EU approves €6.1bn for Ukraine arms, including Patriots 
The Commission on Friday approved Ukraine’s request for €6.1bn to buy air and missile defence systems and drone equipment, granting five exemptions from its “Buy European” requirement, notably to purchase US-made Patriot missiles. The package also includes funding for ammunition and electronic warfare equipment.

Middle East live: Houthis say hit Saudi base after renewed fighting with Yemeni forces
Yemeni Houthi rebels claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on a military base in southern Saudi Arabia as renewed fighting with Yemen’s government forces forced growing numbers of civilians to flee. Fighting in western Yemen over the past few weeks has left hundreds dead and displaced tens of thousands of people.

Planned Strait of Hormuz talks postponed as Iran seeks Gulf thaw
Iran aims to restore relations with Gulf states in the wake of the Middle East war, but a planned meeting on the future of the blocked Strait of Hormuz has been postponed. This was announced by Oman, where the meeting was scheduled to take place on Monday.

Reform UK receives nearly $100 million in two days from two major donors
Nigel Farage’s far-right party Reform UK has received two huge donations in two days, totaling nearly one billion kronor. Thailand-based cryptocurrency investor Christopher Harborne announced a donation of over $50 million on Saturday, BBC reports. The day before, entrepreneur Ben Delo had pledged the same amount, which is said to have sparked Harborne’s competitive instincts.

Russian drone hits train in Ukraine, Carl Bildt says his was minutes behind
A passenger train en route to Warsaw was hit by a Russian drone in Ukraine. Carl Bildt says he was traveling on a train that was just minutes behind the one that was attacked. The train that was hit by a drone was travelling from Kyiv with more than 200 passengers on board when it was struck two kilometres from the border. Another drone was shot down 800 metres from the Polish border, Prime Minister Donald Tusk says. No one was reportedly injured in the attack.

Killed to Order: Inside China’s forced organ harvesting industry
China’s forced organ harvesting industry is one of the most disturbing and controversial human-rights issues of our time.

Sam Altman Now Trying to Gain Control of Electric Grid
Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety. Now, it seems Altman is riding the wave of AI fearmongering to gin up some new business partners: the electric utility executives whose companies make up the US power grid. As first reported by Politico, the CEO of the company behind ChatGPT held a series of clandestine meetings with leaders from top electric utility companies including Duke Energy, Exelon, Southern Co, and NextEra Energy, starting in July.

Trump Trade War, 51st-State Talk Push Canada Toward EU Associate Membership
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is exploring an unprecedented partnership with the European Union (EU), looking to reduce his country’s heavy economic reliance on the United States amid an escalating trade war and political friction with President Donald Trump.

Trump hails Witkoff, Kushner for Gaza ceasefire deal: ‘Nobody could have done this job’
President Donald Trump praised Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Sunday for their roles in the Gaza ceasefire framework. “Look at Gaza as an example,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One.
Hamas had also agreed to disarm under a phased roadmap.

Amodei and Altman call for slowing AI model development
Leaders of the world’s biggest artificial intelligence platforms said it’s time to slow the development pace of their most advanced — and most lucrative — models, citing escalating risks of the technology. Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei issued a lengthy blog post Saturday saying his company would implement new safety steps such as third-party evaluators while calling on the industry to support a broader downshift. OpenAI chief Sam Altman quickly pledged to adopt Amodei’s suggestion of “independent evaluators with employee-like access,” while Elon Musk, who runs xAI Corp., wrote, “Dario is right.”

The Extremism – And Irrelevancy – Of The ‘Democratic Socialists’
the DSA is an extremist organization. It is not “democratic socialist” in the fashion of the British Labour Party or the German Social Democrats. When pundits label the DSA as communist, they are not far off the mark. The second point is that the legacy media have covered this tiny group to a grossly disproportionate extent, while leaving far more significant conservative and libertarian organizations in the shadows

“Something’s Going To Happen”: DHS Chief Says Lefty Ilhan Omar “Married Her Brother”, Floats Deportation
Mullin said that Omar married her brother as part of an immigration-fraud scheme and raised the prospect of deportation. Ilhan Omar calls Americans dumb idiots.

New Report Exposes Climate Litigants’ Campaign To Influence The Judiciary
Thousands of judges across the nation have sat through climate-science training and received literature from trusted federal bodies and scientific institutes. Those judges had every right to expect that the information they received was neutral, objective, settled science. They were mistaken.

