Shamans predict Trump will oust Maduro in 2026

The predictions encompassed international relations, ongoing global conflicts and the fates of prominent world leaders Cesar Barreto & India Grant Monday 29 December 2025 22:03 GMT

Adorned in traditional Andean ponchos and elaborate headdresses, a group of shamans convened on Monday atop a sacred hill overlooking Peru’s capital city.

The annual ritual saw them perform a ceremony on the treeless San Cristobal hill, where they offered their predictions for the upcoming year, encompassing international relations, ongoing global conflicts and the fates of prominent world leaders.

This year’s prophecies included a significant forecast regarding Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, with the shamans asserting he would be removed from office. They also indicated that global conflicts, such as the protracted war in Ukraine, are set to continue.

Shaman Ana María Simeón elaborated on one key prediction, stating: "We have asked for Maduro to leave, to retire, for President Donald Trump of the United States to be able to remove him, and we have visualized that next year this will happen." The group has a mixed record with its annual predictions.

Last year, they warned a “nuclear war” would break out between Israel and Gaza, where a ceasefire is currently in place.

But inDecember 2023, thegroup correctly predicted that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who had been imprisoned for human rights abuses, would perish within twelve months. Fujimori died from cancer in September 2024 at the age of 86.

Before Monday’s ceremony, the shamans met to drink hallucinogenic concoctions derived from native plants — including Ayahuasca and the San Pedro cactus — which are believed to give them the power to predict the future.

During the ceremony, they placed blankets with yellow flowers, coca leaves,swords and other objects on San Cristobal hill, asking for positive energy for the new year.

After dancing in circles and playing ancestral instruments,the shamans asked for peace in the Middle East, an end to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the fall of President Maduro.

The prayers to the gods, performed amid flowers and incense, as well as dances, are intended to encourage leaders to make good decisions.

The shamans also predicted natural disasters, such as earthquakes and climatic phenomena.

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CNN 1/13/2026

Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome

By Katie Bo Lillis, Natasha Bertrand, Priscilla Alvarez, Jim Sciutto, Zachary Cohen, CNN Updated: 12:58 AM EST, Tue January 13, 20261/2

The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting US spies, diplomats and troops that are colloquially known as Havana Syndrome, according to four sources briefed on the matter.

A division of theDepartment of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, purchased the device for millions of dollars in the waning days of the Biden administration, using funding provided by the Defense Department, according to two of the sources.Officials paid “eight figures” for the device, these people said, declining to offer a more specific number.

The device is still being studied and there is ongoing debate — and in some quarters of government, skepticism — over its link to the roughly dozens of anomalous health incidents that remain officially unexplained.CNN has asked the Pentagon, HSI and the DHS for comment. The CIA declined to comment.

The device acquired by HSI produces pulsed radio waves, one of the sources said, which some officials and academics have speculated for years could be the cause of the incidents. Although the device is not entirely Russian in origin, it contains Russian components, this person added.

Officials have long struggled to understand how a device powerful enough to cause the kind of damage some victims have reported could be made portable; that remains a core question, according to one of the sources briefed on the device. The device could fit in a backpack, this person said.

The acquisition of the device has reignited a painful and contentious debate within the US government about Havana Syndrome, known officially as “anomalous health episodes.”

The mysterious illness first emerged in late 2016, when a cluster of US diplomats stationed in the Cuban capital of Havana began reporting symptoms consistent with head trauma, including vertigo and extreme headaches. In subsequent years, there have been cases reported around the world.

In the subsequent decade the intelligence community and the Defense Department have sought to understand if those officials were the victims of some kind of directed energy attack by a foreign government — with senior intelligence officials saying publicly that there wasn’t enough evidence to support that conclusion and victims arguing that the US government has gaslit them and ignored important evidence that Russia was attacking American government officials.

Still, defense officials considered their findings serious enough that they briefed the House and Senate Intelligence Committees late last year, including reference to the acquired device and its testing.

One key concern now for some officials is that if the technology proves viable it may have proliferated, several of the sources said, meaning that more than one country could now have access to a device that may be capable of causing career-ending injuries to US officials.

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CNN was not able to learn where — or from whom — HSI purchased the device, but HSI has a history of collaboration with the Defense Department for operations that take place all over the globe. The office has broad jurisdiction to investigate crimes linked to customs violations, including investigations into the proliferation of US-controlled technology or expertise overseas.

Those investigations are “the single biggest collaboration point between HSI and the US military,” according to a former Homeland Security official.

For example, when the US military came across US technology in Afghanistan or Iraq that raised questions about how those components came to the region, it would turn to HSI, according to the official.

It was also not clear how the US government learned of the existence of the device in order to purchase it. Havana Syndrome — and its cause — have remained frustratingly opaque to both the intelligence community and the medical community.

One problem facing the medical community is that there is still not a clear definition of “anomalous health incidents” or AHIs. Tests were done, in some cases, long after symptoms began, making it harder to understand what physically happened.

In 2022, an intelligence panel investigating the cause of AHIs said thatsome of the episodes could “plausibly” have been caused by “pulsed electromagnetic energy” emitted by an external source.

But in 2023, the intelligence community said publiclythat it could not link any cases to a foreign adversary, ruling it unlikely that the unexplained illness was the result of a targeted campaign by an enemyof the US. As recently as January of 2025,the broader intelligence community assessment remained that it was very unlikely that the symptoms were caused by a foreign actor— even as an official with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence emphasized that analysts cannot “rule out” the possibility in some small number of cases.

That stance has long incensed victims, many of whom believe strongly that intelligence exists offering black-and-white evidence that Russia is behind their symptoms, some of which have been severe enough to force retirement.

