Going to War

Shortly after Jan. 1, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military budget was being increased from $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, leading popular conservative commentator Tucker Carlson to claim that this can only indicate one thing: the United States will be going to war yet again.

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End Foreign Aid

As Congress negotiates a new bill to fund the entire federal government for the next few months, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) offered this suggestion: “This week I could save taxpayers $6.9 billion with three amendments I have submitted to cut foreign aid from the spending bill. One saves $3.3 billion from Israel. One saves $2.1 billion from Jordan. One saves $1.5 billion from Egypt.”

Affordable Meat?

State legislation (H.B. 396) recently passed the New Hampshire state House which allows small farms to process animals on site rather than having to trek all the way to USDA-run slaughterhouses. This will ease the burden for farmers struggling to find butchers and should make red meat much more affordable for Americans.

Manufacturing Struggles

U.S. manufacturing contracted for a 10th straight month in December, pointing to a continued drag in sentiment from tariffs and trade policy uncertainty, reports economic news outlet Barrons. The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) manufacturing index fell to 47.9 from November’s 48.2 reading, the lowest of 2025 despite modest improvements in employment and some other categories. A transportation company told Barrons, “The general mood of the industry is that the first half of 2026 will be another bust, and we’re now hoping things pick up in the second half, even as the North American truck fleet continues to age.”

Mossad in Iran

Many Iranians protesting in their country have legitimate grievances, but former Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo may have inadvertently clued the world into who is behind violent protests spreading across the Persian country, writing on social media platform “X” on Jan. 2: “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them.”

Mossad in Iran, Part II

On Dec. 29, one day after demonstrations kicked off in Iran, The Jerusalem Post published the following article, headlined “Mossad Spurs Iran Protests, Says Agent With Demonstrators in Farsi Message.” The article reports: “As protests grow across Iran, the Mossad posted an unusual Farsi message urging demonstrators to act, saying it is with them in the streets, amid rising economic pressure and public unrest.”

Violent Protests

Iran’s Fars News Agency has been reporting extensively on the riots taking place across Iran. In one of the worst examples, according to Fars, rioters in the city of Borujen set fire to an ancient library containing many original books and rare manuscripts, burning the building and all of its contents to the ground. In another example, Fars reported on video showing protesters attacking an Iranian police officer and then lighting him on fire and killing him.

Questionable Stats

When it comes to the numbers of protesters killed in Iran in the last few weeks, Western media have been relying on information released by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). The only problem is HRANA is based out of Northern Virginia, not Iran, and is largely funded by the CIA-backed National Endowment for Democracy, leading objective observers to question its objectivity.

What Is Going on?

Only days after U.S. special forces kidnapped former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Reuters reported that at least a dozen cargo ships including oil tankers from multiple BRICS nations left ports in Venezuela loaded with oil. These countries included China, Russia, and India. U.S. officials claimed at least three of the ships turned around and headed back to port, but global ship tracking websites still show significant sea trade going on in the country. “All the departed vessels identified are under sanctions and most are now sailing on the high seas without any known flag or current ship safety documentation in place, shipping data showed,” reported Reuters. “Half of them are supertankers that typically carry Venezuelan crude to China, according to Tanker Trackers.com and shipping documents from [state-run Venezuelan oil company] PDVSA.”

Venezuelan Deal

The New York Times reported on Oct. 10 that the United States and Venezuela were in negotiations in September and that Venezuela promised even more than the Trump administration was demanding, but Trump officials cut off negotiations anyway. Following that, the United States starting executing alleged drug dealers and confiscating oil tankers and then risking the lives of soldiers on a stunt to kidnap Maduro. “Under a deal discussed between a senior U.S. official and Mr. Maduro’s top aides, the Venezuelan strongman offered to open up all existing and future oil and gold projects to American companies, give preferential contracts to American businesses, reverse the flow of Venezuelan oil exports from China to the United States, and slash his country’s energy and mining contracts with Chinese, Iranian and Russian firms,” reported the Times. That deal certainly sounds better than the current chaos the U.S. has inflicted on Venezuela.

Insider Trading

A mysterious online bettor made more than $400,000 on Polymarket, a website that lets people wager cryptocurrency on the odds of real-world events occurring, by correctly predicting the U.S. would invade Venezuela and topple President Nicolas Maduro. The bets, which are viewable on Polymarket’s website, have prompted fresh concerns that the rise of similar platforms can allow insiders privy to confidential or classified information to easily use their knowledge to profit.

Surveillance State

According to news reports, federal agents on immigration duties have been taking unprecedented numbers of videos and photos as part of a growing surveillance state with no oversight. Agents have been working with Big Tech to implement facial recognition, phone tracking, license plate readers, and government databases that have been augmented by private technology companies.

Buying Greenlanders’ Support

According to multiple news reports, the White House may offer individual Greenlanders between $10,000 and $100,000 of U.S. taxpayers’ money to support secession from Denmark.

Sad State of Art in the U.S.

A shocking number of U.S. visas reserved for artists of “extraordinary ability” have been going to women who create internet pornography, according to new reports. These visas were once used to allow top musicians and painters to stay in the United States and work, but they now are being used for the likes of porn stars who came to the U.S. to make content for websites like “OnlyFans.” Immigration lawyers who spoke with news and commentary website “Florida Phoenix” said that over half of their clients seeking the coveted O-1B visa in recent years are either performers on the pornography platform or some other kind of “online influencer.” The U.S. O-1B visa is reportedly one of most difficult to secure and was first conceived around 1972 when lawmakers realized there was no immigration policy that helped attract top artistic talent to the country.

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