Pizzasteuer, Bodyshaming-Gedenktag, Bürgergeld-Streik und mehr
Schleswig-Holsteins Ministerpräsident Daniel Günther drängt seine Kollegen, eine Steuer auf gezuckerte Lebensmittel einzuführen. Bremen und Hamburg zeigen sich bereit, die Bundesratsinitiative zu unterstützen, wenn gleichzeitig eine Abgabe auf Social-Media-Produkte erfolge.
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Space Time – The Chicken or the Egg?
Posted Jan 5, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
Dear Mr.Armstrong,
Do you think of cycles and time as the same thing and interchangeable? Is it time that defines the architecture of a cycle or a cycle that characterises what we know as time? A
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Donald Trump, and Most Americans, Do Not Understand the Monroe Doctrine
4 January 2026 by Larry C. Johnson
I want to make you a wager… I bet that 99% of Americans have never read the speech that President James Monroe made to the US Congress on December 2, 1823. As part of that speech — which was the seventh annual address to the US Congress — President Monroe outlined a policy that is now commonly ……………………….
https://sonar21.com/donald-trump-and-most-americans-do-not-understand-the-monroe-doctrine/
Nach Terroranschlag: Komplexe Reparaturen nötig
Von Holger Douglas Mo, 5. Januar 2026
50.000 Wohnungen im Dunkeln, ohne Licht, ohne Heizung, betroffen mehrere hunderttausend Menschen. Die Reparatur der Kabel ist ein Akt der Ingenieurskunst: Unter Zeitdruck und hochgefährlich.
Symbolbild: Baumaschinen stehen während eines Stromausfalls im Südwesten Berlins auf einer …………………………
https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/nach-terroranschlag-komplexe-reparaturen-noetig/
Venezuela’s path to freedom It is menaced by colonels, cartels — and Trump
Juan David Rojas 4 Jan 2026
Twenty-six years to the day after Manuel Noriega’s surrender in Panama, US authorities executed a spectacular capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. At 2 a.m., a series of explosions were heard in the capital city of Caracas. Hours later, Maduro was in handcuffs en route to the Southern District of ………………………….
https://unherd.com/2026/01/venezuelas-path-to-freedom/?
Linksterrorismus: Ein Protokoll des Staatsversagens
So, 4. Januar 2026
Linker Terrorismus legt in Berlins Südwesten zehntausende Haushalte lahm, Menschen müssen in Eiseskälte und Dunkelheit ausharren. Was tun Wegner, Bundesregierung, Sicherheitsbehörden? Seit Jahren wächst und gedeiht eine linksextreme Täterstruktur, ohne jede Konsequenz. Gegen „rechts“ ist ……………………….
https://www.tichyseinblick.de/meinungen/protokoll-staatsversagen/
Did Trump Steal Venezuela in Order To Use Its Oil To Pay U.S. Government’s Debts?
By Eric Zuesse Eric’s Substack January 5, 2026
Peter Haenseler (whom I normally don’t even mention because he doesn’t link to or otherwise cite any ……………………….
If We Have the Balls to Enforce it, Our Constitution Will Destroy the Financing of Communalism and the Deep State; the Alternative is Civil War and Dystopia.
By Andrew Wallace January 5, 2026
Reality has demonstrated that most of our people are ignorant, apathetic and indolent when it comes to government. I contend that most of our people will support freedom and not Communalism, when faced with the facts.
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Neocons Premature Celebration Over Protests in Iran
By Larry C. Johnson January 5, 2026
Western media, especially those outlets firmly aligned with the neoconservative view, are quick to jump on reports of protests in Iran as a sign that the Islamic Republic of Iran is about to implode. Events today in Iran provided another spurt of arousal among neocons longing to bring back the Shah and eliminate the …………………….
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/no_author/neocons-premature-celebration-over-protests-in-iran/
Caesar or Christ: Who Can Save Europe?