The Islamist regime of Iran is wounded — here is how to finish it
Here is what might be done to complete the elimination of this brutal, predatory regime.

Leiter: London looks like Baghdad, Judea and Samaria will always be Israel
Ambassador Yechiel Leiter rejects claims that Jews are occupiers in Judea and Samaria, stressing the region’s historic, religious and strategic importance. “There’s a lot of domestic politics involved in the British government’s approach,” Leiter said. “I think that the British government is more concerned about what’s happening in London, where parts of London look like Baghdad, than they are about what’s happening in Judea and Samaria.”

Katz: Whoever approaches strategic Lebanon ridge ‘will be destroyed’
Israel’s defense establishment is intensifying its forces’ hold in southern Lebanon following the elimination of Hezbollah terrorists and the destruction of terror tunnels under the Ali al-Taher Ridge. The IDF is currently deployed to enforce its control over the ridge to prevent any element from attempting to renew military presence. Defense Minister Israel Katz discussed the deployment in the area on Sunday, saying: “The Ali al-Taher Ridge is part of the Yellow Line and Israel’s security zone in Lebanon. The IDF is deployed to hold the ridge and prevent an attempt by Hezbollah or anyone else from returning to and reestablishing it. Whoever approaches the ridge will be destroyed.”

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu speaks about the explosions in Lebanon and the great shofar
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, … said that despite the immense difficulties and heavy price paid, the past year has been filled with events that he sees as expressions of miracles and an ongoing process of redemption. “I think we are entering a new year after an extremely difficult and challenging one, but also one filled with incredible miracles of God’s love,” Rabbi Eliyahu said.

In New Year’s greeting, Netanyahu thanks Trump for ‘historic progress’ in curbing Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday extended a Shana Tova—a happy Jewish New Year—to U.S. President Donald Trump, his family and the American people. “Over the past year, the United States and Israel have achieved historic progress together. Iran and its evil axis are weaker than ever, while the U.S.-Israel alliance is stronger than ever,” Netanyahu wrote on X.

Iran seeks Russia’s jet-powered upgrade of its Shahed drones for war with Israel, US
Western security officials tell Financial Times Tehran sought advanced Russian Geran drones, including jet-powered models capable of flying up to 600 km/h, after Moscow transformed the Iranian Shahed design into a faster and harder-to-intercept weapon

Saudi Arabia Has Few Options As It Faces Mounting Threats From Iran And Its Allies
A lightning advance by Houthi rebels threatens a crucial Red Sea shipping route. Drone attacks blamed on Iraqi militias have forced the closure of a major pipeline, and Iran is still disrupting the Strait of Hormuz. It’s a nightmare scenario for Saudi Arabia, and it has sent jitters through global markets.

A Swarm of More Than 80 Earthquakes Just Hit Southern California as The Entire Pacific Ring of Fire Becomes Much More Active
In the US, the seemingly endless shaking we’ve witnessed in California this year is alarming. In the past 7 days – 836 earthquakes in California and Nevada. Southern California has been particularly active recently. From Friday night to Saturday morning, a swarm of “more than 80 quakes” shook the region…

Flock cameras are ‘like having a cop on every block,’ and Americans should fear ‘5-mile rule,’ ex-police officer says
FLOCK Safety cameras may offer the same security as beat cops on every corner, but the same protection they provide can also be used as a weapon. “I could time out your habits; we’re all creatures of habit. Most don’t leave a five-mile radius from our home.” In such a scenario, this info could be used to “rob your house” while you’re gone…

Costco Is Rationing Motor Oil, The Middle East Is in Chaos, And Western Leaders Riding a Train in Ukraine Just Narrowly Avoided a Russian Drone Strike
Chaos in the Middle East and rapidly escalating war in Ukraine are driving up oil prices. As a result, gasoline prices in the US have never been so high this late in the year, and diesel prices keep surging deeper into record territory. Global supplies have gotten tight, so shortages were inevitable. I was shocked to learn Costco is now rationing motor oil.

New attacks in Hormuz and Saudi test nerves as war’s spread worsens oil disruption
New strikes on Saudi Arabia and on ships in the Gulf tested nerves in the Middle East on Sunday, after an attack on a Saudi oil pipeline and an advance ​by Yemen’s Houthis threatened to worsen the wartime disruption to global energy supplies.

