31 Dec 2025

Tusk: Hope for peace in Ukraine within weeks
Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine could be over within weeks, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. “Peace is in sight. There is no doubt that events have occurred that give grounds for hope that this war can end, and quite quickly,” Tusk said at a Polish government meeting on Tuesday, Reuters reports. When I say peace is in sight, I mean the coming weeks, not the coming months or years. In January, we all need to come together.

Protests in Iran over skyrocketing prices and collapsing currency
For the third day in a row, protests are taking place in Iran against skyrocketing prices and a collapsing currency. “We can barely afford a coffee,” says Tehran resident Omar. Shopkeepers in the capital closed their businesses on Monday after Iran’s hard-pressed currency hit new lows on the unofficial market.

Israel, U.S. Give Hamas Two-Month Deadline to Disarm
Israel and the United States agreed to give Hamas a two-month deadline to fully disarm following a high-level meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump The agreement includes clear criteria for Hamas’ disarmament, the demilitarization of Gaza, and the destruction of its underground tunnel network, with both nations rejecting any partial or symbolic compliance President Trump warned there would be “hell to pay” if Hamas refuses to disarm

AI Will Eat Itself; It’s Like Mad Cow Disease – Tech Insiders Not Concerned by Accelerating Development
As artificial intelligence accelerates into every corner of modern life, the dominant narrative remains one of inevitability. With smarter models and total automation, many feel catapulted toward a future reshaped by machines that outperform humans at almost everything. But increasingly, tech insiders are vocalising alternative views: that the trajectory is neither healthy, sustainable, or inevitable.

Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel on Tuesday said it had suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and CARE, from operating in the Gaza Strip for failing to comply with new registration rules. Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating the aid organizations.

Netanyahu enlists Elon Musk to bolster Israel’s AI sector
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk over the weekend, discussing the future of artificial intelligence in Israel and cooperation between the tech mogul and the Jewish state. Shortly after arriving in Florida on Sunday, the prime minister held a conference call with Musk from his hotel, where he was joined by Transportation Minister Miri Regev and the head of the National AI Directorate, Erez Eskel.

The year in review: Israel at a turning point
Despite political strains and wartime pressure, the government moved closer to completing a full term—something that has not happened in more than three decades. This past year marked a turning point for Israel. The shift began in 2024, with Israel’s pager operation against Hezbollah and the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. For the first time, Israel and Iran’s militaries confronted each other openly.

Israel, Iran engaged in secret indirect exchange
Israel and Iran have recently engaged in secret, indirect exchanges, according to a report published Tuesday by Israel’s N12, citing the regional outlet Amwaj.media, which is regarded as having reliable sources in Tehran. According to the report, the messages were conveyed through Russian President Vladimir Putin in an effort to prevent further security escalation, amid growing reports of possible additional Israeli strikes.

Netanyahu on Fox News: Hamas must disarm or disappear, Gaza peace depends on it
Discussing efforts to reach a second phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, Netanyahu was candid: “One word, disarmament.” He stated that Hamas still possesses 60,000 Kalashnikov rifles and maintains hundreds of kilometers of terror tunnels. “You’ve got to take all these rifles, take them away from them,” he said, noting Hamas’ refusal to disarm is the main obstacle to progress.

US envoy: Israel has full right to recognize Somaliland
Deputy US Ambassador to the United Nations Tammy Bruce on Monday strongly defended Israel’s recognition of Somaliland during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council convened to discuss the issue. “Israel has the same right to conduct diplomatic relations as any other sovereign state,” Bruce stated, “Earlier this year, several countries, including members of this Council, made the unilateral decision to recognize a nonexistent Palestinian state. And yet, no emergency meeting was called to express this Council’s outrage,” she said.

Israel asks Trump administration to exclude Turkey from Board of Peace, sources tell ‘Post’
In an effort to reduce Turkey’s involvement in Gaza, Israel asked the Trump administration to exclude President Recep Tayyip Erdogan from the Board of Peace (BoP) that the president is establishing, according to two officials familiar with the matter. The issue was raised during talks held in recent weeks between senior Israeli officials and senior Trump administration officials, which focused on the continued implementation of the Trump plan for Gaza. Israel has vetoed the presence of Turkish troops in Gaza as part of the International Stabilization Force

The ‘Zombie’ Caliphate: While the World Celebrates the Muslim Brotherhood’s Demise, Its Billion-Dollar Empire Thrives in Plain Sight
In Washington and Arab capitals, a comforting narrative has taken hold: The Muslim Brotherhood is finished. We are told that the Sisi regime in Egypt has crushed them, that Jordan has shuttered their offices, and that the “Islamist Winter” is finally over. The recent executive order by President Trump to review the group for terror designation is seen as the final nail in the coffin. But if you look away from the empty political offices and follow the money, you will find a terrifying reality. The Muslim Brotherhood hasn’t gone bankrupt; it has simply gone corporate.