In the dire civilization-ending circumstances we are in, it’s tempting to grasp onto anything or anyone that would promise a way out, but Catholics should remember: Christ is the only way.
By Joseph Pearce Crisis Magazine
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/no_author/caesar-or-christ-who-can-save-europe/
Video: Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Attacks Venezuela & Kidnaps President Maduro
By Glenn Diesen January 5, 2026
The Peace President Goes to War
By Paul Craig Roberts PaulCraigRoberts.org January 5, 2026
The White House says that the trump administration has kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife and has brought them to the US where they will be put on trial for narco-terrorism. The narcotics charge is a cover for renewed looting of Venezuela’s national resources, just as Saddam Hussein’s alleged ………………………..
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/paul-craig-roberts/the-peace-president-goes-to-war/
St. Thomas Aquinas, Chesterton, and the Lunacy of the Modern World
By Boyd D. Cathey January 5, 2026
There is an old saying that “Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make [go] mad.” In its original form the phrase appears to date back more than two millennia, to at least the Greek playwright Sophocles. ……………..
LRC – The Year White Guilt Died
By Allan Stevo January 5, 2026
There was a time I witnessed something strange. It kept happening, too.
For a period, I spent much of each year in Europe. I traveled by train, in that era before low-cost airlines. Long-distance train travel unites strangers in a way puddle-jumpers do not.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/allan-stevo/lrc-the-year-white-guilt-died/
We All See What Washington Is Doing
By Karen Kwiatkowski January 5, 2026
After the 2024 Israeli program to booby trap commercial pagers, sell them to Hezbollah, and conduct a set of denotations that killed and maimed over 3,280 people, 60 Minutes interviewed a supposed Mossad agent who explained how the world works. “We write the screenplay, we are the main actors, and the world is our stage.”
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/karen-kwiatkowski/we-all-see-what-washington-is-doing/
Why We Need the Gold Standard
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. January 5, 2026
Everybody knows we need sound money; but what exactly is sound money? A good way to answer this question is to consult the works of the two greatest economists of the twentieth century, Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. I am proud of the fact that Mises’s widow, the unforgettable Margit von Mises, warmly approved of the Mises Institute when I founded it in 1982, and proud that Murray was our ………………….
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/lew-rockwell/why-we-need-the-gold-standard/
Major Questions Finally Answered About Trump’s Venezuelan Adventure
Simplicius Jan 05, 2026
The questions we raised in yesterday’s piece have finally been answered by the Trump administration itself. The main and most important was what exactly is the real situation in Venezuela vis-a-vis US control? Was the Maduro grab an isolated event, with the US not actually in control of anything on the ………………
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/major-questions-finally-answered?
Why Did Trump Really Take Venezuela? It Wasn’t Just Oil!
Posted Jan 4, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
You said these podcasts that Venezuela had the oil but the big question is China. Would like to expand on that now? Socrates showed the dollar taking off in October 2024 and the fourth quarter was a turning point. But it now shows volatility rising from February on. It looks like this is not over as you say until the fat lady sings.
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What’s The U.S. Follow Up Action After Taking Maduro Out?
Last night the U.S. bombed several places in Venezuela. The bomb attacks were likely planned to hit air-defense systems. But several targets were purely administrative government places and one was a mausoleum with Hugo Chavez’s body.
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https://www.moonofalabama.org/
Maduros Festnahme und die völkerrechtliche Legitimation
Von Joachim Nikolaus Steinhöfel • Die Festnahme des venezolanischen Machthabers Nicolás Maduro durch die USA schlägt hohe Wellen. Anwalt Joachim Steinhöfel behandelt hier die Fage: Verstößt der Vorgang gegen das Völkerrecht?
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https://www.achgut.com/artikel/maduros_festnahme_und_die_voelkerrechtliche_legitimation
Martin Armstrong Video: 1996 Tax Reform and Debt Crisis
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrong-in-the-media/1996-tax-reform-and-debt-crisis/?
