Retired child and adolescent psychiatrist and American expatriate in New Zealand. In 2002, I made the difficult decision to close my 25-year Seattle practice after 15 years of covert FBI harassment. I describe the unrelenting phone harassment, illegal break-ins and six attempts on my life in my 2010 book The Most Revolutionary Act: Memoir of an American Refugee.
Since I mostly publish in English and in French, most of you, my readers, find yourselves living in North America or in Europe. And since I happen to be Russian, my attitude is pro-Russian — as you would expect, as you would cats to be pro-cat and dogs to be pro-dog. This is potentially a problem for you, my dear readers, since in the countries in which you find yourselves being pro-Russian is a crime. Hence, my call for caution.
I take it as axiomatic that Europe and the US are being run by genocidal maniacs who are hell-bent on killing as many Russians as possible, be they Russian Russians or Ukrainian Russians. The difference between the two is not so much cultural, religious or linguistic as it is ethical and moral. My distinctly Russian attitude is that Ukrainians are Russians who have lost their way. Russia had also lost its way, albeit briefly, and in this we have done a great disservice to the Ukrainians, causing them to once again succumb to the siren call of the west.
In any case, the Genocidal Maniacs of the West, who have been hell-bent on killing as many Russians as possible for 830 years (ever since Pope Celestine III’s call for the Northern Crusades in 1195) have taken advantage of this situation and, overcome by their centuries-old bloodlust, have funneled huge quantities of money and weapons to the losing side (the Ukrainians, that is), resulting in at least a million deaths, most of them on the Ukrainian side.
In perpetuating the fiction that this is some sort of “just war,” the Genocidal Maniacs of the West no longer feel restrained by any legal requirements or strictures. To them, anybody who is active socially or on the internet (which are the same thing at this point) and who is pro-Russian is automatically a criminal. So, here’s the choice: either you stay in North America or in Europe, or you can be pro-Russian. (Conversely, if you are in Russia and are anti-Russian, you can easily find yourself labeled as a foreign agent and face certain unpleasant consequences.) There is a war going on, you know. “The first casualty when war comes is truth,” said Senator Hiram W Johnson.
There are some people who apparently believe themselves to be magic elves to whom no evil can ever befall and who violate this cardinal rule: those who say pro-Russian things while remaining in Europe or the US. Examples include the Swiss military expert Jacques Baud and the former Iraqi arms inspector Scott Ritter, who have suddenly found their bank accounts frozen. And let’s not forget the Chilean/American journalist Gonzalo Lira who was tortured to death in a Ukrainian jail. I am sure that I am failing to mention quite a few other such people, but that is the range of negative experiences one should expect: the lightest sanction one would face is financial, the heaviest getting tortured to death.
Their predicament results from a combination of two root causes:
1. being on the wrong side physically and
2. being on the wrong side publicly
They could have avoided their predicament either by shifting sides or by keeping quiet. Taking their location as a given, the root cause reduces to UNSAFE PUBLICITY.
Some of them attempt to “fix” their problem through even greater unsafe publicity — with the help of YouTube journalists such as Tucker Carlson or judge Napolitano. By the way, some of these YouTube journalists may also turn out to be magic elves — but not all: there is also Nima. He may look like a magic elf but he isn’t one, since he broadcasts from the safety of distinctly pro-Russian Brazil.
Some also attempt to “fix” their problem by applying legal or political pressure — but the problem with this approach is that anybody who comes to the defense of someone who is pro-Russian is also automatically pro-Russian and therefore, axiomatically, a criminal. Therefore, these approaches only enlarge the problem.
The only solution to someone who has gotten into trouble by making pro-Russian statements or expressing pro-Russian sentiments in the public space in Europe or the US is EXPATRIATION. But this is not possible without considerable preparation and planning, so the only viable alternative for most people is keeping their mouths shut.
I know that many people feel that speaking the truth is somehow an impenetrable defense: how can someone accuse you of making statements that are provably true? For them, it is important to understand that concepts such as “truth” no longer apply in Europe or the US. Statements made or opinions expressed in public must fit one of the acceptable, mainstream narratives.
If you are in (no longer great) Britain, same goes for statements or opinions made or expressed in private — the walls have ears and so do the gadgets through which people now communicate. You might still get away with thinking contrary thoughts, but only because the prosecution of thought crimes is still technically challenging.
Yesterday, a curious thing happened in a House Committee. Bill and Hillary Clinton were actually held accountable for flouting the law — at least as a preliminary matter. In the House Oversight Committee, Democrats joined Republicans in approving contempt resolutions against the two political figures after they refused to appear to answer questions about their connections to Jeffrey Epstein.
The House panel voted 34-8 to advance the resolution on Bill Clinton to a floor vote. It voted 28-15 to advance a resolution on Hillary Clinton.
As previously discussed, the Clintons adopted a position that was devoid of any cognizable legal defense. It was simple hubris, telling Congress that they did not want to appear to be saying that congressional subpoenas are discretionary for them.
From the Whitewater case to the Lewinsky matter to the email scandal, the Clintons have always escaped accountability for their actions. Courts can find perjury and prosecutors can find classified material without a criminal charge. Evidence can suddenly surface after investigations, or thousands of emails can be destroyed without any repercussions.
After that history, it is little surprise that the Clintons would believe that they, unlike other Americans, can choose whether to comply with a subpoena. After standing in flagrant contempt, the Clintons only reaffirmed the sense of entitlement by offering to allow an interview in New York without a transcript. There would be no “what the meaning of ‘is’ is” moments.
It is a demonstration of our partisan times that the mere fact that Democrats joined in the motion came as a surprise to many. Nine Democrats voted with their GOP colleagues against the Clintons
What is disgraceful are those Democrats who dispensed with any institutional or ethical obligations in opposing the resolution. Here were the eight Democrats who voted to allow the Clintons to disregard lawfully issued subpoenas from the Committee:
Wesley Bell (D., Mo.)
Shontel Brown (D., Oh)
Robert Garcia (D., Cal.)
Ro Khanna (D., Cal.)
Kweisi Mfume (D., Md.)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D., D.C.)
Suhas Subramanyam (D., Va.)
James Walkinsaw (D., Va.)
Then there are the two Democrats who voted “present” rather than take responsibility by making an actual decision: Reps. David Min (D., Cal.) and Yassamin Ansari (D., Wash.). That is the “profile of courage” for some members: voting that “I’m here” without taking a position on open contempt for the Committee.
Figures like Ro Khanna have long portrayed themselves as more moderate voices, but appear to be yielding to the far left, including his recent support for the disastrous wealth tax in California. Now he is effectively saying that congressional subpoenas simply do not apply to the Clintons like they would every other American.
The three Democrats who voted to advance the resolution against Hillary Clinton are Lee, Stansbury and Tlaib, according to Politico.
Two Democrats voted “present” for the Bill Clinton contempt resolution: California Rep. David Min and Washington Rep. Yassamin Ansari, while just Min voted “present” on the Hillary Clinton resolution.
