for the coming year, with “be in a romantic relationship” listed as an option, the outlet reported.
The kids didn’t all appreciate the questions.
“No I’m also twelve,” one answered, according to the outlet, while another responded, “why do you want to know my sexual orientation,” and another replied: “I never want to do this again.”
The survey, which has been taken by 67,000 students since its inception nearly a decade ago, also asks students about smoking, drinking, drug use, suicidal ideation and problems at home including “fighting or physically hurting others.”
The data was allegedly shared with numerous third parties, including Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute and King County, which encompasses Seattle, according to National Review.
The US Department of Education’s Student Private Policy office is investigating the Seattle-area schools.
Parents said they were never informed of the sexual nature of some of the survey questions, or that the information would be shared outside the schools, the National Review reported.
Nearly two dozen parents signed a letter insisting schools get written permission before administering the survey.
“If parents want to sign their kids up for a program that releases their health information and their personally identifiable information, that is their decision, but every parent deserves to make this decision under informed written consent,” Seattle mom Stephanie Hager told the National Review.
“These records are super valuable because this is very difficult information to get from students or from adolescents, kids, minors,” Hager claimed.
The King County Ombudsman’s Office found “no evidence indicates wrongful disclosure of private student information by King County,” according to a 2024 report — which also acknowledged that one school district released “sensitive student identifying information . . . several years ago.”
Seattle Public Schools reportedly used a $1.5 million federal grant for the survey in 2025 by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
A spokesperson for SAMHSA told The Post that the funds can not be used for services that violate federal law and that the agency is reviewing the matter internally. The county denied responsibility for the disclosure.
The Department of Education, the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction and Seattle Public Schools did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/us-news/seattle-schools-quizzing-kids-on-sexual-orientation
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Rev 6:4
4 And another horse appeared, a red
one. Its rider was given a mighty sword and the authority to
remove peace from the earth. And there was war and
slaughter everywhere. (NLT)
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Will 2026 Be A Year Of War With Iran, Russia And China?
December 28, 2025
I think that nearly the entire population of the world would like to see peace in 2026, but global events just continue to drag us toward war. I honestly do not understand why more people are not upset about this. The drumbeats of war seem to get louder with each passing day, and we are getting dangerously close to a point of no return. Nobody wanted World War I to happen, but once it started nobody could stop it and more than 20 million people died. Nobody wanted World War II to happen, but once it started nobody could stop it and more than 50 million people died. Now we have reached a stage where a war between major powers should be unthinkable because of the immense power of the weapons that we now possess. If we are not very careful, billions of people could die before World War III is finally over.
I am extremely concerned that war with Iran could erupt again very soon.
On Saturday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian ominously declared that his nation is “at total war with the United States, Israel and Europe”…
Iran’s president declared they were in a “total war” with the US, Israel and Europe, just as Tehran looks to rebuild its nuclear capabilities and strengthen ties with Hamas.
Masoud Pezeshkian made the bold statement in an interview published in state media Saturday, Barron’s reported.
“In my opinion, we are at total war with the United States, Israel and Europe. They want to bring our country to its knees,” Pezeshkian said.
I don’t like the sound of that at all.
How does a “total war” end?
Pezeshkian seems to believe that the U.S., Israel and Europe are “besieging” Iran from every direction…
“This war is worse than Iraq’s war against us; if one understands it well, this war is far more complex and difficult than that war,” Pezeshkian said. Iran fought a prolonged war with its neighbor throughout the 1980s.
“In the war with Iraq, the situation was clear: they fired missiles,” the Iranian president said. But the U.S., Israel and European countries politically, economically, culturally “besieging” Iran, as well as impacting the nation’s security, he added.
“On one side, they block our sales, our exchanges, our trade, and on the other side, expectations in society have risen,” Pezeshkian said.
A predator that has been backed into a corner is extremely dangerous.
The Iranians have rebuilt their strategic missile arsenal, and it is now even stronger than it was during the 12 Day War.
And Pezeshkian is warning that if Iran is attacked again, those that do so will “face a more decisive response”…
Pezeshkian brushed off the impact of Trump’s strikes in June in his latest remarks, and said Iran’s military has rebuilt to a stronger position than it was in before the conflict.