The End Of The Petrodollar: The Real Reason For The Venezuela Raid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnLnRkcikw
Pretense, Staging, Expediency: the „Solutions“ That Implode the Whole Shebang
January 1, 2026
Slapdash quick fixes and policies share one characteristic: they eventually implode the whole shebang.
We all know how this works: the business is failing and the divorce papers have been filed, but the optics are ugly, so the couple waltzes in, all smiles and lovey-dovey, for who wants to explain how it all ……………………..
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan26/pretense1-26.html
Blackbox KW 1 – Führungswechsel in Venezuela
Von Stephen Paetow So, 4. Januar 2026
Nicolas Maduro ist auf dem Weg in die USA, die Qualitätspresse kann Sachsen-Anhalts AfD-Chef nicht länger ignorieren, und der CSU droht das AfD-Schicksal, wenn es nach SPD-Justizministerin Hubig geht. Ach, übrigens, von Sparkassen-Schließfächern wird dringend abgeraten…
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https://www.tichyseinblick.de/kolumnen/blackbox/kw-1-fuehrungswechsel-in-venezuela/#google_vignette
Trump’s Golden Hour: Historically Flawless Military Masterclass or Just Another Theatrical Production?
For the Sake of US Supremacy: It Doesn’t Much Matter
Simplicius Jan 04, 2026
Well, Trump has done it. He has launched the long awaited ground operation in Venezuela, culminating in the alleged capture of Maduro, pictured below on the USS Iwo Jima:
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https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trumps-golden-hour-historically-flawless?
Carol Quigly and the basis for a technocratic one-world government – Audiobook – Tragedy And Hope 101 – Joe Plummer
https://odysee.com/@thegreaterconversation:b/Tragedy-And-Hope-101-Full-Audiobook:4
The Left must embrace freedom – Notions of fairness and equality won’t cut it
Yanis Varoufakis 3 Jan 2026
The new year has dawned on a world that is hurtling towards a new Dark Age. Technologies that could free us from drudgery, poverty and environmental collapse instead make life worse for most people in most countries. The great humanist ideologies that drove social change over the past three centuries now lie in ruins, with fascist tropes making an energetic comeback among those with the most to lose. Amid all ……………………
https://unherd.com/2026/01/how-the-left-can-triumph/?
2026 wird das Jahr der Klärung – und es geht brutal los
Von Roland Tichy So, 4. Januar 2026
Nach einem mutmaßlichem Terroranschlag auf das Stromnetz frieren Menschen in 50.000 Haushalten Berlins; Plünderungen drohen. Deutschland hat das Wachsen des Terrors verharmlost und befördert. Straßen und Plätzen, Silvester und Weihnachten sind Brennpunkte der Brutalität – totales Staatsversagen.
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https://www.tichyseinblick.de/tichys-einblick/2026-jahr-der-klaerung/
Trump Invades Venezuela
Posted Jan 3, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
What a way to start the new year with fireworks. And they waited for the markets to be closed to do it. How considerate of them.
Could this be seen as the start of an attack on China? Or at least an instigation? EM
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https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/war/trump-invades-venezuela/?
Die EU verkommt zum Dogma
Von Wolfgang Herles Sa, 3. Januar 2026
Wer die EU kritisiert, landet im rechten Eck, wer sie preist, gilt als Feind der Demokratie – so wird Europa zum Dogma. Während Brüssel Wohlstand verspielt und sich zum Superstaat aufschwingt, rückt die Meinungsfreiheit unter Kuratel. Zeit, die EU vom Kopf auf die Beine zu stellen.
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https://www.tichyseinblick.de/kolumnen/herles-faellt-auf/die-eu-verkommt-zum-dogma/
Targeting Putin and New Year Celebrations… Western War Psychosis in Desperation Mode
Strategic Culture January 3, 2026
The sick cynicism of the NeoNazi Kiev regime and its Western sponsors knows no depth.