This vote was the true test of courage for House members. There has to be something that is not entirely dispensable in the face of political advantage. Even if you disagree with the need for a subpoena, members should be able to support the authority of their colleagues to demand that everyone, even the Clintons, respect such subpoenas.
For a party that runs on fighting the privileged and entitled wealthy class, this vote is comically ironic. They are supporting the claim of the Clintons that they get to decide when they will be subject to legal demands without offering an even remotely plausible legal defenses.
Donald Trump confirmed that US special forces used a ‘secret sonic’ weapon during the daring capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
The President on Tuesday night bragged that ‘nobody else’ has the weapon, while glorifying the capabilities of the US military.
The exact nature of the weapons and how it was used is unknown. Trump was coy when giving details during an interview with NewsNation anchor Katie Pavlich.
Pavlich asked Trump whether Americans should be ‘afraid’ of these sonic devices.
‘Well yeah,’ Trump responded.
He then added that only the US military has access to the sonic weapons by noting, ‘It’s something I don’t wanna… nobody else has it.’
‘But we have weapons nobody else knows about.’ Trump continued. ‘And, I say it’s probably good not to talk about it, but we have some amazing weapons.’
Following the capture of Maduro, reports surfaced that special forces used unknown sonic weapons to disable the Cuban bodyguards assigned to protect the Venezuelan dictator.
The President on Tuesday night bragged that ‘nobody else’ has the weapon, while glorifying the capabilities of the US military
Following reports of the weapons existence, Kremlin officials have demanded that the US provide more information about the sonic device
The report surfaced online by an X account claiming that the sonic weapon caused Venezuelan soldiers to vomit blood. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt shared the testimony via X earlier this month.
Leavitt’s account on X shared an interview with an unnamed security guard who claimed to be working the night the US struck Venezuela and took Maduro on drug trafficking charges.
The interview saw the security guard reveal the terrifying capabilities of the mysterious new US military weapon, which he described as a ‘very intense sound wave’ that disabled Venezuelan forces.
Mike Netter, the vice chairman of Rebuild California, first shared in the days after the attack in an X post that received over 15 million views in a day, and he said the apparent use of the sonic weapon ‘explains a lot about why the tone across Latin America suddenly changed.’
‘Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside,’ the security guard reportedly said. ‘We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move.
‘We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon or whatever it was.’
Following reports of the weapons existence, Kremlin officials have demanded that the US provide more information about the sonic device.
US special forces captured Nicolás Maduro earlier this month on the orders of President Trump
Putin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said his government would begin investigating and obtaining more information regarding Trump’s remarks.
Sonic weapons have been linked to the ‘Havana Syndrome’, a controversial disease which is yet to be formally recognized but has been put forward as an explanation for dozens of anomalous ailments hitting US officials.
The condition was first documented in 2016, after officials said a localized sound wave caused symptoms including headaches, dizziness, nausea, cognitive impairment, memory lapses, balance issues and insomnia.
If the weapon system Trump is referring to is a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), then this device has been used by other countries’ militaries all over the world, including Israel.
An LRAD is a specialized loudspeaker that fires a concentrated beam of sound, rather than spraying noise in all directions like a typical bullhorn.
LRADs are used by military, law enforcement and maritime security for communication, crowd control and defense against pirates.
Capable of reaching up to 3.5 miles for voice, they can also emit excruciating sound at 160 decibels as a deterrent that can cause hearing loss.
US President Donald Trump has said that the Greenland deal currently being worked out by his administration and NATO would grant American forces “total access” to the territory at zero cost to Washington.
Earlier this month, Trump promised to seize Greenland from Denmark “the easy way” or “the hard way.” During a speech at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos on Wednesday, he described the island as “ours,” and called on Copenhagen to enter “immediate negotiations” to hand it over to the US.
Denmark refused, and Trump softened his approach after a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte later that evening. He said that he would no longer tariff European nations opposing his acquisition plans, and that he and Rutte had come up with a deal that “everybody’s very happy with.”
“It’s being negotiated right now,” he told Fox News on Thursday.
“I think it’s gonna be something,” he said.
Trump said that Greenland is vital for his planned ‘Golden Dome’ missile defense system, a project that the Congressional Budget Office estimates will cost the US $831 billion. Trump claimed on Thursday that the system – which will supposedly utilize space-based interceptors – will be “Israel times probably 100.”
Neither Rutte nor Trump have commented on whether their deal would impact Danish sovereignty. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said he had spoken with Rutte but declined to provide details.
Greenland already hosts around 150 US troops at Pituffik Space Base, formerly known as Thule Air Base. Under the 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement, American forces can move freely throughout the territory, and there is no upper limit set on the number of US troops that can be deployed there.
Trump has claimed that only US ownership can protect Greenland from Russia and China, arguing that both would claim the island if the US didn’t take it first. However, Denmark maintains that there is no external threat to Greenland “today.” Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Greenland is of no concern to Moscow, and that the US and Denmark would “sort it out among themselves.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives in Beijing on January 14, 2026. Carney kicked off an official visit to China from Wednesday to Saturday. Photo: VCG
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for an official visit to China through Saturday. This marks the first trip to China by a Canadian Prime Minister in eight years.
Some Chinese experts said that Carney’s visit may also mark a pivotal step in efforts to stabilize and repair China-Canada relations. Using Carney’s visit as a starting point to advance consensus and restore economic and trade ties would help further stabilize China-Canada relations, allowing more room for Ottawa to balance its ties with both Washington and Beijing.
“I am headed to Beijing. China is our second-largest trading partner, and the world’s second largest economy,” Carney wrote on X on Tuesday local time. “A pragmatic and constructive relationship between our nations will create greater stability, security, and prosperity on both sides of the Pacific.”
He also posted a photo showing himself waving after stepping onto the aircraft’s boarding stairs, with the plane’s cabin door open behind him.
Upon arrival later on Wednesday, Carney was welcomed at Beijing Capital International Airport by Chinese officials and the Guard of Honor, according to video clips from CCTV.
China attaches high importance to the visit. President Xi Jinping will meet with Prime Minister Carney to provide new strategic guidance for the further improvement and development of bilateral relations. Premier Li Qiang and Chairman Zhao Leji of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress will hold talks and meet with him respectively to have broad-based and in-depth exchanges of views on bilateral relations and issues of mutual interests, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Carney’s pre-departure tweet to China conveyed goodwill and signaled a willingness to build consensus for tangible cooperation. Although China and Canada have maintained constructive engagement in recent months, concrete progress in economic and trade ties has yet to materialize, making the visit an effort to move beyond symbolism toward actionable outcomes, Zhao Xingshu, a deputy director of the Department of Canadian Studies at the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
The China-Canada leaders’ meeting on the sidelines of last year’s APEC meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, sent a positive signal, and Carney’s current visit is both a follow-up to that consensus and a reflection of a growing sense of urgency in Ottawa, Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
That urgency, Lü noted, stems from Canada’s unique strategic predicament. As a North American country, Canada is facing what he described as “unprecedented security pressure from its neighbor,” prompting a reassessment of its relations with major powers and a shift away from the previous government’s one-sided approach. In this context, managing ties with major powers has become an urgent, and in some respects existential strategic task for Canada.