‘Our beloved military forces are doing their jobs with strength and now, in terms of equipment and manpower, despite all the problems we have, they are stronger than when they attacked,’ he said.
‘So if they want to attack, they will naturally face a more decisive response.’
Needless to say, Pezeshkian is not being paranoid in this particular case, because it is being widely reported that the Israelis are considering an attack on Iran’s ballistic missile program.
In fact, it appears that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be discussing this with President Trump when he travels to Florida on Monday…
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to travel to Mar-a-Lago Monday where he is expected to pitch President Trump on a plan to launch new strikes against Tehran.
Israeli sources claim that the Islamic Republic is repairing its air defense systems and rebuilding its ballistic missile program, both of which were destroyed by airstrikes during the war, according to an NBC report.
The Florida powwow also is believed to be crucial to the Gaza deal, with top White House aides believing Netanyahu is sabotaging the peace framework, Axios reported.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is alleging that our European allies are “getting ready to fight it out with Russia on the battlefield”…
“After a new administration came to power in the United States, Europe and the European Union emerged as the main obstacles to peace,” Russia’s veteran Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Russia’s Tass state news agency in an interview published on Sunday. “They are making no secret of the fact that they are getting ready to fight it out with Russia on the battlefield.”
Lavrov is not wrong about this.
In fact, earlier this month I listed a whole bunch of signs that the Europeans are feverishly preparing for war.
But the mainstream media keeps telling us that the Ukrainians and the Europeans want peace.
Of course I don’t believe that is true at all.
The Ukrainians and the Europeans fully understand that the “peace plan” that they are working on does not have a prayer of actually being accepted by the Russians…
On Christmas Eve, Zelensky said the US and Ukraine had reached a consensus on a number of critical issues, and indicated he was open to creating a demilitarised zone on his country’s eastern border with Russia.
But he has continued to resist Russian demands that Ukraine gives up two of its eastern regions, Luhansk and Donetsk.
Russia is also likely to object to a role for Nato forces in monitoring a ceasefire, which European leaders including Sir Keir and French President Emmanuel Macron have said must form part of any deal.
Once the Russians inevitably reject this “deal”, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham says that it will be time to start seizing tankers that are carrying Russian oil…
If Putin says “no” this time, I hope the president will sign our bill and impose tariffs on China and other countries purchasing cheap oil from Russia, a state sponsor of terrorism. Therefore, it is equally important to seize and arrest ships carrying sanctioned Russian oil, following the Venezuelan scenario.
And the Europeans may use it as an excuse to start sending troops into Ukraine, even though they know that the Russians have warned over and over again that they will shoot at any European troops that enter the country…
It comes as Moscow warned that any European troop contingents deployed to Ukraine would become legitimate targets for Russia’s armed forces in comments published by Russia’s state news agency TASS on Sunday.
Mr Putin warned that Moscow would accomplish all its goals by force if Ukraine didn’t want to resolve the conflict peacefully.
The Russians have made it very clear what it will take to make a deal.
Since they are winning the war, they feel like they have the right to set the terms.
Of course the Ukrainians and the Europeans will never give the Russians what they want.
And so Russian forces will just continue to march forward.
In recent weeks, the pace at which the Russians have been taking territory has increased…
In the Zaporozhie southern region, Gulyaipole and Stepnogorsk were conquered.
Gulyaipole, the second biggest Zaporozhie city, is an important stronghold and a key logistics hub and it fell after a short siege.
In the Donetsk region, Mirnograd (Dimitrov), Rodinskoye, Artemovka and Volnoye were also conquered.
Mirnograd/Dimitrov is an important part of the Pokrovsk/Krasnoarmeysk agglomeration, one of the last major fortified areas under Ukraine’s control in the Donbass.
Within the past few days, there has apparently been a significant breakthrough in the Zaporizhia region.
According to one report, it is “eight kilometers deep in places and 20 kilometers wide”…
Russian troops from the Dnipro Group of Forces have broken through the Kyiv regime’s front west of Orekhovo in the Zaporizhia region. According to military analysts, the breach is up to eight kilometers deep in places and 20 kilometers wide.
According to reports from the field, Russian units are currently advancing toward the settlements of Magdalinovka, Pavlovka, and Lukyanovskoye. Concurrently, the clearing of Stepnogorsk, where a significant Ukrainian Armed Forces force was recently encircled, continues.