Some current and former CIA officers have raised concerns that the agency soft-pedaled its investigation, CNN has previously reported.

The acquisition of the device has been treated by some victims as potential vindication.

“If the [US government] has indeed uncovered such devices, then the CIA owes all the victims a f**king major and public apology for how we have been treated as pariahs,”Marc Polymeropoulos, one of the first CIA officers to go public with injuries he says he sustained in an attack in Moscow in 2017, said in a statement to CNN.

CNN’s Kylie Atwood contributed to this story.

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PRETTY AMAZING, THEY ARE NOT BLAMING RUSSIA. That seems like it was a gift to Russia!

Iran Is Hunting Down Starlink Users to Stop Protest Videos From Going Global

Video from the streets is one of the few ways of getting information out about the scale of the protests and authorities’ actions By Benoit Faucon Jan. 12, 2026 11:00 pm ET1/2

Protesters blocking a street during a demonstration in Tehran, Iran, at night with a fire burning on the right.

Iranians are using Elon Musk’s Starlink service to share protest videos globally, despite government jamming and confiscation efforts.Iran has intensified efforts to jam Starlink, which is banned, leading authorities to search for and confiscate dishes in western Tehran.

The internet shutdown, implemented after protests over an economic crisis, has further affected Iranian businesses already facing sanctions and inflation.

Iranians are using Elon Musk’s Starlink service to share protest videos globally, despite government jamming and confiscation efforts.With the government shutting down the internet and throttling phone services, Iranians are leaning heavily on Elon Musk’s Starlink service to share videos of growing protests and the regime’s escalating crackdown with the world.

But Iran has intensified efforts to jam the service, which is banned in the country,and users are being hunted.

Over the weekend, authorities began searching for and confiscating Starlink dishes in western Tehran, said Amir Rashidi, director of digital rights and security at Miaan Group, a U.S. nonprofit opposed to internet censorship.

“It’s electronic warfare,”Rashidi said. He said disruptions are worst in parts of Tehran where protests are taking place and in the evening, when the demonstrators gather.

The battle over information—while secondary to the confrontations taking place nightly in dozens of cities across Iran—has potentially serious consequences. President Trump has threatened to intervene in response to a crackdown by the regime.

Video from the streets is one of the few ways of getting information out about the scale of the protests and the actions of Iranian authorities.

More than 500 people have been killed in the unrest, according to the group Human Rights Activists in Iran. Another rights group, Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, circulated video footage Sunday showing a large number of bodies at a morgue in south Tehran. (Another outlet reported up to 12,000 people have been killed. You know how we have 1,000s of satellites going around the world and they can capture the bugs on the ground, so Iran killing their citizens will have country torturers pictures taken.)

Trump is scheduled to be briefed Tuesday on his options.One under discussion is to send in more Starlink terminals. Trump said he would ask Musk about the possibility.“We may get the internet going if that’s possible,” Trump told the reporters.

Iran shut down most internet connections for the country’s 90 million inhabitants late last week, after protests over a crippling economic crisis exploded into large-scale unrest with demonstrators chanting for an end to the regime.The government has also made it difficult to connect calls or send text messages(I’m sure the US has a weapon from preventing them to cut it off.)

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The only exceptions are the government itself, its media services and regime loyalists who are registered on a “whitelist” of internet addresses, said diplomats and others communicating with some of those with uninterrupted access.

In one message Sunday, the government told people to rely on news from the Mehr agency, which is affiliated with the security services. Another text called on Iranians to join a pro-government demonstration Monday at the University of Tehran, a stronghold of recent protests. “The Iran government invites the people to join a demonstration in support of the regime and against US & Israel,” it said. (KEK what a bunch of idiots)

The rest of the country relies on Starlink to send out footage of the demonstrations. “It is the only way,” said Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, co-founder of Iran Human Rights, both based in Norway. He said he received footage of protests in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city by population.

A user in Tehran, who spoke to The Wall Street Journal through a Starlink connection early Sunday,said he had uploaded protest videos taken by relatives. He then sent them to third parties abroad who posted them on social media. People who have Starlinks don’t let it be known and only upload videos to people they trust, he said over his crackling and distorted Starlink connection.

The government’s efforts to interrupt the service have slowed down Starlink access but haven’t stopped it, said Mehdi Yahyanejad, co-founder and board director at NetFreedom Pioneers. The U.S. group helps people in authoritarian nations get access to the internet.When Iranian users get good connections, often in the morning or midday, they transmit as many videos as they can, Yahyanejad said.

Starlink terminals are illegal in Iran and had to be smuggled in, often on small boats from Dubai or across the border from Iraqi Kurdistan.They started to show up in big numbers at the end of the last big wave of protests in 2022, when Musk said his company would seek an exemption to sanctions for his terminals.

Yahyanejad said his organization, NetFreedom, sent thousands of Starlink kits to nonprofits in the country. Others were brought in via commercial intermediaries.

Iran has pushed the U.S. through the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, to ban Starlink service within its territory.The U.S. and Starlink have resisted enforcing the ban beyond cutting off terminals identified by Iran.

The internet shutdown is deepening the economic crisis that triggered the protests.Businesses in Iran—already struggling with sanctions, inflation and now widespread strikes—have been hit by the loss of online services and the frequent interruption of domestic calls, Iranians abroad who have spoken to their contacts in Iran said.

“Because there is no email, their business is at standstill,” Rashidi said.

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Remember the Obama's movie about wars in America.I'm positive that would have happened in the US if Kamala got elected, and OBAMA took over, the Democrats want angrily to shut up MAGA and all American's! Could you imagine, we'd be having war in the US in every city and state. Dems still dream about that now.