Carney’s visit may also mark a pivotal step in efforts to stabilize and repair China-Canada relations. Whether Canada can seize the opportunity to translate diplomatic goodwill into concrete outcomes through pragmatic cooperation in trade, climate action, and multilateral affairs, will shape not only the future of bilateral ties but also broader stability and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific, Lü said.
Move toward diversification
Canada announced Carney’s plan to visit China and Switzerland on January 7, and said that Canada’s new government is moving its economy from reliance to resilience by “building our strength at home, working to double our non-US exports, and attracting massive new investment.”
Trade is expected to feature prominently on Carney’s agenda, alongside agriculture and international security. While some Western media have highlighted bilateral frictions, particularly disputes over tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, some Chinese experts said the two sides still have room to resolve differences through sincere dialogue that aligns with their respective interests, rather than following the US approach of imposing unilateral trade pressure.
Lü said that even in areas Canada views as competitive, there is significant room for complementary cooperation with China. For example, Canada’s strength in traditional auto parts could be redirected toward EV components, allowing it to integrate into China’s mature electric vehicle ecosystem as a key supply-chain partner.
While full vehicle manufacturing may not be Canada’s strong suit, deeper participation in the industrial chain would both create opportunities and help ease its dependence on the US market. Overall, cooperation remains the central focus of Carney’s visit, said Lü.
Canadian and other Western media have extensively covered Carney’s visit to China in recent days. A BBC report on Wednesday said that Carney faces a “delicate balancing act” during his China visit. On Wednesday, a report in The New York Times claimed that “Carney…is spending a significant chunk of his time overseas seeking new customers for Canadian goods. China is at the top of his list.”
A report in Canadian media The Globe and Mail on Tuesday noted that Carney’s entourage for the China trip will include five cabinet members, the biggest ministerial delegation that has accompanied Carney on a foreign trip so far. It also claimed that Carney’s trip to China comes with an agenda that would have seemed unlikely before Trump took office – warming up ties with China “to a degree not seen in a decade, plus carving out a bigger role for Beijing in Canada’s economy.”
Also on Tuesday, The Globe and Mail reported that Trump described the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade as “irrelevant,” remarks coming just a day ahead of Carney’s visit to China. The report added that Trump’s comments have unsettled both Canada and Mexico ahead of an expected renegotiation of the continental trade pact later this year.
Canada has come to realize that the Pacific Rim’s pathway to stability is under threat. This reflects not only concern over Canada’s own position, but also deeper anxiety that a vast, tightly interconnected trans-Pacific trade system is being destabilized by US unilateralism, Lü said, noting that with trade protectionism on the rise globally, China and Canada need frank and proactive consultations aimed at delivering concrete outcomes.
Zhao noted that amid China-US strategic competition, managing ties with China has become a key test for Canada. The resumption of the China-Canada diplomatic dialogue reflects Ottawa’s effort to reassess its role within the US alliance framework, as bilateral exchanges enter a phase of recalibration.
If Carney’s visit can anchor cooperation around shared interests and deliver tangible progress in restoring economic and trade ties, it may help steer China-Canada relations back onto a healthy and sustainable path, and support a more balanced relationship with the US, Zhao said.
Story of Samson in Judges chapter 16 in the Old Testament part of the Bible.
by Brian Shilhavy Health Impact News
Last week, Israeli press reported a 4.2 earthquake in Dimona, near a major nuclear facility.
4.2 magnitude earthquake recorded in southern Israel
The epicentre was registered near a major nuclear facility, but Magen David Adom has confirmed that no injuries have been reported and witness testimony suggests damage in the area was limited
An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale has set off alerts in the Dead Sea and southern Negev regions of Israel.
According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre, the quake took place around 9am IST (7am GMT) with the epicentre near Dimona.
Dimona is the third largest city in the Negev, with an estimated population of just under 40,000 people, and his home to the Negev Nuclear Research Centre.
One local resident, who left a testimony on the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre’s website, said they felt their bed moving.
Other testimonies included a resident of Beersheba, 49km west from epicenter, who said: “We live on a high floor. We felt the earthquake. The lamps on the ceiling moved.”
One person even reported feeling tremors in Haifa – 192km north-west of the epicentre – saying: “Felt a quake while sitting on my chair. Furniture was shaking lightly.”
Testimonies also came in from nearby Jordan, with a resident of Ma’an, 108km south-east of the epicentre, reporting: “I felt the desk in my office moving side to side for 2 seconds.”
There has been speculation that what caused the earthquake was a nuclear bomb explosion underground.
Max Blumenthal was interviewed on The Jimmy Dore Show a few days ago where they were discussing the Iran situation, and when he mentioned this earthquake in Dimona within the context of Israel trying to put pressure on Trump to attack Iran, he brought up the topic of “The Samson Option” which has been allegedly used to blackmail U.S. Presidents in the past to gain their military support.
The “Samson Option” is named after the Biblical character of Samson in the Old Testament book of Judges, where Samson committed suicide while also annihilating Israel’s enemies at the same time.
The current day meaning is that Israel would use this option to cause a nuclear war, knowing full well it might destroy their own country.
I saw Blumenthal’s comments in a clip out of the interview, but I watched the entire interview today with Jimmy Dore, and it is well worth watching, and easy to follow along at higher speeds.
The section about the “Samson Option” starts around the 1:23:20 mark.
Here is some more information about the “Samson Option”, which has allegedly been used as a threat to blackmail U.S. Presidents to support Israel since the Nixon years.
The Samson Option (Hebrew: ברירת שמשון, romanized: b’rerat shimshon) is Israel’s deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons as a “last resort” against a country whose military has invaded and/or destroyed much of Israel.
The name is a reference to the biblical Israelite judge Samson who pushed apart the pillars of a Philistine temple, bringing down the roof and killing himself and thousands of Philistines who had captured him.
When the Lehi militant group were discussing ways to assassinate General Evelyn Barker, the British Army commander in Mandatory Palestine, a young woman volunteered to do the assassination as a suicide bombing.
She said “Let my soul die with the Philistines [he]” as a reference to the Samson story in the Hebrew Bible. Other members of the group rejected her offer.
Israel refuses to confirm or deny it has nuclear weapons or to describe how it would use them, a policy of deliberate ambiguity known as “nuclear ambiguity” or “nuclear opacity.”
This has made it difficult for anyone outside the Israeli government to describe the country’s true nuclear policy definitively, while still allowing Israel to influence the perceptions, strategies and actions of other governments.