Saudi strikes, Emirati retreat and separatist gains: making sense of Yemen’s growing chaos
A scenario that until recently would have seemed almost unthinkable became reality this week, as fractures within Yemen’s anti-Houthi camp led Saudi Arabia to carry out unprecedented airstrikes against what it described as weapons shipments supplied by the United Arab Emirates. The strikes marked a dramatic escalation between Riyadh and Abu Dhabi …

Military order doubles evacuated West Bank settlement, leaves Palestinians in enclaves
A newly signed military order doubles the footprint of Homesh in northern West Bank, creates Palestinian enclaves and advances settlement expansion pushed by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich as the prime minister conducts talks in Washington.

Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Just Played On Russia’s Doomsday Shortwave Radio Station
X users are reporting that a mysterious Russian shortwave radio signal, nicknamed “The Buzzer” and informally known as the “doomsday radio station,” that has been continuously broadcasting since the late 1970s, has just transmitted the classical piece Swan Lake by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. UVB-76 is transmitted on 4625 kHz and is occasionally interrupted by Russian voice messages, often containing names, numbers, or coded phrases. These voice messages are rare, irregular, and often nonsensical, making the transmission of Swan Lake highly abnormal. Fun fact, Swan Lake was repeatedly broadcast across Soviet state television during the August Coup in August 1991.

America Is Arguing About Free Speech… The World Is Putting People In Prison For It
As the freest nation in the world, America has long understood the value of free speech—not as an abstract ideal, but as a fundamental right. Does a country imprison or execute citizens for speech protected by the U.S. First Amendment? The purpose is not to deny America’s internal struggles, but to draw a clear line between nations that debate speech and those that punish it with prison or death.

Amid Economic Crisis, Mossad-Affiliated X Account Encourages Further Protests In Iran
A Farsi-language X account claiming to represent Israel’s Mossad encouraged protests in Iran on Monday and suggested that the Israeli spy agency has operatives involved in demonstrations on the ground. “Let’s come out to the streets together. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from afar and verbally. We are with you in the field as well,” the account, which Israeli media is treating as an official mouthpiece for the Mossad, said in Farsi.

Three killed by floods and landslides in Andalusia, Spain
At least three people have been killed by severe floods and landslides in Spain between December 28–29, 2025.

2025 Is Ending With A Whole Lot Of Bombing
This year is certainly ending with a bang.  In recent weeks, the U.S. has bombed targets in Venezuela, the Caribbean, the eastern Pacific, Nigeria and Somalia.  Meanwhile, the Saudis just bombed Yemen, the Ukrainians and the Russians continue to pummel each other, the Israelis are gearing up to hit Iran again, and the Chinese just launched missiles as they practiced for a blockade of Taiwan.  If you haven’t heard about all of these incidents yet, just keep reading, because you will get the details below.  We have come to expect that it is “normal” to see constant military action all over the globe, but the truth is that there is nothing “normal” about what we are witnessing at all.

A Ripoff Of Historic Proportions: The Amount Of Money Involved In The Minnesota Fraud Scandal Is Absolutely Staggering
I have been digging into the fraud scandal in Minnesota, and what I have learned has absolutely floored me.  It isn’t just millions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars that we are talking about in this case.  The fraudsters have literally stolen billions of taxpayer dollars, and they have been spending it on luxury vehicles, expensive homes and all sorts of other things.  This is something that has been going on for many years, and finally something is being done to stop it.

What Satan Intends For Evil, God Is Using To Draw The Jews Back Home
Absolute evil continues to be perpetrated against God’s chosen people. The anti-Semitism/genocide is so great now on a global scale that it hourly fills the headlines of news organizations around the world.

What Do The Top Search Trends Of 2025 Say About The Current State Of Our Society?
What do our Google searches tell us about ourselves? I think that many of you will be quite surprised by what I have to share in this article. “Google’s Year in Search” for 2025 has been released, and it is a doozy. The past 12 months have been so crazy, and the top search trends of 2025 certainly reflect that.

Florida Exposed: ‘70% of the Population Are Arabs’—Inside Tampa’s Mosque-School Pipeline and Taxpayer-Funded Expansion
Arabic-language recruitment videos reveal Tampa is being deliberately built into a mosque-school-market pipeline—subsidized by taxpayer funds and designed to establish a parallel Islamic infrastructure inside a red state.

30 Numbers From 2025 That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe
2025 has truly been a historic year. No matter which side of the fence that you are on, nobody can deny that we have witnessed seismic political changes over the last 12 months. Meanwhile, the AI revolution is transforming our lives in ways that we don’t even understand. But despite all of our advanced technology, we can’t stop the endless barrage of natural disasters that has been pummeling us in 2025, and hunger continues to spread all over the globe. Of course war has been a major theme from the very beginning of the year to the very end of the year. Humanity has been facing one major crisis after another, and people are steadily getting angrier and more frustrated.

