President Donald Trump made an early start to the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend by flying to Florida to name a road after himself after taking part in "The Great, Historic Investment in Rural Health Roundtable." Immediately after the East Room discussion, if he was able to stay awake for it, the self-declared President of Venezuela rushed to Palm Beach FL for a street-naming ceremony organized solely to flatter his ego.
Link: POTUS in a Nutshell
Over the past 24 hours, the IDF killed 14 and wounded another 18 human beings in the Gaza Strip, amongst them was a 16-year-old girl and Muhammad al-Hawli, a senior resistance leader who had called on the US to hold Israel to account for the 1,193 times it broke the 10 October 2025 "ceasefire."
Link: Makes No Difference to Palestinians Whoever is POTUS
During an interview with Reuters, when President Trump was told that a poll found tepid support among Americans for taking control of Greenland, Trump called the poll "fake." The president also expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the US House of Representatives or the Senate in this year's midterm elections. "It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms," Trump whined. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that "when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election." read more
The FDA website reports there are at least 13 recalls, market withdrawals, and safety alerts for food or drugs in the very first two weeks of the new year, averaging about one a day during the Trump administration.
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A global realignment in higher education is underway, according to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2026. While the University of Oxford holds the top position for the 10th consecutive year, the data reveal a shifting balance of academic power: US institutions are slipping, even as leading universities across Asia continue to climb.
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Since 7 Oct 2023, the death toll from Israel's ferocious Czarist-like pogrom against the Palestinians in Gaza has risen to 71,455, with 171,347 wounded or maimed; the majority of them women and children. The source is al-Jazeera.com citing Palestinian health authorities.
Since the so-called "ceasefire" on 10 Oct 2025, the IDF killed 463 and wounded 1,269 Palestinians. A total of 712 bodies have been recovered to date.
Last year by pen and paper (and AI) I calculated that the IDF would kill approximately 72,000 Muslims in Gaza by the end of 2025, and I was pretty close. The New York Times had previously reported that the IDF created both a legion of amputees and an army of orphans in the Gaza Strip, an area the size of US city Philadelphia, PA.
Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned that over 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza Strip are still projected to suffer acute malnutrition through April 2026 (Source: www.who.int)
An international arrest warrant issued by the ICC for crimes against humanity remains active for Benjamin Netanyahu. In addition, the Istanbul Public Prosecutor in Turkiye issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and 32 other Israelis accused of committing war crimes. An indictment is merely an allegation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law or at an international tribunal at the Hague.
IDF physician Dr Sabo Amos, the notorious Josef Mengele of the IDF, cheerfully likened killing Palestinians to "exterminating cockroaches." Nice guy, huh?
Instead of advising Americans to eat like Oliver Twist, the Trumpf junta should re-hire inspectors and regulators DOGE fired. The US is up to one food recall a day: drudge.com
And ICE is using hi-tech Israeli spyware and sophisticated Palantir technologies: www.404media.co
Too bad previous Republican and Democratic administrations did nothing to dismantle DHS and abolish ICE since their post-9/11 creation as part of the "GWOT." Now we have a runaway train killing innocent people, tracking residents without warrants, terrorizing communities, and enriching the oligarchs with our hardworking taxpayer dollars.
How lucky the people of other countries are to have competent leaders, kind populations, and decent allies, unlike us in America fettered with a horrible "ally" in the Middle East, corrupt leaders, and baskets of deplorables as our fellow citizens: themoderatevoice.com
Look at the bottom left of www.centcom.mil's webpage.
There are press releases in Russian: www.centcom.mil
In my 27 years of service in the US Army and beyond, I have never seen anything like that until Dummkopf Trumpf seized power on 20 Jan 2025.
NBC News has re-iterated a November 2025 food recall for 20 states involving the New Jersey-based Ambriola Company whose cheese products are most probably tainted with listeria.
Listeria monocytogenes can cause serious and sometimes deadly infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.
Source: Grated Cheese Recall
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Dummkopf Trumpf's gilded luxury golf club in Bedminster NJ was fined for 18 unsanitary conditions: Trumpf Bedminster Golf Club a Dump
Many Americans are forgoing health insurance this year because ACA subsidies have expired and the premiums are prohibitively high. Every resident of America that falls sick to food poisoning, visits an emergency room, is wounded by a firearm, is hospitalized because of a disease transmitted by an unvaccinated person, driven by ambulance to a hospital for a broken arm or leg, or develops cancer from being exposed to chemicals, pesticides, or radiation, is pure profit to be made in the insidious US privatized health care system which bankrupts roughly 530,000 people in the country every year.
So, US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) cares about the Muslim demonstrators getting killed in Iran, but is quiet as a church mouse about the Muslims getting killed daily in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli Death Forces (IDF), an organization that receives hardworking American taxpayer dollars every year.
As of 16 Jan 2026, the enormous charnel house in Gaza now holds 71,455 corpses.