China reportedly helped Iran in deadly attack on US forces
China reportedly assisted Iran with satellite imagery ahead of a deadly air base attack in Jordan. Retired Navy Capt. Brent Sadler discusses the national security fallout as President Trump prepares to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The July strike tragically killed three U.S. service members.

Fighting in Yemen intensifies, and Houthis launch more attacks on Saudi Arabia
Houthis fired into neighboring Saudi Arabia, which supports Yemen’s gov’t. Last week, Houthis captured the port city of Mokha and an island on Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a crucial shipping alternative to Strait of Hormuz. The escalation adds pressure on global oil supplies and prices, and that could give Iran leverage in its war with the United States.

Matt Walsh: “Feminism … Is the Most Destructive Movement in Human History”
“Great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment,” wrote infamous communism co-founder Marx in 1868. Interestingly, it was a convention in 1848, the same exact year Marx’s Communist Manifesto was published, that’s often cited as “first-wave” American feminism’s birth. The ideology has been around a long time – too long.

The Human Rights Industry Has a Favorite Kind of Victim
It’s the victim whose suffering can be attached to a designated “villain,” preferably one Western activists already hate. That’s why Palestinian victims, when Israel is cast as perpetrator, cause outrage, while Sudan victims of genocide, Afghan women under the Taliban, Iranian protesters murdered by their own regime, or persecuted Christians in Nigeria largely don’t.

Netanyahu reportedly offers Israeli military support for regional campaign against Houthis in Yemen 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly offered Israeli military participation in a broader regional effort to counter the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen, the Lebanese news outlet Al-Akhbar reported Friday, citing unnamed U.S. sources. The report comes after the Houthis seized the Yemeni port city of al-Mokha earlier this week, near the strategically important Strait of Bab al-Mandab on the Red Sea. Much of the world’s commercial shipping passes through the strait. The Houthis, who openly call for Israel’s destruction, began attacking Israel and international commercial shipping shortly after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack on southern Israel. The Israeli government has neither confirmed nor denied the report of potential Israeli military involvement.

BRICS nations call for ‘maximum restraint’ in Middle East 
Members of the 11-nation BRICS group including China, Russia, Iran and India called for calm in the Middle East, in a joint statement issued Saturday at a summit in New Delhi. “We express deep concern over the continued escalation of tensions in Middle East/West Asia and, recalling our respective national positions, call for exercising maximum restraint, as well as avoiding actions that could further aggravate the situation,” said the statement.

Pompeo: We Cannot Afford To Flinch From Our Responsibility As Many Call ‘Evil Good And Good Evil’
Twenty-five years ago, nearly 3,000 innocents were murdered in the deadliest single terrorist attack in human history. We cannot afford to flinch from our responsibility to face and defeat the evils that threaten our way of life, or to indulge in moral equivalence: Not in 2001, and not today. Scripture tells us, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” Let us never forget that lesson, and let us remain steadfast in fighting for what is right and just in the face of those who seek to tear our country down.

Trump says Iran ‘probably’ responsible for attack on Saudi East-West pipeline
Pakistan, a key mediator between the U.S. and Iran during Operation Epic Fury, said Saturday that it “strongly condemns” the drone attacks that targeted the Saudi Arabia East-West oil pipeline. The country’s foreign ministry issued a statement saying the “reprehensible drone attacks” caused damage to the pipeline and “injuries to civilians.” “Pakistan has been and will continue to make earnest efforts for achieving lasting peace and stability in the region,” it added. Iraq closes border crossings with Iran following Saudi pipeline attack

“Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda”: Hillary Clinton Gives Flippant Answer When Pressed On Patriot Act Support
Hillary Clinton attempted to wave off criticism of her post-9/11 votes this week, telling a Columbia University audience that Monday-morning quarterbacking carries its own bias and that relitigating the Patriot Act does little good. “But it’s got as much bias as anything else. And so looking back and saying shoulda, coulda, woulda doesn’t really help us,” the failed presidential candidate added. That authorization became the legal blank check for roughly two decades of American military adventurism spanning multiple wars in the Middle East and multiple administrations, power lawmakers in both parties have since tried, and failed, to claw back.