AI Will Eat Itself; It’s Like Mad Cow Disease – Tech Insiders Not Concerned by Accelerating Development
As artificial intelligence accelerates into every corner of modern life, the dominant narrative remains one of inevitability. With smarter models and total automation, many feel catapulted toward a future reshaped by machines that outperform humans at almost everything. But increasingly, tech insiders are vocalizing alternative views: that the trajectory is neither healthy, sustainable, or inevitable. Dan Houser – co-founder of Rockstar games – recently compared the current boom to Mad Cow disease, saying it’s a system that’s feeding on itself and will eventually become fundamentally unstable. It’s a provocative analogy that opens a deeper question that may bring relief to some – what if the flaws emerging in AI are not bugs to be fixed, but are structural limitations that will prevent the technology from ever truly “taking over the world”?

UN’s 17 genocidal development goals are the driving force behind child sex trafficking
Child protection attorney Elizabeth Yore exposes the global trafficking networks that prey on migrant children and operate with institutional cover. She criticizes the United Nations and Vatican-backed policies that fuel trafficking while silencing pro-life voices…“I slowly began to understand the high-stakes game that the Vatican was playing on behalf of the UN. The real and bloodthirsty crisis of human trafficking served as a convenient stalking horse deployed to promote the godless agenda of the UN with the specious and insulting argument [that] if we eliminate our carbon footprint, we would end human trafficking,” she said.

Feds Launch Massive Investigation as Somali Bilking Explodes Over Daycare Laundering, Fraud a ‘Kindergartener’ Could Find
“Over the weekend, the Somali fraud story exploded on social media, with it now being confirmed that more than $9 billion has been stolen… that’s getting very close to the GDP of Somalia. Intrepid podcaster Nick Shirley posted a 42-minute video on Friday that documents how fake and corrupt daycare centers in Minnesota are getting millions in federal funds, which resulted in federal authorities launching a “massive” investigation into the businesses on Monday.“

What Child Is This? :: By Joe Hawkins

What Child is this, who, laid to rest,
On Mary’s lap is sleeping?
Whom angels greet with anthems sweet,
While shepherds watch are keeping?

The opening question is the question of the ages: Who is this Child? The world saw a fragile newborn, but heaven knew that the Ancient of Days had stepped into time. The Creator now rested in the arms of His creation. Angels filled the skies because prophecy was being fulfilled; shepherds hurried because hope had finally arrived.

In a time when truth is constantly questioned and the identity of Christ is distorted or dismissed, this carol draws us back to the heart of the gospel. This Child—resting in humility and wrapped in humanity—is the promised Messiah. The One who spoke galaxies into existence now sleeps beneath the stars He made.

He came quietly, but nothing about His arrival was ordinary. Heaven knew. Hell trembled. Creation held its breath. This Child was—and is—the Savior of the world.

Chorus

This, this is Christ, the King,
Whom shepherds guard and angels sing;
Haste, haste to bring Him laud,
The Babe, the Son of Mary!

The chorus moves from question to proclamation. The mystery becomes a declaration: This is Christ, the King. Heaven and earth testify in unison. Humble shepherds—representing the lowly and forgotten—stand alongside angels, the mighty host of heaven. Both are witnesses to the same truth: the Child in the manger is the Sovereign King.

This is not just poetic language; it is prophetic reality. The One cradled in Mary’s arms is the very One who will one day rule the nations with a rod of iron. The manger is the beginning of the mission that will culminate in a throne.

Why lies He in such mean estate,
Where ox and ass are feeding?
Good Christian, fear: for sinners here
The silent Word is pleading. [Chorus]

The scene is jarring: the King of Glory lying in a place meant for animals. The One who owns the cattle on a thousand hills chose a feeding trough for His first resting place. His humility was not an accident of circumstance but a deliberate act of divine condescension. He entered the world not in splendor, but in poverty, identifying with the lowly, the broken, the forgotten.

Here, the “silent Word” pleads—not with noise or spectacle, but through the quiet power of His presence. The infant in the manger is the same eternal Word who spoke creation into being. Now that Word cries out without speaking, declaring through His humility that He has come for sinners. His very posture in the manger becomes a message: He did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.

The world often misses Him because it expects royalty wrapped in gold, not God wrapped in swaddling cloth. But those who look with the eyes of faith can see the profound truth: the Savior has stepped into our brokenness to lift us out of it.

So bring Him incense, gold, and myrrh,
Come, peasant, king to own Him.
The King of kings salvation brings;
Let loving hearts enthrone Him. [Chorus]

The gifts of the magi—gold, frankincense, and myrrh—tell a story the world didn’t yet understand. Gold acknowledges His kingship, frankincense His divinity, and myrrh His coming sacrifice. From the very beginning, Jesus was recognized not merely as a gifted teacher but as the King of kings, the One worthy of worship from both peasant and prince.

The call to “own Him” is an invitation to surrender. No one approaches this Child from a distance; every heart must decide what to do with Him. Whether dressed in royal robes or in the garments of common labor, every person stands on equal ground before the manger. Christ came for all—yet only those who enthrone Him in their hearts truly know Him.

The final line is a declaration of His mission: “The King of kings salvation brings.” His crown at His first coming was not one of gold but of humility, yet salvation flowed from it. And when He returns, the world will see the fullness of His glory—the Child of Bethlehem revealed as the reigning Lord of all.

What Child is This – W. Chatterton Dix

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