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Saturday, January 17, 2026

The first US-brokered sale of Venezuelan crude oil under Donald Trump's new energy plan went to Vitol, a global oil trading firm whose senior US-based trader was a major donor to Trump's 2024 re-election campaign.

Vitol Full of Crooks


The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for


The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for


Friday, January 16, 2026

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
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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


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The US State Department is pausing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries, marking one of the most sweeping moves yet in Donald Trump's renewed immigration crackdown. USSECSTATE Marco Rubio already revoked more than 100,000 visas, including 8,000 student visas, of people who have had "encounters with law enforcement" since Donald Trump returned to office.

The diabolical Trumpf junta will freeze visa processing indefinitely for applicants from countries including Somalia, Russia, Afghanistan, Brazil, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Thailand, and Yemen. The US State Department did not immediately clarify if non-immigrant visas, such as for tourism and business, would be affected.

Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs good-for-nothing Mora Namdar, daughter of wealthy Iranian emigres and owner of a mini-chain of beauty salons in Texas, directed consular officers to refuse visa applications until screening and vetting procedures are reassessed.

The pause goes into effect on 21 January. Older or overweight applicants could be denied, along with those who had any past use of government cash assistance or institutionalization.

"The State Department will use its long-standing authority to deem ineligible potential immigrants who would become a public charge on the US and exploit the generosity of the American people," State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott bleated.


The picture-perfect definition of an Empty Suit,' the inter-galactically vapid and strictly unimaginative Marco Rubio was vetted for his position as USSECSTATE based on his loyalty to Israel by none other than mega-oligarch Larry Ellison:
Marco Rubio Loyalty to Israel More Important Than to the American Taxpayer

Besides dismantling USAID in 2025, in 2015 as a Republican Senator from Florida, Marco Rubella undermined the ACA ("Obamacare") by subtly adding corrosive riders to the bill. Years from now this hologram will enjoy a magnificent federal pension combining all of his years as a good-for-no-one US Senator and USSECSTATE. The thought of that is enough to make one retch.

"Good Morning. My name is General Dan Caine. I am the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) and the highest-ranking military officer in the United States of America. As you can see from my military bio below, I have spent decades attending military colleges, universities, and training programs, was a combat pilot and a senior advisor at CIA."


"As America's top military officer, I earn $16,000 per month, which is approximately $192,000 and I live in free military housing near the Pentagon. I work long hours and like all of America's warriors, do not receive overtime pay."

"In today's America, a xenophobic ICE neanderthal with only a high school diploma can roam the streets of our country with federal credentials and a firearm, terrorize our population, and earn more salary in a year than the Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff. "

Link: CJCS Bio

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?


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.

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