The 91-drone attack on the presidential residence in Novgorod region was an extremely dangerous provocation. And one that “could not have been carried out without the participation of European hawks" because "Zelensky would not have dared to plan or carry out such an operation on his own,” military expert Alexey Leonkov told Sputnik.

Intricate planning was required, and the timing – while Zelensky was in the US for talks with Trump, was designed to give him an alibi, “which he is now using, claiming Ukraine had nothing to do with it,” Leonkov said. 

The provocation “wasn’t simply an attack on the president,” the observer emphasized. “It was a strike on a nuclear weapons control center, as each such residence contains communications nodes through which the head of state can issue the command to use the country’s nuclear forces.”

President Donald Trump warned the US could carry out further military strikes against Iran if it attempts to rebuild its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. He made the remarks to journalists alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Monday.

Trump threatens to ‘knock the hell’ out of Iran
The US president has indicated he would support Israeli military action if Tehran rebuilds its nuclear program

The niece of Bondi victim Boris Tetleroyd has labelled Anthony Albanese a “coward” after the prime minister again rejected calls for a federal royal commission into Australia’s worst domestic terror attack.

The prime minister has claimed such a public inquiry would needlessly promote hate speech.

Jenny Roytur, whose cousin Yaakov was also shot in the attack, said the Jewish community deserved to know why antisemitism had escalated so quickly and why authorities had ignored warnings. Her family was signatory to an open letter from 17 families demanding answers and accountability from the government, alongside a Commonwealth royal commission.

‘He’s a coward’: Niece of Bondi victim lashes PM over royal commission
By Nick Newling, Angus Thomson, Brittany Busch and Rob Harris

London: When your next-door neighbour is the King, it’s a good idea to keep your head down, hints Roger Young, a Flitcham villager. Otherwise, it might just be a case of off with it.

“You can expect to see me hung,” the 87-year-old says after he agrees, following some hesitation, to stop and talk. “Hung, drawn and quartered,” adds his wife, Patsy, 86.

They are not the first people in this pretty Domesday Book village, which forms part of the monarch’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, whom we approached in the hope of a brief chat.

But there is a distinct sense of nervousness. Most decline to speak at all, politely swinging wreathed doors closed, or leaving us standing on doormats that are adorned with pheasant motifs.

Venezuela has already survived years of economic warfare. Despite two decades of sweeping U.S. sanctions designed to strangle its economy, the country has found ways to adapt: oil has moved through alternative markets; communities have developed survival strategies; people have endured shortages and hardship with creativity and resilience. This endurance is precisely what the Trump administration is trying to break.

Rather than launching a military invasion that would provoke public backlash and congressional scrutiny, Trump is doubling down on something more insidious: total economic asphyxiation. By tightening restrictions on Venezuelan oil exports, its primary source of revenue, Trump’s administration is deliberately pushing the country toward a full-scale humanitarian collapse.

It’s been 20 years since I retired from the Air Force and 40 years since I first entered Cheyenne Mountain, America’s nuclear redoubt at the southern end of the Front Range that includes Pikes Peak in Colorado. So it was with some nostalgia that I read a recent memo from General Kenneth Wilsbach, the new Chief of Staff of the Air Force (CSAF).

Apocalypse Soon?
Returning a Final Time to Cheyenne Mountain
BY WILLIAM J. ASTORE

Russia will revise its “negotiating position” in the Ukraine talks in light of an attempted drone attack on President Vladimir Putin’s state residence, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stated.

In a statement on Monday, the diplomat said that on the night of December 28-29, “the Kiev regime launched a terrorist attack, using 91 long-range strike unmanned aerial vehicles on the state residence of the president of the Russian Federation in Novgorod Region.” According to Lavrov, all 91 UAVs were intercepted, with no reports of casualties or material damage on the ground.

Lavrov emphasized that the failed attack on the president’s residence came at a time when Russian and US representatives were engaged in “intensive negotiations.”