However, over the years, some Israeli leaders have publicly acknowledged their country’s nuclear capability: Ephraim Katzir in 1974, Moshe Dayan in 1981, Shimon Peres in 1998, and Ehud Olmert in 2006.
During his 2006 confirmation hearings before the United States Senate regarding his appointment as George W. Bush’s secretary of defense, Robert Gates admitted that Israel had nuclear weapons, and two years later, in 2008, former US president Jimmy Carter stated the number of nuclear weapons held by Israel to be “150 or more”.
In his 2008 book The Culture of War, Martin van Creveld, a professor of military history at Israel’s Hebrew University, wrote that since Gates admitted that Israel had nuclear weapons, any talk of Israel’s nuclear weapons in Israel can lead to “arrest, trial, and imprisonment.” Thus Israeli commentators talk in euphemisms such as “doomsday weapons” and the Samson Option.
Nevertheless, as early as 1976, the CIA believed that Israel possessed 10 to 20 nuclear weapons. By 2002, it was estimated that the number had increased to between 75 and 200 thermonuclear weapons, each in the multiple-megaton range.
Kenneth S. Brower has estimated as many as 400 nuclear weapons. These can be launched from land, sea and air. This gives Israel a second strike option even if much of the country is destroyed.
In 1991, American investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize winning political writer Seymour Hersh authored the book Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal & American Foreign Policy.
In the preface of the book he writes: “This is a book about how Israel became a nuclear power in secret. It also tells how that secret was shared, sanctioned, and, at times, willfully ignored by the top political and military officials of the United States since the Eisenhower years.”
U.S. Army personnel, Israeli military personnel and others international officials monitor screens displaying maps and imagery of the Gaza Strip during a media tour inside the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) on November 20, 2025 in Kiryat Gat, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
The U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Center is proposing a residential zone in Gaza with biometric surveillance, checkpoints, and educational programs promoting normalization with Israel.
The U.S. military-led group supporting “stabilization efforts” in Gaza has put forward plans for a housing block for Palestinians in Gaza in an area under full Israel military control. According to materials circulated by the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) and obtained by Drop Site News, the “planned community,” if developed, would contain and control its residents through biometric surveillance, checkpoints, monitoring of purchases, and educational programs promoting normalization with Israel.
The CMCC was established by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on October 17, one week after Hamas and Israel agreed to an exchange of captives and a ceasefire was supposed to go into effect. The center, which is based in a large warehouse-style building in Kiryat Gat in southern Israel and involves dozens of countries and organizations, is supposed to “monitor implementation of the ceasefire” and “help facilitate the flow of humanitarian, logistical, and security assistance from international counterparts into Gaza,” according to CENTCOM.
The CMCC is led by U.S. Army Lieutenant General Patrick D. Frank and includes both U.S. and Israeli military officials along with personnel from dozens of countries, including France, Britain, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. The CMCC was a key feature of President Trump’s “ceasefire” plan, though it is unclear where exactly it will operate within the new structures being created after Trump announced Phase Two of the plan last week, including the formation of a so-called “Board of Peace” to oversee Gaza with a Founding Executive Board beneath it and a Gaza Executive Board of Palestinian technocrats beneath that.
In November, news first emerged that the Trump administration was planning the construction of a number of residential compounds, dubbed “Alternative Safe Communities” to house Palestinians in Gaza east of the yellow line, an area occupied and controlled by the Israeli military. Analysis of satellite imagery by Forensic Architecture suggests the first of these so-called communities is being prepared on a 1-square-kilometer plot of land in Rafah in southern Gaza at the intersection of two military corridors.
“Plans are rapidly accelerating for what U.S. officials last week cynically referred to as the ‘Gaza first planned community,’ previously known as ‘alternative safe communities,’” Jonathan Whittall, a senior UN official in Palestine between 2022 and 2025 and the executive Director of KEYS Initiative, a political affairs and strategic advisory organization, said after reviewing a transcript of the materials obtained by Drop Site. “This is the next phase in the weaponization of aid.”
Last week, a presentation was given at CMCC headquarters about the “Gaza First Planned Community” that is being built to house up to 25,000 Palestinians.
Palestinians would have to pass through a checkpoint to access the zone. “Residents will be able to enter and exit the neighborhood freely, subject to security checks to prevent the introduction of weapons and hostile elements,” the materials state. “All entering residents will be registered with biometric documentation to enable identification for movement and civil services.”
“The registry will be based on Palestinian ID numbers issued by the authorities in coordination with COGAT,” a reference to the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories—the branch of the Israeli military that oversees Palestinian civilian affairs in the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza—giving the Israeli military even more surveillance control over Palestinians housed in the zone.
CENTCOM directed inquiries from Drop Site about the CMCC’s plans to the White House, who in turn directed inquiries to the State Department. No one provided comment. Part of the CMCC presentation for a “Gaza First Planned Community” on January 14, 2026.
The presentation does not specify who would be selecting Palestinians to live in the zone, though all security checks for Palestinians in Gaza in the past (for example to be allowed to enter or exit the enclave) have ultimately gone through COGAT. It does, however, provide a set of criteria for deciding which Palestinians should be “invited” to live there:
The population should be based on Palestinian residents invited based on the following criteria:
Priority is given to residents of the Shaboura and Rafah areas from before the war.
Intact extended families are preferred to enable mutual aid and prevent friction.
Essential professionals are required: teachers, medical staff, rescue personnel, community workers, merchants, administrative/municipal staff, and banking/finance professionals.
All individuals will undergo security vetting to prevent the entry of weapons or Hamas elements.
As for Palestinians who may have lived there or have a legal claim to the land, the presentation notes that “an examination is required regarding potential private rights holders, including mechanisms for registration and compensation.”
The promise of compensation to private land owners is striking in the face of the reality in Gaza after over two years of Israel’s genocidal assault, where most of the housing and civilian infrastructure in the enclave has been reduced to rubble, nearly the entire Palestinian population have been displaced from their homes, and Israeli troops occupy over half of the territory.
The disparity between CMCC’s plans and Israel’s actions on the ground is reportedly leading several European countries to consider reducing their presence at the center or to stop sending personnel altogether, according to Reuters, citing concerns that CMCC has failed to increase the delivery of aid into Gaza.
The proposed residential zone is referred to in the CMCC presentation as “the Emirati compound.” While it is unclear why that name was chosen, the Emirati field hospital, which is funded by the UAE, is nearby in Rafah. The UAE established formal relations with Israel in September 2020, as part of the Abraham Accords brokered by the first Trump administration that included other countries, including Bahrain, Morocco. Since then, the UAE has normalized relations with Israel more than any other Arab country, with robust trade, tourism, and defense cooperation. On Tuesday, the UAE accepted Trump’s invitation to join the “Board of Peace” that will oversee Gaza, becoming one of the first countries to do so.