The more Russian units advance, the more pressure European leaders will feel to intervene militarily.
And if NATO forces move into Ukraine, we will be just one step away from nuclear war.
Sadly, we are also getting closer to war with China.
The largest arms sale to Taiwan in history was recently approved, and in response the Chinese slapped sanctions on 20 U.S. defense companies…
China has imposed sanctions against 20 US defence-related companies and 10 executives, a week after Washington announced large-scale arms sales to Taiwan.
According to the Chinese foreign ministry, the sanctions entail freezing the companies’ assets in China and banning individuals and organisations from dealing with them.
“We stress once again that the Taiwan question is at the very core of China’s core interests and the first red line that must not be crossed in China－US relations,” the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.
“Any company or individual who engages in arms sales to Taiwan will pay the price for the wrongdoing.”Why would we approve such a large arms package for Taiwan when things were already so tense with China?
We just can
’t seem to stop provoking the Chinese.Needless to say, the Chinese are also very upset that we have been seizing Venezuelan oil tankers
…China on Monday accused the U.S. of violating international law in seizing oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, appearing to take the side of Caracas as Washington looks to take a third oil tanker this month.
“The U.S. practice of arbitrarily seizing other countries’ vessels grossly violates international law,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told reporters, according to Bloomberg, adding that Beijing opposes anything that “infringes upon other countries’ sovereignty and security, and all acts of unilateralism or bullying.”Lin added that Venezuela
“has the right to independently develop mutually beneficial cooperation with other countries,” and Beijing supports Caracas in “defending its own legitimate rights and interests.”Venezuela has the most proven oil reserves on the entire planet, and the Chinese purchase more oil from Venezuela than everyone else combined.
Ultimately, a military confrontation with Venezuela could eventually evolve into a military confrontation with China.
The time to stop a war is before it starts.
If we do not choose peace now, the consequences could be cataclysmic.
When will everybody finally start waking up?
We are literally at one of the most critical turning points in history, but most people in the western world have become so deeply addicted to entertainment that they have absolutely no idea what is really going on out there.
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etc America your money will be worth nothing in the near future, this will bring panic, famine and martial law, yes, in the streets of America. If you had read my word you know that these are the beginning of sorrows etc
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UPDATED 12:48 PM EST -- REPORT: "A SYSTEMICALLY-IMPORTANT BANK COLLAPSED AT 2:47 AM SUNDAY"
Hal Turner World December 28, 2025 Hits: 71338
As this story is written, it is 11:01 AM eastern U.S. time on Sunday, December 28. Reports have been coming in CLAIMING "a systemically important bank, a major player in Silver Futures, failed to pay its Margin Call by 2:00 AM and was liquidated by the futures Exchange at 2:47 AM eastern US time."
The reports are CONCEALING the name of the bank, but it is confirmed that overnight, the federal reserve was forced to pump another $34 Billion into the Banking System through its Emergency Overnight Repo facility. This $34 Billion is on top of the $17 Billion which had to be pumped-in two days ago, on Friday morning.
The Bank involved is described as "one of the largest players in the precious metals derivatives market" blew past every risk limit, breached every covenant. and exhausted every line of credit."
The Bank is further described as having been "massively short silver; we are talking massive positions numbering in the hundreds-of-millions ounces."
According to the information coming out this morning, when Silver broke through $70 per ounce on Friday, this bank received a "Margin Call" from the Commodities Exchange(s) which "exceeded their liquid capital." I am further told that "the clearinghouse gave them until Sunday morning to post $2.3 BILLION in additional cash collateral."
The report goes on to say that "over the past 36 hours, the Bank Executives frantically tried to raise cash. They reportedly called their counter-parties, they tried to sell assets, they begged for Bridge loans. Nobody helped them."
According to the reports, "Every major bank on Wall Street looked at the Bank's Derivatives Book and saw the bank was "already dead;" they just hadn't stop moving yet."
If these reports prove to be factual, and I have NO CONFIRMATION yet, the fall of this "systemically important" bank will have immediate repercussions throughout the entire banking system.