‘I Have To Sit With That’: Gayle King’s Brain Divides By Zero After Holdout Clancy Juror Revealed As Black Man
After the media spent the last two weeks casting pent up handmaiden feminist energy at the ‘male holdout’ juror who caused a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy case, “CBS Mornings” anchor Gayle King had a visible record scratch after one of the karen jurors revealed that the holdout was a black man that the white ladies virtually lynched in the town square of national dialogue for not letting Clancy off the hook for murdering her children. Leftists have accidentally sided with 11 white bullies against a black man who stood up to them. Just an absolutely amazing twist. You couldn’t script it any better,”

“Riyadh In Difficult Position”: Saudis Shutter Critical East-West Pipeline After Drone Attacks
Saudi Arabia temporarily shut its 7 million-barrel-a-day East-West pipeline following multiple drone attacks, exposing a massive vulnerability in a critical export route used to bypass the Strait of Hormuz during more than six months of US-Iran conflict.

UK Government Reserves Two-Thirds Of Elite Jobs By Race; Leaked Doc Exposes
Sixty-six per cent of the slots are ringfenced for staff who are ethnic minority, disabled, or from a lower socio-economic background. Everyone else – including the white working-class kids the same government claims to champion – can take whatever is left. They’ve essentially built a public-sector caste system. A leaked document reveals 66% of places are ringfenced for ethnic minority, disabled and lower socioeconomic background staff.

Lefty Seattle-Area Corporate Giants Begin Revolt Against Progressive City Hall
Seattle-area corporate giants, including Microsoft, Starbucks, Costco, and Alaska Airlines, are pressuring City Hall for a new public safety plan amid concerns about violent crime and ongoing disorder after years of failed progressive experiments have transformed parts of the metro area into a hellhole.
The coalition includes Microsoft President Brad Smith, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, Costco CEO Ron Vachris and executives from Nordstrom, Alaska Air Group and other major employers, according to local outlet Komo News. Their letter, sent to City Hall on Thursday, brings coordinated pressure from the business community to change how City Hall governs. Literal madness on the streets of Seattle Monday afternoon. A woman was totally naked on the sidewalk across the street from Seattle City Hall.
I asked if she needed help. Instead, she wanted my muffins. THIS IS INSANE!!!!

Ted Cruz and RFK Jr. declare war on Islamism at GOP convention 
There was plenty of ‘red meat’ served up at the Republican National Committee’s first-ever midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, this week. But two speeches stood out for going directly at an issue many politicians prefer to discuss in vague, carefully worded language. U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. didn’t hold back and they surely didn’t sanitize it. They called out Islamism – the political ideology that seeks to impose Islamic rule over government and society, often at the expense of religious freedom, individual rights and Western democratic values. Their bluntness was a sight to behold. Cruz delivered a sharp warning, arguing that the Democratic Party is being overtaken by what he described as a coalition between communists and Islamists.

Haifa Port poised to become key link in India-Middle East-Europe trade corridor 
Israel’s Haifa Port could eventually become a key link in the planned India–Middle East–Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC), a proposed trade route connecting India with Europe through the Middle East and Israel. The large-scale project envisions a combination of maritime shipping and overland rail transportation. Under the proposed route, goods from Asia would be shipped by sea from India to Gulf states before being transported by rail through Saudi Arabia and Jordan to Haifa. From there, the goods would be shipped by sea to European markets.

People fleeing Iran-backed rebels’ advance in Yemen describe a ‘hysterical panic’
It was a heart-pounding escape. As Houthi rebels backed by Iran swept south along Yemen’s Red Sea coast this week, some residents had little time to flee. “We set out in hysterical panic on a motorcycle, not knowing where we were heading,” Alaa Ali Salem said. “The roads suddenly became extremely congested, and while I was driving, the motorcycle overturned. My wife, my children and I were all injured.” His family and thousands of others, in numbers leaping by the day, are now displaced as the Arab world’s poorest country faces a potential return to a devastating civil war.

Israel holds the high ground, Iranian axis severely weakened
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu … declared that Israel now exercises control from the peak of Hermon to the Yarmouk River and westward toward the Mediterranean, an operational dominance the country had never previously held. “We will not allow any terror army to establish itself on our border,”

Trump links 9/11 war on terror to ongoing war against Iran
US President Donald Trump marked the 25th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks at the Pentagon on Friday, vowing that the United States would never forget the victims and drawing a direct connection between the war on terror launched after the attacks and the ongoing conflict with Iran. “Today we renew the sacred oath that we first swore in their names a quarter of a century ago. We will never, ever forget. That’s why we fight today,” Trump said during the ceremony, where he was joined by First Lady Melania Trump. “We don’t have a choice. There can only be victory. We fight hard. We fight to win,” he added.