Part of the CMCC’s proposals regarding schooling in the planned residential zone seem aimed at promoting an Emirati-inspired reeducation program. It states that “Temporary ‘Emergency Studies’ can expedite a curriculum framework to resume classrooms. The curriculum will not be Hamas-based but will follow ‘Culture of Peace’ principles, e,g., modeled after the UAE.” The text of the normalization agreement between the UAE and Israel says both countries will “undertake to foster mutual understanding, respect, co-existence and a culture of peace between their societies.” The UAE embassy in Washington, D.C. did not respond to inquiries from Drop Site.
The CMCC presentation also states that “educational programs can prevent diversion of an uneducated and unoccupied population to misaligned activities.” Despite Israel’s brutal occupation, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have had one of the highest literacy rates in the world, reaching over 97 percent in 2020, with high rates of enrollment in secondary and higher education.
The plan would also bring economic transactions under Israeli surveillance, replacing Gaza’s largely cash-based economy with “Electronic Shekel wallets” which would be used as “primary modes of commerce as they are secure and mitigate diversion of goods and funds to the Hamas financial channels.”
The CMCC also proposes that “residents should be permitted to import products into the Gaza Strip to facilitate and encourage commerce and economic growth” but that “products would be subject to security restrictions and checks at crossings.” The presentation makes no mention of the fact that Israel, which controls all of the crossings into Gaza, has severely restricted the entry of goods for nearly 20 years.
“This community being established in Rafah will form the blueprint for how Israeli control could be deepened and rolled out further,” Whittall told Drop Site. “After Gaza was razed, starved, and deliberately blockaded over the past years, these ‘new’ communities built on the rubble of peoples homes are not only governance labs to test ultimate control and subjugation, but they are also the reincarnation of refugee camps. They are designed to contain a new generation of dispossessed Palestinians, effectively screened and corralled into shrinking Israeli-controlled zones in exchange for survival. Meanwhile, the so-called ‘red-zones’ remain under assault, increasingly cut off from a humanitarian system that is being deliberately obstructed.”
To enforce the CMCC’s restrictive vision, which would corral selected Palestinians into a zone where Israel and outside forces have complete economic, social, and security control, a police force would be installed that would operate under an international security force. “Civil policing will operate on-site to maintain public order, operating under the ISF,” the presentation states, referring to the International Stabilization Force that has yet to be formed but will be led by Major General Jasper Jeffries, the commander of U.S. Special Operations Command Central. The presentation adds, “Security-sector reform requires updated police and civil defense laws, strong oversight and accountability, people-centered security approaches, and measures to prevent radicalization.”
Part of the CMCC presentation for a “Gaza First Planned Community” on January 14, 2026
Text of the Presentation Delivered at the CMCC in Southern Israel on January 14, 2026
Municipality
The population should be based on Palestinian residents invited based on the following criteria:
Priority is given to residents of the Shaboura and Rafah areas from before the war.
Intact extended families are preferred to enable mutual aid and prevent friction.
Essential professionals are required: teachers, medical staff, rescue personnel, community workers, merchants, administrative/municipal staff, and banking/finance professionals.
All individuals will undergo security vetting to prevent the entry of weapons or Hamas elements.
Residents will be able to enter and exit the neighborhood freely, subject to security checks to prevent the introduction of weapons and hostile elements.
Initially, a temporary community directorate should be appointed from among the residents. Elections for a neighborhood directorate should be held in the future as the project develops.
The directorate would facilitate coordination with the relevant authorities for regional services (major infrastructure) and with funding bodies for municipal services.
The directorate would manage basic municipal services such as water, sanitation, electricity, etc although service payment by residents requires further discussion.
All entering residents will be registered with biometric documentation to enable identification for movement and civil services.
The registry will be based on Palestinian ID numbers issued by the authorities in coordination with COGAT.
Residents needing to travel abroad may use their Palestinian passports. Those who have lost documents or require new ones can process them through the Palestinian Authority (PA) via a local post office branch to be opened on-site.
Residents can report deaths or births occurring during the war to the PA population registry via the local post office.
Since the Emirati compound is intended to be on public land, an examination is required regarding potential private rights holders, including mechanisms for registration and compensation.
The public use of land with private rights requires in-depth discussion with legal entities.
Donor-funded projects within the community will be coordinated by a supervisory mechanism to ensure funds go directly to local projects since the PA’s Municipal Development and Lending Fund (MDLF) [mechanism cannot] be used.
Economy
The Israeli Shekel will remain legal tender, as it is in the rest of Gaza and the West Bank.
Electronic Shekel wallets should be primary modes of commerce as they are secure and mitigate diversion of goods and funds to the Hamas financial channels.
A Bank of Palestine branch in the community would provide secure and transparent commerce.
Private sector shops and markets should be prioritized to promote productive economic initiatives.
Efforts should be made to promote paid employment for the maximum number of residents. Employment will be based on essential professions, public services, and unskilled labor for the public good and managed through an established employment bureau.
On January 6, 2012, Brig. Gen. William L. Smith, Director Joint Staff and Commander, Domestic Operations for Joint Force Headquarters of Texas (second from left) met with members of the Texas State Guard and received an overview of the annual Texas Oral Rabies Vaccination Program in Zapata, Texas. Since the program’s inception in 1995, more than 39 million doses of the oral rabies vaccine, Raboral V RG, have been distributed over approximately 540,000 square miles of Texas. (U.S. Army Photo photo by Laura L. Lopez/Wikimedia Commons).
Animals that ingest the oral vaccine are said to be contagious to other animals and humans for over a month.
The Texas Department of Health and Human Services (DHS) has begun its annual distribution of RABORAL V-RG®, an oral rabies vaccine (ORV) bait—dropping the live laboratory-made virus from airplanes over Texas, as well as distributing it by hand.
The $2 million annual project is funded by the State of Texas and the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service/Wildlife Services.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has known for over a decade that the RABORAL edible vaccine leaves “persons at risk for vaccine exposure and vaccine virus infection.”
Yet the department still allows millions of live genetically modified virus baits to be dispersed over communities, forests, and waterways each year without public notice, informed consent, or comprehensive biosafety oversight—posing potential risks to human health, wildlife, and national biosecurity.
Americans are being involuntarily exposed to laboratory-engineered pathogens capable of infecting multiple species, with no transparent risk disclosure or opt-out mechanism.
Texas Department of State of Health Services will expand anti-rabies efforts around the El Paso area in January during the agency’s 32nd annual Oral Rabies Vaccination Program. Aerial bait distribution, which occurs along much of the Texas-Mexico border, was increased last year to include far West Texas as a response to the Arizona Fox rabies variant that is now established in New Mexico and within 150 miles of the Texas border.
In addition to those continued flights this year, rabies vaccine baits will also be distributed by hand in targeted areas around the city.
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The rabies vaccine bait air drop will begin with flights from Alpine on Jan. 16, with additional flights slated to originate from Del Rio International Airport on Jan. 21, weather permitting. The vaccine bait, manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc., is enclosed in a small plastic packet (similar to a fast-food ketchup package) dipped in fish oil and fish-meal crumbles to attract wild canids, like coyotes and foxes.