Who is Susan Miller? She is a recently retired CIA officer who entered on duty in September 1985, began her career in the Directorate of Intelligence and then, sometime after 1989, changed her career path and moved to the Directorate of Operations, where she spent most of career, including a stint as the Chief of Station in Israel. How do I know this? Well, not only am I relying on press reports…

Why is Susan Miller Doing Media?

 by Larry C. Johnson

Susan and I were in the same Career Trainee (CT) class. I will let Perplexity tell you about the CT program:

The telephone conversation between the Russian and US presidents was held at the initiative of the US side, and lasted 1 hour and 15 minutes, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said.

Key takeaways:

— Trump wanted to discuss a number of issues ahead of his meeting with Zelensky

— The tone of the Putin-Trump call was friendly, constructive, and business-like

— Trump strongly pushed the idea of ending the conflict as soon as possible

— Trump was convinced the Russia seeks a political and diplomatic settlement to the crisis. "It is with this in mind that he intends to structure today's negotiations with Zelensky," Ushakov said

— Ukraine was urged to promptly make a decision on the Donbass, taking into account existing realities on the front

BREATHING THE AIR INSIDE A MICROWAVE OVEN ISN'T GOING TO KILL YOU... BECAUSE YOU CANNOT CLOSE THE DOOR... SHOULD YOU BE ABLE TO CLOSE THE DOOR AND TURN THE MACHINE ON, YOU WILL BOIL TO DEATH... THIS IS WHAT MANY PEOPLE DO NOT UNDERSTAND. DENIALISTS OF GLOBAL WARMING ARE THUS DANGEROUS...

THE "TINY" QUANTITY OF CO2 AFFECTED BY SPECIFIC SOLAR WAVELENGTH EMISSIONS — LIKE WATER IS IN A MICROWAVE OVEN [SAY PLACE A METAL SPOON INSIDE THE BLITHER AND IT COULD "EXPLODE"] — IS THE MAIN DRIVER OF CLIMATIC CONDITIONS IN THE EVOLVING DYNAMICS OF THE PLANET THAT INCLUDE THE VARIATIONS OF THE MILANKOVICH CYCLES.

HERE FOLLOWS A TON OF FAULTY ARGUMENTS IN A DENIALIST ARTICLE BY SOMEONE WHO HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD ANYTHING ABOUT THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL WARMING...

There is a moment in every civilization’s collapse when the instruments of its destruction become visible to those paying attention. We are living in that moment now. But the warning signs are not carved in stone or written in prophecy—they are embedded in source code, amplified by algorithms, and funded by men who speak openly of human extinction while racing to cause it.

Palantir's Palestine: How AI Gods Are Building Our Extinction
The machines are not coming for us. They are already here. And the men who control them have made their intentions terrifyingly clear.

BY BETTBEAT MEDIA

NATO boss, Mark Rutte, says that Western Europe could be heading toward a war with Russia “like our grandparents experienced.” Which implies that he has a phenomenal memory of World War II, 80 years ago. This is especially impressive coming from a man known in the Netherlands, where he spent fourteen years as Prime Minister – until last year – for routinely insisting that he couldn’t remember what he did just the week before.

NATO’s scandal-ridden boss wants war with Russia to be his next train wreck
Mark Rutte is trying to invoke history against Russia – bold move for someone with such a selective memory of his own scandals

BY Rachel Marsden

On its final day, St. Anna's is almost full again. A choir is singing and the small organ is supporting them. But this is the last mass in the small Catholic church in Gildehaus, a district of Bad Bentheim near the German-Dutch border. In future, the building will no longer be a place of worship.

Germany's empty churches repurposed as congregations shrink

Axel Rowohlt | Christoph Strack

The number of practicing Christians in Germany is falling. The result is surplus churches. What happens to these empty houses of worship?

SPOILER: THEY BECOME BICYCLE [MADE IN CHINA?] SHOPS.....

In 2020, Dutch lawyer Arno Van Kessel realized that Covid-19 was being used by governments to exercise malign influence on populations and began vocally opposing both the Dutch government's pandemic response measures and the subsequent Covid-19 'vaccines'.

Despite Lawyer's Detention Under Accusation of 'Terrorism', Landmark Covid-19 Lawsuit Pending Before District Court in The Netherlands

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