You see, a "systemically important" bank is a counter-party to many other banks in certain financial contracts, such as derivatives. If the counter-party fails, all those derivative contracts are now failed.
More info if and when I get it. Check back later.
UPDATE 12:48 PM EST --
According to additional information, at 2:47 AM the Bank notified the Exchange that they could NOT meet the $2.3 Billion margin call. At 3:03 AM, the Exchange began forced liquidation of the Contracts. By 4:15 AM, the Banks positions on the Exchange were fully closed. SIXTEEN MINUTES LATER FEDERAL REGULATORS SEIZED THE BANK TO PREVENT A DISORDERLY UNWIND.
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BRICS Orders 1.7 Million Oil Barrels in a Big Blow to the US
Vinod Dsouza
December 21, 2025
In a big blow to the US and the Trump administration, India ordered 1.7 million barrels of oil from its BRICS counterpart, Russia, in November, despite sanctions, and the amount is up 3.4% from October. In addition, 1.2 million barrels of oil were shipped from Russia to India in December. The procurement comes despite India being under pressure from the US to stop buying Russian oil.
India’s State-run refiners, such as Indian Oil Corp and Bharat Petroleum, are buying Russian crude oil. Hindustan Petroleum is also in talks with Russia and could resume oil purchases from January 2026. BRICS members India and Russia are not bowing down to US sanctions and continuing the purchases.
BRICS is receiving oil at discounted prices from Russia and saving millions in foreign exchange rates. The settlements are happening in local currencies such as the rupee and the ruble. The Chinese yuan is also being used for oil deals with China. The US dollar is being phased out, thanks to the sanctions from the White House.
While BRICS is helping Russia in sustaining its economy, the US thinks otherwise. American authorities gave a statement that sanctions are working against the Russian economy. “Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, Russia has been forced to accept deep discounts and fewer buyers for its oil. These pressures are limiting the Kremlin’s revenues and increasing the financial strain of sustaining its war,” a US official said.
India had previously saved close to $7 billion in foreign exchange rates and benefited from the US sanctions on Russia. The sanctions have mostly turned out to be a blessing in disguise for BRICS members. It also helped them advance the de-dollarization agenda while saving big on exchange rates. Despite the Trump administration’s trying to clamp down on oil sales, it has yet to be successful.
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No Peace Plan Will Stop The Terrorists' Jihad Against Israel
By Khaled Abu Toameh/Gatestone Institute December 30, 2025
More than two months after the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip went into effect, the Iran-backed Hamas terror group seems more determined than ever to stay in power and continue its armed struggle to destroy Israel.
On December 14, Hamas marked the 38th anniversary of its founding by praising its October 7, 2023 invasion of Israel's southern communities as a "gigantic milestone and landmark in the struggle for freedom and independence and the defeat and elimination of the occupation [Israel]." On that day, more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, and thousands wounded. Another 251 Israelis and foreign nationals were kidnapped to the Gaza Strip, where Hamas is still holding the remains of one hostage.
Hamas has no regrets over the massacre it committed on October 7 and the ensuing war, which claimed the lives of thousands of Palestinians and destroyed large parts of the Gaza Strip. Instead of apologizing to the Palestinians for bringing death and destruction on them, the terror group issued a statement offering "greetings to the Palestinians for their Hamas seized the opportunity to repeat its "categorical rejection of any form of trusteeship or mandate over the Gaza Strip."
This is a reference to US President Donald J. Trump's plan for peace in the Gaza Strip. The plan calls for the establishment of an international body, the "Board of Peace," to help with the administration, reconstruction, and economic recovery of the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the war. The plan, in addition, calls for the deployment of an "International Stabilization Force" (ISF) and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.
Since the announcement of Trump's plan, Hamas has repeatedly expressed its opposition to the presence of a non-Palestinian governing body in the Gaza Strip. Moreover, the terror group has dismissed the idea of laying down its weapons. It has also made it clear that the role of any international force should be limited just to monitoring the implementation of the ceasefire with Israel. According to Hamas, the proposed International Stabilization Force should be stationed at the borders of the Gaza Strip, and not in areas controlled by the terror group.