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Between six and nine flights are scheduled per day during the two-week operation, with airdrop aircraft flying at 500 to 1,000 feet above ground level and dropping roughly 693,600 oral rabies vaccine baits at 50 baits per square mile. ORVP’s Border Maintenance Zone includes 19 Texas counties including El Paso, Hudspeth, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Brewster, Pecos, Terrell, Val Verde, Kinney, Maverick, Zavala, Dimmit, Webb, Zapata, Starr, Hidalgo, Cameron and Willacy.
In addition to the hand-distribution efforts in the El Paso area, baits will also be distributed by hand in parts of Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr and Willacy counties.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture warns humans “should leave [the live-virus containing edible vaccine] undisturbed if they are encountered.”
If people come in contact with the bait, “they should immediately wash the contact area with warm water and soap.”
Dogs that consume the bait “may experience a temporary upset stomach.”
A July 2019 peer-reviewed study in Vaccineconfirms the RABORAL oral rabies vaccine:
is a genetically engineered chimeric “Frankenstein” human virus expressing a rabies gene,
sheds for weeks in multiple species,
was not tested for live virus persistence,
can potentially infect non-target animals and humans,
and was studied by researchers financially tied to its sale.
Most alarmingly, the study confirmed that virus DNA from the edible vaccine can be detected in both oral and rectal swabs post-inoculation in most animals, “followed by a resurgence of shedding between days 17 and 34 in some species.”
This means animals that ingest the oral vaccine are said to be contagious to other animals and humans for over a month.
A September 2017 Veterinary Research publication confirms that the live virus in RABORAL edible vaccines actively replicates in animals after ingestion, that horizontal transmission of the vaccine virus between animals has occurred, and that humans have been infected with vaccine-derived vaccinia following bait exposure.
The same study shows that RABORAL baits deliberately disperse tetracycline—a toxic ingredient in the vaccine—into the environment as a biomarker, where it accumulates in animal bone and teeth, can misrepresent true vaccination, and is acknowledged to carry potential ecotoxicity and antimicrobial-resistance risks with long-term use.
In the name of “wildlife management,” Texas authorities are blanketing cities with what are said to be live virus-containing packets without full public consent.
How many Texans have been informed that they are living inside an ongoing, state- and federally funded environmental release of a live, laboratory-engineered virus documented to replicate, spread between animals, persist in bodily secretions, and infect humans—without informed consent or any meaningful ability to refuse exposure?
Brief Notes: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a combative keynote at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos, touting what he calls a historic American economic boom while lashing out at Europe’s leaders and policies. In this full speech, he defends tariffs, deregulation, fossil-fuel expansion, and strict immigration controls, framing them as the engine of U.S. prosperity. Trump openly blasts NATO, Denmark, Emmanuel Macron, and Mark Carney, and even revives his push to assert U.S. control over Greenland, igniting fresh transatlantic tensions.
President Trump’s Opening Remarks
PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP: Well, thank you very much, Larry. It’s great to be back in beautiful Davos, Switzerland, and to address so many respected business leaders, so many friends, a few enemies.
Welcome to this year’s World Economic Forum with truly phenomenal news from America. Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of my inauguration, and today, after 12 months back in the White House, our economy is booming, growth is exploding, productivity is surging, investment is soaring, incomes are rising, inflation has been defeated, our previously open and dangerous border is closed and virtually impenetrable, and the United States is in the midst of the fastest and most dramatic economic turnaround in our country’s history.
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Record-Breaking Economic Achievements
Since the election, the stock market has set 52 all-time high records. So that’s in one year, 52 records, adding $9 trillion in value to retirement accounts, 401ks, and people’s savings. People are doing very well. They’re very happy with me.
Since my inauguration, we’ve lifted more than 1.2 million people off of food stamps. And after four years in which Biden secured less than $1 trillion of new investment in our country — think of that, $1 trillion, substantially less than that — in four years, we’ve secured commitments for a record-breaking $18 trillion.
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America as the Global Economic Engine
And this is all great news, and it’s great for all nations. The USA is the economic engine on the planet. And when America booms, the entire world booms. It’s been the history. When it goes bad, it goes bad.
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A Transformation Like America Has Not Seen in Over 100 Years
In one year, our agenda has produced a transformation like America has not seen in over 100 years.
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Cutting Spending and Slashing Regulations
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The Largest Tax Cuts in American History
In July, we passed the largest tax cuts in American history, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.
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Tariffs and Trade Deficit Reduction
With tariffs, we’ve radically reduced our ballooning trade deficit, which was the largest in world history. We were losing more than $1 trillion every single year, and it was just wasted. It was going to waste. But in one year, I slashed our monthly trade deficit by a staggering 77 percent.
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American exports are now up by more than $150 billion. Domestic steel production is up by 300,000 tons a month, and it’s doubling over the next four months. It’s doubling and tripling, and we have steel plants being built all over the country.
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Historic Trade Deals With Global Partners
During the process, we’ve made historic trade deals with partners covering 40 percent of all U.S. trade, some of the greatest companies and countries in the world. We have countries as our partner, too.
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Reversing Biden’s Energy Policies
In America, I’ve stopped the nation-wrecking energy policies that drive up prices while sending jobs and factories to the world’s worst polluters.
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Under my leadership, U.S. natural gas production is at an all-time high, by far. U.S. oil production is up by 730,000 barrels a day. And last week, we picked up 50 million barrels from Venezuela alone.
Venezuela Oil Deal
Venezuela has been an amazing place for so many years, but then they went bad with their policies. Ten years ago, it was a great country, and now it’s got problems. But we’re helping them. And those 50 million barrels, we’re going to be splitting up with them, and they’ll be making more money than they’ve made in a long time. Venezuela is going to do fantastically well. We appreciate all of the cooperation we’ve been giving. We’ve been giving great cooperation. Once the attack ended, the attack ended, and they said, “let’s make a deal.” More people should do that.
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Gasoline Prices Plummet
The price of gasoline is now below $2.50 a gallon in many states, $2.30 a gallon in most states, and we’ll soon be averaging less than $2 a gallon. In many places, it’s already down, even lower, $1.95 a gallon. Numerous states are at $1.99, numbers that nobody has heard for years – actually, since my last administration, we got it down to around those numbers.
I’ve signed an order directing an approval of many new nuclear reactors. We’re going heavy into nuclear. I was not a big fan because I didn’t like the risk, the danger, but the progress they’ve made with nuclear is unbelievable, and the safety progress they’ve made is incredible. We’re very much into the world of nuclear energy, and we can have it now at good prices and very, very safe.
Leading the World in AI
And we’re leading the world in AI by a lot. We’re leading China by a lot.
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Avoiding Europe’s Energy Collapse
Because of my landslide election victory, the United States avoided the catastrophic energy collapse which befell every European nation that pursued the Green New Scam, perhaps the greatest hoax in history. The Green New Scam, windmills all over the place, destroy your land, destroy your land. Every time that goes around, you lose a thousand dollars. You’re supposed to make money with energy, not lose money.