Earlier this week, in the early hours of December 29, Russia claimed that the NATO proxy regime had launched a large-scale drone attack aiming to assassinate President Vladimir Putin. Western political ……………………….
What Is Worse Than Donald Trump?
By Philip Giraldi The Unz Review January 3, 2026
Even when you begin to think that it can’t get any worse with Donald J. Trump as President of the United States the Orangeman does something that is so stupid and so reflective of a man who thinks only about …………………….
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/phil-giraldi/what-is-worse-than-donald-trump/
Gen. Michael Flynn Asks Trump to Hold the Deep State Accountable in 2026
By Paul Dragu The New American January 3, 2026
It’s been 13 months since voters reelected Donald Trump. To say they voted for change is an understatement.
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Hollywood in 2026?
Posted Jan 3, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
Those who attended the 2025 World Economic Conference know that I have agreed to participate in a Hollywood film on my life. Everything is still in the works. I will provide more information once it becomes available, but I expect big news in the year ahead. Fortune and fame have never allured me or ………………………..
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/armstrong-in-the-media/hollywood-in-2026/?
US and Israel Prepping for a New Attack on Iran by Creating a Narrative of Government Chaos
3 January 2026 by Larry C. Johnson
Was it just a coincidence that as Donald Trump met last Monday with Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu to discuss a future attack against Iran that protests, some accompanied by violence, broke out in several cities in ………………………….
Gold vs Fiat
Posted Jan 2, 2026 by Martin Armstrong |
Some claim that gold and silver are skyrocketing in terms of fiat currency prices because of the realization that fiat currencies are failing – mainly due to high inflation and unpayable national, corporate and personal debt. All fiat currencies eventually fail. Only precious metals have retained, on average, a ………………………..
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/uncategorized/gold-vs-fiat/?
John Helmer Explains the Peace Negotiations
By Paul Craig Roberts PaulCraigRoberts.org January 3, 2026
In this interview by Nima of John Helmer on Dialogue Works, Helmer presents much detailed information that probably tasks the understanding of most Americans. Nevertheless, he makes two very important points and one is that it is not yet known whether the drone attack was an attack on Putin’s ……………………….
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2026/01/paul-craig-roberts/john-helmer-explains-the-peace-negotiations/
Der neue Kernenergie-Purzelbaum der CSU
Von Manfred Haferburg • Die CSU war erst für die Kernenergie, dann für den Ausstieg, dann wieder für den Weiterbetrieb der letzten Kernkraftwerke, zuletzt wurden in ihrem Herrschaftsgebiet dennoch Kühltürme gesprengt. Und nun fordert sie plötzlich „den Turnaround bei der Kernforschung“. Wer soll das noch ernst nehmen?
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https://www.achgut.com/artikel/der_neue_kernenergie_purzelbaum_der_csu
Hammerbande-Prozess im Hochsicherheits-Trakt
Von Peter Hemmelrath • In Düsseldorf beginnt am 13. Januar der Prozess gegen sechs mutmaßliche Mitglieder der wegen ihrer Brutalität berüchtigten „Hammerbande“. Die linksextreme Szene macht bereits seit Wochen mobil. Zum Verhandlungsbeginn soll eine Antifa-Kundgebung vor dem Gerichtsgebäude stattfinden.
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https://www.achgut.com/artikel/hammerbande_prozess_im_hochsicherheitstrakt
SITREP 1/2/26: Odessa Pressure Peaks, as Zelensky Announces Major Senior Staff Reshuffle
Simplicius Jan 03, 2026
MSM rags are beginning to cover the ‘urgent’ situation surrounding Ukraine’s Odessa, which I had alluded to in the last article. Ukraine hit a few Russian ships and Russia’s escalation has been shutting Odessa down to the point where the MSM is beginning to mutter about the potential of it being completely cut off from the sea:
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https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-1226-odessa-pressure-peaks?