Hamas said in its latest statement:
"The Palestinian people alone decide who governs them, and they have the legitimate right to resist, liberate their land, and establish their independent state with Jerusalem as its capital... Hamas affirms its commitment to its principles since its inception and its loyalty to the blood of the martyrs and the sacrifices of the prisoners, until liberation and the return [of Palestinian refugees and their descendants to their former homes inside Israel].... Jerusalem and the al-Aqsa Mosque will remain the focus of the conflict. The Palestinian people have the right to all resistance [meaning: terrorism against Israel]."
When Hamas says that it remains committed to its principles, it is referring to its 1988 charter, which quotes Imam Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood organization, as saying: "Israel will exist and continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." Hamas describes itself as "one of the wings of Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine" and states that "initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement [Hamas]."
Hamas, in other words, has not given up its dream of eliminating Israel.
Khalil al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official living comfortably in Qatar, said in a speech marking the anniversary of the founding of his group that "the Palestinian people's resistance is still alive, and [the Hamas] leadership is steadfast and firm." Al-Hayya argued that the two-year war in the Gaza Strip has "proven that [Israel] can be defeated and that the liberation of Palestine is possible if it is based on careful planning and unified efforts." He praised the October 7 massacre as a "model of what could happen if the [Muslim] nation's efforts were combined" against Israel.
The Hamas leader boasted that the war "complicated and set back" efforts by the US to normalize relations between Israel and some Arab and Islamic countries, including Saudi Arabia.
Al-Hayya emphasized Hamas's rejection of "all forms of guardianship or mandate over the Palestinian people" and said that the mission of Trump's "Board of Peace" should be limited to overseeing the implementation of the ceasefire, funding, and supervising the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.
Regarding the International Stabilization Force, al-Hayya stressed that its role should be limited to maintaining the ceasefire without any interference in the internal affairs of the Gaza Strip. The weapons of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, he added, are "a legitimate right guaranteed by international laws, and this right is linked to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state."
Another senior Hamas official, Hossam Badran, said that his group "will continue its struggle and Jihad in confronting the Zionist project in Palestine," adding:
"Since its founding, Hamas has waged direct military battles against the [Israeli] enemy. We need to combine efforts and unite all energies for the greater role of liberating Palestine."
"Liberating Palestine" is a euphemism for destroying Israel and replacing it with an Islamist state.
It is worth noting that several Palestinian terror groups, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad, "congratulated" Hamas on the 38th anniversary of its founding and vowed to support the Jihad against Israel. Needless to say, the terror groups also voiced support for the October 7 atrocities.
These statements by Hamas and the other Palestinian terror groups show that they have no intention of honoring Trump's plan. They view the Trump plan as nothing more than a temporary ceasefire that allows them to regroup, rearm, and pursue their Jihad to annihilate Israel.
It is simply nonsensical to believe that any peace plan would end the terrorists' Jihad against Israel. Unfortunately, there is no alternative to a total defeat and eradication of Hamas and its allies.
Originally published at The Gatestone Institute
https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=9331
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'Jesus Is Real, God Is Real, Heaven Is Real': Woman Dies and Visits Heaven After Heart Attack
Isaac Gwin
12-29-2025
At first, Janelle Wofford thought she was having indigestion. When her pain got worse, she called 911. Then, moments after the EMTs arrived, Janelle says everything went white, and she experienced the afterlife.
"I didn't have pain at all. What is everyone back on earth doing? I wasn't worried about that. I wasn't worried about anything and I was just overwhelmed with the peace and the joy and the glory of it all," Janelle recalls.
It all started with a heart attack that killed her. That's when Janelle's spirit was transported to Heaven.
"Pretty quickly after finishing eating I had a feeling that was heavy in my chest, but just felt like indigestion and didn't really think a whole lot of it," Janelle tells CBN. "Then I noticed pain in my left shoulder. It started to kind of go up near my jaw."
"My breathing was getting a little harder, shallow, and all of a sudden I got real clammy and sweaty," Janelle said. "That's when I really started to think, well, maybe this really is something going on with my heart. I called for my daughter to come out to talk to me, and I let her know I wasn't feeling right, that I felt like I might need to go to the hospital."