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The United Kingdom’s Energy Crisis
The United Kingdom produces just one third of the total energy from all sources that it did in 1999.
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Europe’s Destructive Policies
The consequences of such destructive policies have been stark, including lower economic growth, lower standards of living, lower birth rates, more socially disruptive migration, more vulnerability to hostile foreign adversaries, and much, much smaller militaries.
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On Greenland and Denmark
Would you like me to say a few words of Greenland? I was going to leave it out of the speech, but I thought – I think I would have been reviewed very negatively. I have tremendous respect for both the people of Greenland and the people of Denmark. Tremendous respect. But every NATO ally has an obligation to be able to defend their own territory. And the fact is, no nation or group of nations is in any position to be able to secure Greenland other than the United States. We’re a great power, much greater than people even understand. I think they found that out two weeks ago in Venezuela.
We saw this in World War II, when Denmark fell to Germany after just six hours of fighting and was totally unable to defend either itself or Greenland. So the United States was then compelled – we did it, we felt an obligation to do it – to defend our own forces, to hold the Greenland territory. And hold it, we did, at great cost and expense. They didn’t have a chance of getting on it, and they tried. Denmark knows that.
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Weapons Systems and Strategic Security
So now our country and the world face much greater risks than it did ever before because of missiles, because of nuclear, because of weapons of warfare that I can’t even talk about.
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Strategic Importance of Greenland
Greenland is a vast, almost entirely uninhabited and undeveloped territory. The sitting undefended in a key strategic location between the United States, Russia and China, that’s exactly where it is right smack in the middle, wasn’t important nearly when we gave it back.
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Historical Attempts to Acquire Greenland
That’s why American presidents have sought to purchase Greenland for nearly two centuries. You know, for two centuries, they’ve been trying to do it.
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Seeking Acquisition Negotiations
And that’s the reason I’m seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States, just as we have acquired many other territories throughout our history, as many of the European nations have.
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Ukraine War and Election Claims
The war with Ukraine is an example. We are thousands of miles away, separated by a giant ocean. It’s a war that should have never started, and it wouldn’t have started if the 2020 U.S. presidential election weren’t rigged. It was a rigged election. Everybody now knows that. They found out. People will soon be prosecuted for what they did. It’s probably breaking news, but it should be. It was a rigged election. You can’t have rigged elections.
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Biden’s Ukraine Spending and Border Crisis
Biden had given Ukraine and NATO $350 billion of staggering sums, $350 billion. I came in, and just like the southern border, just like inflation, just like our economy, I said, wow, this place is in trouble, meaning our country. All of these things were out of control. But the border was out of control. We fixed it with the strongest border anywhere in the world.
Settling Eight Wars
And I’ve now been working on this war for one year, during which time I settled eight other wars, India, Pakistan.
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NATO Spending Reform
Until I came along, NATO was only supposed to pay 2% of GDP, but they weren’t paying. Most of the countries weren’t paying anything. The United States was paying for virtually 100% of NATO.
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OK, now everyone’s saying, oh, good. That’s probably the biggest statement I made because people thought I would use force. I don’t have to use force. I don’t want to use force. I won’t use force.
Greenland: From Trusteeship to Ownership Demand
All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland where we already had it as a trustee, but respectfully returned it back to Denmark not long ago after we defeated the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians and others in World War Two. We gave it back to them. We were a powerful force then, but we are a much more powerful force now.
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And all we’re asking for is to get Greenland, including right title and ownership, because you need the ownership to defend it.
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The “Greatest Golden Dome Ever Built”
All we want from Denmark for national and international security and to keep our very energetic and dangerous potential enemies at bay is this land on which we’re going to build the greatest Golden Dome ever built. We’re building the Golden Dome that’s going to just by its very nature going to be defending Canada.
Canada gets a lot of freebies from us, by the way. They should be grateful also. But they’re not. I watched your prime minister yesterday. He wasn’t so grateful. They should be grateful to us. Canada. Canada lives because of the United States. Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.
Israel’s Dome and U.S. Technology
What we did for Israel was amazing, but that’s nothing compared to what we have planned for the United States, Canada and the rest of the world. We are going to build a dome like no other. We did it. We did it for Israel. And by the way, I told Bibi, stop taking credit for the dome. That’s our technology. That’s our stuff.
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Ukraine Casualty Numbers
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Stopping the Bloodshed
So we’re since World War Two. They keep going, they’ll exceed World War Two. The numbers are staggering how many people they’ve lost. They don’t want to talk about it. Ukraine and Russia lost just tremendous amounts. And I’m dealing with President Putin and he wants to make a deal. I believe I’m dealing with President Zelensky and I think he wants to make a deal.
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From “Daddy” to Villain Over Greenland
And I’ve until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me “Daddy.” The last time, a very smart man said, “He’s our daddy. He’s running it.” I was like running it. I went from running it to being a terrible human being. But now what I’m asking for is a piece of ice, cold and poorly located, that can play a vital role in world peace and world protection. It’s a very small ask compared to what we have given them for many, many decades.
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Stock Market Reaction and Defense Spending
I mean, our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland’s already cost us a lot of money. But that dip is peanuts compared to what it’s gone up. And we have an unbelievable future in that stock.
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Greenland Ultimatum
So we want a piece of ice for world protection. And they won’t give it. We’ve never asked for anything else. And we could have kept that piece of land, and we didn’t. So they have a choice. You can say yes, and we will be very appreciative. Or you can say no, and we will remember.
Economic Security and NATO
A strong and secure America means a strong NATO, and that’s one reason why I’m working every day to ensure our military is very powerful, our borders are very strong. And above all, our economy is strong because national security requires economic security and economic prosperity, and we have the greatest that we’ve ever had.
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Favored Nation Drug Pricing Policy
One of my most favored nation policy for drug prices, the cost of prescription drugs is coming down by up to 90 percent, depending on the way you calculate.
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Three Minutes Per Country
It took me, on average, three minutes a country saying the same thing. You will do it. They all said, no, no, no. I will not do it. You’re asking me to double the cost of prescription. I said, that’s right, because you’ve been screwing us for 30 years. And they said, we will not do it.
Restoring the American Dream of Homeownership
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Capping Credit Card Interest Rates
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Securing America as the Crypto Capital of the World
To unleash innovation and savings and financing, I’m also working to ensure America remains the crypto capital of the world. And to that end, last year, I signed the landmark Genius Act into law. Now Congress is working very hard on crypto market structure legislation, Bitcoin, all of them, which I hope to sign very soon, unlocking new pathways for Americans to reach financial freedom.
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Mortgage Bonds and New Fed Chairman
Finally, I’ve instructed government backed institutions to purchase up to $200 billion in mortgage bonds to bring down interest rates. And I’ll be announcing a new Fed chairman in the not too distant future. I think you’ll do a very good job. So I gave away some of it. He did give that away. So we have something. Get something. But somebody that’s very respected. They’re all respected. They’re all great.
