Alex Soros Tweets Out Bullet Hole and 47 — A Direct Violent Threat to Donald Trump!

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They want him gone – no matter the cost.

President Trump is up in the polls, and the Republican base is coalescing around him. DeSantis, his most formidable primary challenger, dropped from the race and endorsed President Trump on Sunday.

The globalist elites are in a panic. Trump is the greatest threat to their power over humanity in the civilized world. Something must be done.

Alex Soros tweeted out an obvious threat against President Trump on Sunday evening.

Alex Soros is currently facing scrutiny due to his recent tweet sharing a post from the far-left The Atlantic that features a bullet hole and a sum of $47. Continue…

Slovakia’s PM Fico: Ukraine Will Have To Accept Territorial Losses in Peace Negotiations

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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico continues to make headlines with his seemingly uncompromising stance on Ukraine, saying many forbidden truths, including the most taboo one: Kiev will have to cede territory for peace. Probably a lot.

Fico said the only way to end Russia’s war against Ukraine is for Kyiv to recognize the territorial losses it withstood, something Politico calls ‘give up some of its territory to the invaders’.

The Slovak leader also restated his opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine.

Politico reported: Continue…

Amid Waning US Support, Ukraine Seeks 'Game Changer'

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Forces from Russia and Ukraine are fighting, bleeding, and dying in the trenches of Europe’s frozen east.

After so much gore, however, the end of this conflict still seems distant, and none in power appear confident that it'll go their way.

A wild card in all this is the United States and the question of whether the world’s greatest military power can or will continue to provide direct security assistance to Ukraine.

The Biden administration, which pledged only months ago to support Ukraine for as long as it takes, is on the back foot, and money for a war on the other side of the world has run out.

Russia is waiting and eager for the opportunity to seize what it has been denied—at least, that’s what White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.

“There’s significant risks to the Ukrainian armed forces if foreign aid and assistance dries up and we’re not able to continue to support them in their fight,” Mr. Kirby told The Epoch Times in December 2023.

“Ukraine is under significant threat right now from Russia, particularly from the air and drone and missile strikes on their energy infrastructure. And we know that the Russians intend to go back on the offense, particularly in the east.” Continue…

Canada Dominates Global Uranium Production

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Uranium production in Cigar Lake, Canada is the highest-grade in the world.

Since 2014, the site has mined 105 million pounds of the radioactive metal, which is naturally occurring on Earth.

It is the largest uranium mine on the planet.

For context, an egg-sized amount of uranium fuel can generate as much electric power as 88 tonnes of coal.

Given its vast uranium deposits, Canada has produced the most uranium worldwide since 1945.

This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Marcus Lu shows cumulative uranium production by country in modern history, with data from the World Nuclear Association.

The Top Uranium-Producing Countries

Since 1945, a total of 3.5 million tonnes of uranium has been produced globally.

Together, Canada and the U.S. account for over 29% of global production, mining 932,000 tonnes over the last several decades.

*Until 1991, USSR comprised the uranium production of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and other former Soviet Union republics.

During the Cold War, the USSR mined over 377,000 tonnes of uranium for a variety of purposes including nuclear reactors and naval fuel.

Due to demand from nuclear reactors, uranium production sharply increased from the 1960s to the 1980s. With this came the construction of the earliest generation of nuclear plants. Today, about 436 nuclear reactors are in operation.

Since the war in Ukraine, uranium has drawn increased attention given its role in nuclear weapons. Ukraine had 15 nuclear reactors depending on uranium from Russia, but the country rapidly signed a deal with Canada due to their exposure to the crisis.

Similar to Ukraine, nuclear reactors in Finland were at risk since their Russian-made reactors relied on the know-how of Russian firms.

While uranium is used for defense purposes, it also plays a key role in electricity generation thanks to its low carbon footprint. In the U.S., about 19% of electricity is powered from nuclear plants, and around 10% of global electricity is from nuclear power sources.

Boris Johnson Says Davos Elite "Trembling Violently" At Return Of Trump

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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the Davos elite are “trembling violently” at the very real prospect of Donald Trump winning the presidency again.

Johnson made the comments in an exclusive article for the Daily Mail.

“In the cocktail parties of Davos, I am told, the global wokerati have been trembling so violently that you could hear the ice tinkling in their negronis,” wrote the ex-PM.

After his landslide win in Iowa earlier this week, Trump is expected to enjoy a repeat performance in New Hampshire on Tuesday despite the avalanche of challenges he has faced.

“In the senior common rooms of our ­universities, in the synod of the Church of England, in the Orwellian corridors of the BBC and among much of the UK establishment there has been a caterwauling orgy of nose-holding abhorrence,” thundered Johnson.

Boris pointed out that the more insane the attacks on Trump become, the more he seems to thrive.

“The more ­frenzied the effort to cancel him, the stronger he becomes. The more bitterly his enemies wage lawfare against him, the more unstoppable he seems to be,” he wrote.

The prospect of Trump returning to the Oval Office had caused a collective “shriek” from the “Western liberal intelligentsia” and manifested a “sheer, gibbering funk,” according to Johnson.

As we previously highlighted, prominent leftists are once again hysterically whining about the rise “rise of fascism” in response to Trump’s success in shades of rhetoric that preceded his 2016 victory.

Trump has yet to announce who his running mate will be, but former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s chances of being his VP pick appear to be gaining momentum.

The House Panel Giving Washington A Reality-Check On China

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Through the back door of a New York City building, some of the most potent American business leaders were smuggled in for a tabletop exercise simulating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.

The secrecy made it look like they were “in a witness protection program because they were so concerned about retaliation from the CCP [Chinese Communist Party],” said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who hosted the exercise in September 2023.