"She's like, 'call 911,'" Janelle says, describing her daughter's frantic response. "So, I did. They came in and I remember the EMT started asking me questions, who I was, how I was feeling, and I started to describe to him the pain and what all the symptoms were that I was feeling. All of a sudden, I just said, 'My head feels funny.' I said, 'And my vision.' And at that point all I saw, it was like this veil – this white, cloudy veil just kind of came down. And that was it."
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"The next thing I know is I was just in a bright, bright place and was overwhelmed with joy and peace and happiness," Janelle said as she found herself in Heaven. "I was looking around at everything, everyone, just trying to see who all was there. It was a place of comfort. It was like a familiar place. I knew people that I loved were there, and I was looking to see what all was there and who all was there. It was just beautiful. No pain, no fear, just peace, comfort, joy. It was amazing. Why would you want to leave? I didn't."
"As I'm doing all that, I hear my name called out," Janelle says, putting her hand to her ear. "I was like, 'No thank you, I'm happy here. I'm staying here. I'm enjoying this. I'm not leaving this.' Then I heard my name again and I'm like, 'Oh, do I have to answer?' I said, 'Maybe if I answer, they'll let me come back.' So, I answered, and the moment I answered to my name – the minute I answered my name, it was gone. I was back right there with the EMTs, no longer in Heaven."
"Then they just started letting me know what was going on," Janelle says about the EMTs attending to her. "They told me I had actually had a heart attack, that they had to perform CPR and shock my heart to get me back. He said that it was about two to two and a half minutes that I had been dead, that I had no heartbeat."
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She was taken to a hospital where her diagnosis was rendered.
"I ended up having a tear in one of my arteries, a very small tear," Janelle says. "They gave me some heart medications and said that I should be alright and that it should heal up on its own. I was only in the hospital for two days and I was able to go home."
"I really believe the Lord let me go through this for my daughter," Janelle says of her Heavenly experience. "So, that she can have that reassurance to know, truly know, that Jesus is real, God is real, Heaven is real and it's all worth it. To know that whatever you go through on this earth, in this earthly life, as bad and as hard as it is, it's worth it to know Jesus as your savior and to trust God with all you're going through."
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"There is nothing on this earth that can even give you a comprehension of how amazing and glorious the peace and the joy is up there. The knowledge of knowing that Heaven is there waiting on me, on everyone that trusts and believe in Him – it's just amazing."
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About The Author
Isaac Gwin joined Operation Blessing in 2013 as a National Media Liaison covering domestic hunger and disaster relief efforts. He then moved to Israel in 2015, where he spent the next six years as a CBN Features Producer developing stories highlighting the plights of Holocaust survivors, single mothers, and refugees throughout the Middle East. Now back in the U.S., Isaac continues to produce inspiring testimonies for The 700 Club.
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Tyson plant closure and shifts being cut will eliminate 7 to 9 percent of total beef processing capacity nationwide
Dec 29, 2025
Late in 2025, Tyson Foods announced a major restructuring of its beef processing operations that will significantly affect local communities, cattle markets, and the broader meatpacking industry.
Central to the announcement is the permanent closure of Tyson’s large beef processing facility in Lexington, Nebraska, scheduled for January 20, 2026, along with a reduction to a single shift at another Tyson plant in Amarillo, Texas. Together, these moves are expected to remove roughly 7–9 percent of U.S. beef processing capacity, a notable contraction in an industry already grappling with supply challenges.
According to Wisconsin Public Radio, Tyson described the decision as an effort to “right size” its beef business amid persistent financial pressures and limited cattle supplies.
Economists have been closely monitoring how the closure could impact both cattle producers and consumers. Traditionally, the shutdown of a processing plant leads to lower cattle prices for ranchers and higher beef prices at grocery stores, as processing capacity tightens.
However, livestock economist David Anderson of Texas A&M University suggested this situation may be different. “Typically, when a plant closes, what we expect is lower cattle prices and higher beef prices, because we’ve lost this capacity,” Anderson said. “But at the same time, we’ve got so much excess capacity already that that may not happen. It’s not like the closing has created a constraint on packing.”
That assessment reflects broader conditions across the U.S. beef industry. In 2025, the nation’s cattle herd fell to its smallest size in more than seventy years, driven by prolonged drought, high feed costs, and shrinking profit margins for ranchers.