1998 CIA memo warned Clinton of Bin Laden plan to hijack commercial airliner
The CIA has declassified more than 100 pages of presidential intelligence briefings from the years preceding the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, including a 1998 memo warning President Bill Clinton about a potential Al-Qaeda attack involving the hijacking of a commercial airliner. The agency described Friday’s release of 71 presidential briefs as its largest disclosure in 25 years of intelligence concerning Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden and the events that preceded the attacks.

History at the UN: Shofar blown in General Assembly Hall
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon and a Chabad rabbi sound the shofar in the UN General Assembly Hall for the first time in Rosh Hashanah greeting. In a Rosh Hashanah greeting video filmed by Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danonת together with Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Neuman, Chabad’s emissary to the diplomatic community, the sound of the shofar was heard for the first time in the UN General Assembly Hall.

10,500 Palestinians Left Gaza Over Past Year, New Data Show, Amid Israeli Ministers’ Renewed Voluntary Emigration Push
About 10,500 Palestinians have left the Gaza Strip over the past year while roughly 6,000 have returned, new figures show, challenging accusations that Israel is seeking to forcibly remove Gaza’s population. The vast majority of those departures were connected to medical evacuations, according to Israeli border crossing data

CHILLING WARNING: HaRav Shternbuch Weeps: “I Am Not Allowed To Speak… The Situation Is Bitter, Bitter, Bitter
HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch broke down in intense tears following Selichos after midnight, delivering an emotional and deeply troubling message ahead of Rosh Hashanah. “Let us return to Hashem, because the time is difficult and our troubles have multiplied, and we do not know what will be,” HaRav Shternbuch cried. “Father, Father, Father! Return to us! How much longer will we have to suffer? You told us that we are Your children, and a father does not abandon his children. Please, do not abandon us!” His voice filled with emotion as he then issued a particularly ominous warning. ….

Over a dozen earthquakes rattle Pacific Ring of Fire over last 24 hours in latest burst of seismic activity
In the latest burst of seismic activity, more than a dozen earthquakes of magnitude 4.0 or higher have rattled the Pacific Ring of Fire. 3 earthquakes rattled cities across 8 countries between Wednesday and Thursday, with some minor seismic activity happening in the very center of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Indonesia Earthquake Today: Powerful 6.6 Quake Strikes Off Java
A 6.6 deep quake struck Indonesia’s Java region. There were no immediate reports of casualties or significant damage. This comes a month after a much more destructive tremor struck Indonesia, killing at least 100 people and damaging tens of thousands of homes.

‘Thousands of Lives Have Been Saved’: Christians Celebrate After British MPs Narrowly Defeat Dangerous Assisted Suicide Bill
British MPs yesterday rejected the resurrected assisted suicide bill, voting to stop the bill from passing through Parliament by 286 votes to 270. The vote effectively means that the parliamentary push for assisted suicide is over for this Parliament, as it is unlikely that MPs will give any further time to debate the contentious topic.

Penalize terrorists, not Judea and Samaria: Protesters rally at Downing Street against UK sanctions
Demonstrators gathered outside 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday to protest British sanctions targeting Israeli individuals and organizations connected to Judea and Samaria, accusing the government of penalizing Israel rather than confronting terrorism.

Anthropic reveals Yemenis vibe coding ballistic-missile guidance; Iran using AI to target US Navy
A new report from Anthropic reveals how Yemeni terrorists, Iran and other actors have attempted to use the company’s artificial intelligence tools to develop weapons of mass destruction and to carry out attacks against the United States.

‘This Is the Most Dangerous Interview I Have Ever Done’: Dr. James Thorp on the Fauci Diary and the Missing Births
They knew in January 2021 that the shots were hitting pregnancy — then they threatened 62,000 obstetricians, paid hospitals $!80 billion to stay silent, told pregnant women it was safe, and watched live births collapse.

BRICS, Oman talks reveal how Gulf states are preparing for Iran’s next phase – analysis
The Iran conflict is entering a new phase amid key meetings in India and Oman. These meetings show how countries in the Gulf are looking to what may come next, even as Saudi Arabia faces pressure from Iranian-backed groups in Iraq and Yemen. Oman is also hoping to host Gulf states and Iran at a meeting on Monday.

Trump said to reject Saudi request for strikes on Houthis, as they complete Bab el-Mandeb takeover
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly called President Trump twice Thursday and urged him to launch strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Trump rejected the request, and US officials said the administration does not intend to take direct military action against the Houthis at this time.