“If this retaliation is how the CCP will treat business partners in peacetime, think about how it would act in war—and the ramifications to our economy, especially our critical supply chains, including pharmaceuticals and semiconductors, in a Taiwan invasion scenario,” Mr. Gallagher told The Epoch Times.

The idea of the tabletop simulation stemmed from his exchanges with financial executives.

One told him there is “zero” chance that the CCP will invade Taiwan. Another said the United States will never sanction China, even if it invaded the self-governed island.

“It’s clear that, in many cases, Washington and Wall Street are living in two different worlds. One is the real world, the other a fantasy land,” said Mr. Gallagher.

The New York City simulation didn’t focus on military conflicts but on areas of economic warfare such as shipping routes, supply chains, and money transfers.

“We saw that if China were to invade Taiwan, the losses across our financial system would dwarf the write-downs taken at the outset of the Russia–Ukraine war. The entire U.S. economy and banking system would be imperiled,” Mr. Gallagher said. Continue…

These Are The 25 Best Countries For Retirement

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In 1881, Otto von Bismarck proposed a radical idea for retirement: people above the age of 70 would be given a state pension, encouraging them to stop working.

This model has since been adopted en masse and most countries now have a retirement age, after which workers can claim benefits paid through years of their work.

However, modern-day retirement is much more than just finances. Wealth management company Natixis analyzed 44 nations on four main categories affecting the ability for their residents to retire well in the 2023 Global Retirement Index. Each category has subindices, from which they averaged scores out of 100 to create this ranking.

The categories are:

Health: Per capita spend on healthcare, life expectancy, and non-insured health spend.

Quality of Life: Happiness levels, water and sanitation, air quality, environment, and biodiversity.

Material Well-being: Per capita income, income equality, and employment levels.

Retirement Finances: Government debt, old-age dependency, interest rates, inflation, governance, taxes, and bank non-performing loans.

ℹ️ This index quantifies general retirement welfare in a country and does not account for countries which are retirement destinations—usually because of lower costs of living or better weather. Continue…

Russia Suspends LNG Exports At Huge Baltic Sea Terminal After Ukraine Drone Attack

Russian gas giant Novatek said it had been forced to suspend some operations at its huge Baltic Sea fuel export terminal on Sunday due to a fire started by what Ukrainian media said was a drone attack, Reuters reported.

The giant Ust-Luga complex, located on the Gulf of Finland about 170 km (110 miles) west of St. Petersburg, is used to ship oil and gas products to international markets. It processes stable gas condensate - a type of light oil - into light and heavy naphtha, kerosene and diesel to be shipped by sea.

According to Reuters, it was not clear how long the disruption would last, how many tankers would have to idle outside the port, and what the knock-on effect would be on international energy markets.

The Interfax-Ukraine news agency said the fire was the result of a special operation carried out by Ukraine's security services. Continue…

EU Mulls $21 Billion Military Aid to Ukraine Bypassing Hungary's Veto – Report

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced last month that Budapest had vetoed 50 billion euros in the EU macro-financial aid for Ukraine.

The European External Action Service (EEAS) is developing a new plan to provide military assistance to Ukraine that will allow EU members to override Hungary's veto of the bloc's aid to Kiev, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Under the plan, a draft of which was seen by the newspaper, EU members will provide Ukraine with more than 20 billion euros ($21.8 billion) in military aid over the next four years.

The EEAS, for its part, is proposing the creation of a special military fund for Ukraine, which would include some 6.5 billion euros ($7 billion) from the assets of the extra-budgetary European Peace Facility (EPF) and provide up to 5 billion euros ($5.4 billion) per year from 2024 to 2027. Continue…

Elizabeth May says she is going on a hunger strike for a ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war

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Leader of the Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May is participating in the #hungerstrikeforgaza campaign, which calls for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and for an arms embargo against the Israeli government.

In a short post on X, May retweeted a video promoting the hunger strike with the caption “I am hunger striking for Gaza.” Continue…

WEF speaker says ‘a lot of jobs will disappear’ due to ‘just transition’

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Trade Union Official Veronica Nilsson told WEF members the 'just transition' will be 'very, very difficult' because 'a lot of jobs will disappear' with no guarantee they will be replaced promptly or with equivalent pay. 'Where will these new jobs be created, and will we have enough jobs?'

One World Economic Forum (WEF) panelist had a moment of unprecedented clarity Wednesday in speaking the truth: a 'just transition' cannot happen when imposed on people.

Trade Union Official Veronica Nilsson told WEF members that when "changes are imposed on people," the ‘just transition’ is bound to fail.

"To manage the energy transition … you have to [make] changes with people," she said. "You need their buying … and acceptance of reforms."

Nilsson, who serves as General Secretary of the Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD (TUAC), told the audience to expect better outcomes when that becomes reality.

However, she acknowledged the energy transition from conventional oil and gas will be "very, very difficult" because "a lot of jobs will disappear" with no guarantee they will be replaced promptly or with equivalent pay. Continue…

Elon Musk visits Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp with Ben Shapiro

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This visit aligns with Musk's attendance at the European Jewish Association's annual conference in Krakow, taking place ahead of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27.

Elon Musk, accompanied by his son and notable figures including Ben Shapiro, Rabbi Menachem Margolin and Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on Monday.

The visit, which included a wreath-laying ceremony at the Wall of Death and a service at the Birkenau memorial, was reported by The Forward.

This visit aligns with Musk's attendance at the European Jewish Association's annual conference in Krakow, taking place ahead of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27. Rabbi Margolin, chair of the Brussels-based organization, had extended the invitation to Musk during a livestreamed 'Spaces' call on X focused on antisemitism and free speech. During the call, Musk tentatively agreed to the visit, recognizing its significance in understanding the impact of the Holocaust. Continue…