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Mortgage Rates and Housing Market Strategy
Last week, the average 30 year mortgage rate dropped below 6 percent for the first time in many years. Another major factor in driving up housing costs was the mass invasion of our borders.
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Interest Rates and America’s Economic Position
We can drop interest rates to a level. And that’s one thing we do want to do. That’s natural. That’s good for everybody. You know, the dropping of the interest rates, we should be paying a much lower interest rate than we are. We should be paying the lowest interest rate of any country in the world, because without the United States, you don’t have a country.
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Tariffs on Switzerland
So I said, let’s put a 30 percent tariff on them so that we get back some of it, not all of it at all. We still have a deficit, big deficit, 40, 41 million. That’s a big deficit. And I said, let’s put a tariff on. Different tariffs, different places, you’re all party to some cases, victims to them. But in the end, it’s a fair thing. And most of you realize that.
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The United States Is Keeping the Whole World Afloat
But I realize that we have many places like that where they’re making a fortune because of the United States. Without the United States, they wouldn’t be making anything. Think of it. Switzerland made $41 billion on us.
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America Should Pay the Lowest Interest Rate
But we should be paying the lowest interest rate of everybody. I hope Scott’s listening to this because we should be paying the lowest interest rate of everybody. Without us, without us, most of the countries don’t even work.
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Record Factory Construction and Foreign Investment
You know, all these factories that are being built at record, thousands of businesses are being built right now. Remember, $18 trillion is invested.
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Hundreds of big factories, car plants are moving back to the United States. They’re coming in from Canada. They’re coming in from Mexico, from Japan. Japan’s coming in and building plants here in order to avoid tariffs. They’re coming in from China. They’re coming in from all over the world.
We have more plants being built now, car plants, than we’ve ever had built even in the heyday from the 1940s and 50s. And they’re bigger. They don’t use renovations anymore where they take an old plant, they rip it down, they build a brand new plant, super modern plant. But it’s happening at levels that nobody’s ever seen.
Immigration and Crime Enforcement
In 2024, the U.S. built less than 2 million new homes, but Biden admitted more than 8 million new migrants. And those days are over. In 2025, for the first time in 50 years, the United States had reverse migration. Boy, that was nice.
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Washington D.C. Safety Transformation
You know, Washington, D.C., is the safest place now in the United States. It was a very dangerous place to walk, and now you can walk with your wife, your kids, right through the middle of the city. Right now, Washington, D.C., is as safe as it gets. It was one of the most unsafe.
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Memphis also. Memphis, Tennessee. New Orleans, Louisiana. We’re there for three weeks. We’ve cut the crime down by 64 percent within another month. Virtually no crime there. We can do that all over. We’re going to help the people in California.
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Cutting Welfare and Ending Sanctuary City Payments
We’re cutting illegal aliens off welfare and other government benefits, and I have directed that starting immediately there will be no more payments to sanctuary cities because they are really just sanctuaries for criminals.
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Fraud and Piracy
But equally importantly, we’re cracking down on more than $19 billion in fraud that was stolen by Somalian bandits. Can you believe the Somalians? They turned out to be higher IQ than we thought. And we say these are low IQ people. How did they go into Minnesota and steal all that money?
And we have, you know, they’re pirates. They’re good pirates, but we shoot them out of the water just like we shoot the drug boats out.
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Drug Interdiction at Sea
We’ve cut down with the hitting of the boats that are loaded up with drugs, including submarines. Can you believe they actually buy small? They call them mini-subs, very fast. They’re meant for drugs. We’ve knocked out two of them. The Democrats say they were fishing. You have ruined somebody’s fishing weekend, I would say. A submarine is not a fishing boat. You don’t fish.
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Immigration and Western Society
Situation in Minnesota reminds us that the West cannot mass import foreign cultures which have failed to ever build a successful society of their own.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a speech during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on January 20, 2026.Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via Getty
States like Canada have long known the current system of international rules-based order is a “fiction,” Carney said.
In an unusually candid speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned that world order is at a “rupture” point due to the U.S.’s longstanding vise-grip on the world and its swiftly expanding authoritarian nature under President Donald Trump.
Skewering “American hegemony,” Carney said that countries like Canada have long known that the idea of the international rules-based order was a “fiction” that states nonetheless signaled their support for in order to be granted access to crucial goods, trade, and other resources like finance.
For decades, states with “middle” amounts of power like Canada “participated in the rituals, and largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality,” Carney said. In return, the U.S. allowed other states access to important systems.
“This bargain no longer works,” Carney told the World Economic Forum. “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”
But, over the past two decades, great powers like the U.S. are increasingly using “economic integration as weapons,” he said. This is causing countries to retreat into themselves, becoming less reliant on outside sources — which Carney warned will lead to greater fragmentation and volatility.
“Tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination,” he said.
Countries like Canada “compete with each other to be the most accommodating,” he said. “This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.”
He calls for countries to form a third path, one of greater cooperation, in order to push back against the threats by major powers. Doing this would require dispensing with simply signalling support for global order in favor of redoubling efforts to actually enforce principles like those laid out in the UN charter, he said.
“We should not allow the rise of hard power to blind us to the fact that the power of legitimacy, integrity, and rules will remain strong if we choose to wield it together,” he said. Countries must “stop invoking the ‘rules-based international order’ as though it still functions as advertised. Call the system what it is: a period where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as a weapon of coercion.”
The speech comes just weeks after German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier similarly said that the U.S. is ending world order as it’s known, and instead turning the world “into a den of robbers, where the most unscrupulous take whatever they want” and countries are “treated as the property of a few great powers.”
Carney and Steinmeier both, perhaps, ignore their countries’ respective responsibilities for the erosion of the enforcement of international order — in theirsupport for Israel’s genocide in Gaza, their contributions to the global system of imperialism, and their participation in an increasing crackdown on asylum and immigration by wealthy countries, among other actions.
However, many experts have noted the vast erosion of international principles brought on by the U.S. in particular, which is accelerating under Trump.
Amnesty International USA warned in a report on Tuesday, the anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, that Trump’s first year has led to a “human rights emergency” in which the administration is “cracking the pillars of a free society.”
“At stake are the rights that enable people to defend all other rights and live without fear from the arbitrary exercise of power and discrimination, including the rights to freedom of the press, expression, and peaceful protest; a fair trial and due process; equality and non-discrimination; and privacy,” the report said. “When these rights are weakened, the harms do not stay contained — they spread.”
Dmitry Orlov
U.S. Army personnel, Israeli military personnel and others international officials monitor screens displaying maps and imagery of the Gaza Strip during a media tour inside the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) on November 20, 2025 in Kiryat Gat, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)
Part of the CMCC presentation for a “Gaza First Planned Community” on January 14, 2026.
Part of the CMCC presentation for a “Gaza First Planned Community” on January 14, 2026
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