As a result, many beef processing plants have been operating below full capacity. Nationally, plants were running at just over 81 percent capacity, while the Lexington facility itself was operating at approximately 75 percent, leaving room for other plants to absorb some of the displaced production.
Despite these industry-wide factors, the local consequences of the closure are expected to be severe. The Lexington plant employs more than 3,200 workers, making it the town’s largest employer in a community of just over 10,000 residents.
In comparison, the Amarillo facility — where Tyson is cutting shifts affecting around 1,700 workers — is located in a much larger city with a more diversified economy. Anderson emphasized the disparity, noting, “It’s so difficult to replace an employer of that magnitude. So the rippling effect of this is pretty terrible.”
The closure is also expected to impact cattle producers and feedlot operators in the surrounding region. Without a nearby processing facility, producers may be forced to ship cattle farther distances, increasing transportation costs and shrinking already-thin margins. One local feedlot operator estimated that hauling cattle to more distant plants could add about $20 per head, a significant burden at scale.
Beyond economics, community leaders worry about deeper social consequences. Over the past three decades, Tyson’s presence in Lexington helped shape the town’s demographic and cultural landscape, drawing workers from across the country and abroad.
Many fear that the loss of the plant will lead to population decline as families relocate in search of work. One resident warned that the closure could trigger an “exodus of the immigrant population, just because there won’t be jobs right here in town.”
About the Author
End Time Headlines is a ministry founded, owned, and operated by Ricky Scaparo, established in 2010 to equip believers and inform discerning individuals about the “Signs and Seasons” of the times in which we live. Ricky authors original articles and curates news from mainstream sources, carefully selecting topics, verifying information, and utilizing artificial intelligence tools to ensure content is both timely and accurate. Every piece is personally reviewed and edited by Ricky to align with the ministry’s mission of providing a prophetic perspective on current events.
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Okla. pastor recovering from stab wounds after woman wielding dagger attacks church service
By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Monday, December 29, 2025
An Oklahoma pastor is recovering from stab wounds after an altercation at his church last week.
In a statement last Monday, Police Chief Jeremy Cantrell of the Pryor Creek Police Department announced that law enforcement responded to a “reported disturbance" at the Church of Christ in Pryor earlier that day.
“Upon arrival, officers located an active physical altercation inside the church,” Cantrell said.
“An adult staff member sustained injuries, including lacerations, and was provided immediate medical care before being transported to a Tulsa-area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries,” he added. “An adult female was taken into custody following officer intervention and was transported to the Mayes County Jail on a federal hold after medical evaluation. The scene was quickly secured, and there is no ongoing threat to the public. Due to the suspect’s tribal status, the suspect has been referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.”
Cantrell provided additional details about the incident in a subsequent Facebook post last Tuesday. “It is clear the attack was unprovoked, deliberate, and intentional,” he wrote. “The suspect attacked the pastor with a dagger.”
He added that “two senior parishioners immediately came to the aid of the pastor, placing themselves directly in harm’s way without hesitation.”
“Their actions very likely prevented more serious injury,” he said. “The pastor sustained stab wounds to his hand and received stitches to his chin. He is expected to undergo surgery on his hand. Even after being stabbed, the pastor remained calm and composed under circumstances most people would not.”
Cantrell expressed gratitude that “the pastor is expected to make a full recovery” and praised the parishioners who intervened as “true examples of bravery, selflessness, and faith” and lauded their ability to disarm the suspect.
Although Cantrell did not identify the suspect or the victim in the attack, the website for the Pryor Church of Christ names DJ Castoe as the pastor.
A Facebook post by John Lovitt, a retired minister who served at multiple churches, including Pryor Church of Christ, shared a local news report naming the suspect as Whitney Adney.
“This disturbed individual tried to kill DJ Castoe, the preacher at the Pryor church of Christ, where I once preached, and DJ was in our youth group back then,” Lovitt said. “He has to have surgery Wednesday in the hospital. I pray he has a full recovery and that this woman is kept from being a danger to anyone else.”
The local news report shared by Lovitt on Facebook included information from the probable cause affidavit filed in federal court stating that local law enforcement discovered the pastor “bleeding and holding down Adney” after encountering one of the senior parishioners “holding a black dagger” and “asking for help” after disarming the suspect. The social media post also stated that the suspect was “yelling something about a cult.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com